Subclass of the A-class destroyers
Three "Rocket"-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy.
Under the 1893–1894 Naval Estimates, the British Admiralty placed orders for 36 torpedo-boat destroyers, all to be capable of , the "27-knotters", as a follow-on to the six prototype "26-knotters" ordered in the previous 1892–1893 Estimates. As was typical for torpedo craft at the time, the Admiralty left detailed design to the builders, laying down only broad requirements.
, and were built by J &amp; G Thomson and launched at Clydebank in 1894. The ships displaced 280 tons, were long and their Normand boilers produced . to give a top speed of . They were armed with one 12-pounder and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 53 officers and men.
In September 1913 the Admiralty re-classed all the surviving 27-knotter destroyers as A Class although this only applied to "Surly" as the other two ships had been sold for scrap in 1912.
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