Sister ship Fame. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Built as a thirty-knotter two funnel torpedo boat destroyer under the 1894-1895 shipbuilding programme. The British Admiralty just supplied broad requirements, the detailed design was made by the shipyard. After 30 September 1913 assigned to the D-class. Sister ships Fame, Desperate and Foam with the Mallard ordered on 30 May 1895. Ordered on 10 May 1895, laid down by John I. Thornycroft, Chiswick, England with yard number 305 on 1 June 1895, launched on 15 February 1895, commissioned in February 1897, laid up in 1919 and sold to be broken up on 20 May 1902.
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