# Brazen-class destroyer

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 | type                = [Destroyer](/source/Destroyer)
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 | notes               = Re-classified as [C-class destroyers](/source/C_class_destroyer_(1913)) in 1913
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The '''''Brazen'' class''' of 4 torpedo-boat destroyers were built by [J & G Thomson](/source/John_Brown_and_Company) at [Clydebank](/source/Clydebank) in [Glasgow](/source/Glasgow), from 1895 to 1900. They formed part of a general group of over seventy "turtleback" [destroyer](/source/destroyer)s capable of 30 knots built around the end of the 19th and into the start of the 20th century for the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy).

The [Admiralty](/source/British_Admiralty) had specified the general design and specification of the destroyers but left it to the builders to handle the detail.  As a result, although the destroyers were all similarly capable there were differences between them in terms of exact dimensions, type of [boiler](/source/boiler) and [engine](/source/engine)s and the number of [funnel](/source/funnel)s.  They were seaworthy and well built but suffered from being lively which meant they were uncomfortable in heavy seas.  Although specified for 30 knots this was with a light load, and in service 27 knots was normal.

In 1913 all the three-funnelled destroyers were reclassified as [C-class destroyers](/source/C_class_destroyer_(1913)).

==Ships==
{| class=wikitable
!Name
!Launched
!Fate
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|[HMS ''Brazen''](/source/HMS_Brazen_(1896)) 
|3 July 1896
|Broken up in 1919<ref name=BC>{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/brazen_class.htm|title=''Brazen'' class at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk|accessdate=2009-04-03}}</ref>
|- 
|[HMS ''Electra''](/source/HMS_Electra_(1896))
|14 July 1896
|Broken up in 1920<ref name=BC/>
|- 
|[HMS ''Recruit''](/source/HMS_Recruit_(1896)) 
|22 August 1896
|Torpedoed in 1915<ref name=BC/>
|- 
|[HMS ''Vulture''](/source/HMS_Vulture_(1898))
|22 March 1898
|Broken up in 1919<ref name=BC/>
|}

==References==
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{{C class destroyer}}

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Category:Brazen-class destroyers
Category:Destroyer classes
Category:Ship classes of the Royal Navy

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