An item referred to the magazine Engineering reporting the launching of the British destroyer Handy, the first one built by the Fairfield Company for account of the Royal British Navy. She had extreme nice lines and shape and as dimensions 194’ x 10’4.5”x 5’7”. The engines were of the usual triple expansion design. She was fitted out with Thornycroft water tube boilers. Another destroyer built by the same firm was to be fitted out with a Babcock&Wilcox water tube boiler of which type the expectations were quite high.
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1. Of the Handy-class consisting of the Handy, Hart and Hunter, preceded by the Conflict-class and succeeded by the Sunfish-class. Laid down at Govan, Scotland on 7 June 1894, launched on 9 March 1895, commissioned in October 1895 and sold at Hong Kong in 1916.
