An item reported that the British turbine driven destroyer HMS Eden was to be fitted out with 3 large screws instead of 6 smaller screws connected with her three shafts while it was believed that she would achieve better performance results. (1)
Note
1. Part of the Hawthorn Leslie type River-classs destroyers, ordered under the 1901-1902 Naval Estimates, laid down by R.W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company Limited, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England on 12 June 1902, launched on 13 March 1903, commissioned in June 1904 and lost in a collision with the transport France in the English Channel on 18 June 1916.
Note
1. Part of the Hawthorn Leslie type River-classs destroyers, ordered under the 1901-1902 Naval Estimates, laid down by R.W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company Limited, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England on 12 June 1902, launched on 13 March 1903, commissioned in June 1904 and lost in a collision with the transport France in the English Channel on 18 June 1916.
