HMS Vixen (1900)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Vixen
Ordered	1898 – 1898 Naval Estimates
Builder	Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down	7 September 1899
Launched	29 March 1900
Commissioned	March 1902
Decommissioned	1919
Out of service	Laid up in reserve 1919
Fate	17 March 1921 sold to Thos W Ward for breaking at Grays, Essex, on the Thames Estuary
General characteristics
Class and type	Vickers three funnel - 30 knot destroyer
Displacement	355 long tons (361 t) standard; 400 long tons (406 t) full load; 214 ft 3 in (65.30 m) o/a; 20 ft (6.1 m) Beam; 8 ft 5 in (2.57 m) Draught;
Propulsion	4 × Thornycroft water tube boiler; 2 × Vertical Triple Expansion (VTE) steam engines driving 2 shafts producing 6,300 shp (4,700 kW);
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h)
Range	70 tons coal; 1,440 nmi (2,670 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h);
Complement	63 officers and men
Armament	1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I L/40 naval gun on a P Mark I Low angle mount; 5 × QF 6-pdr 8 cwt naval gun L/40 Naval gun on a Mark I* low angle mount; 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes;

HMS Vixen was a Vickers three funnel - 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates. She was the fourth ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1801 for an 18-gun brig sold 1815.

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