An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau reporting that the British destroyer HMS Coquette was shaking that much that at a speed of 21 miles her crew had to go below deck. She seemed to be built to weakly.(1)
Note
1. Building ordered under the 1896-1897 Naval Estimates, laid down by John I. Thornycroft, Chiswick, England with yard number 319 on 8 June 1896, launched on 25 November 1897, commissioned in January 1899 and lost after striking a mine of the German submarine UC-10 in the North Sea on 7 March 1916.
Note
1. Building ordered under the 1896-1897 Naval Estimates, laid down by John I. Thornycroft, Chiswick, England with yard number 319 on 8 June 1896, launched on 25 November 1897, commissioned in January 1899 and lost after striking a mine of the German submarine UC-10 in the North Sea on 7 March 1916.
