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Sunday, 30 December 2018

British destroyer HMS Ferret to be used as target according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1909-1910 no. 8

An item reported that the British destroyer HMS Ferret was to be used a target for 7,6cm shrapnels to obtain more knowledge about the effects of such shells on torpedo vessels.(1)

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1 Of the Ferret-class, laid down by Laird, Son&Co., Birkenhead, England in July 1893, launched on 9 December 1893, completed in March 1895 and sunk as target in 1911.