An item referred to the Engineering reporting that at Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, England the destroyer Thrasher on 5th November was launched. She was the third of her kind ordered in May 1894 with the fourth one the Virago the be launched on 19th November.(1)
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1. Of the Quail-class consisting of the Quail, Sparrowhawk, Thrasher and Virago. Launched at Laird, Son&Co., Birkenhead, England with yard number 608 on 30 May 1895, launched on 5 November 1895, commissioned in June 1897 and sold to be broken up on 4 November 1919.
Note
1. Of the Quail-class consisting of the Quail, Sparrowhawk, Thrasher and Virago. Launched at Laird, Son&Co., Birkenhead, England with yard number 608 on 30 May 1895, launched on 5 November 1895, commissioned in June 1897 and sold to be broken up on 4 November 1919.
