HMS Velox
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HMS Velox was a turbine-powered torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy built on speculation in 1901-04 by engineering firm Parsons Marine, with the hull subcontracted to Hawthorn Leslie and Company at Hebburn on the River Tyne. Velox served in the First World War, being sunk by striking a mine in 1915.
1902
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HMS Python
Royal Navy, R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company,
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1902 HMS Velox
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ship commissioning
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keel laying
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ship launching
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| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| link | page | Dreadnought Project page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | naval-history.net page@ | Wikidata | ||
| commons | image | HMS Velox, postcard, Photographer Ernest Hopkins of Southsea | Commons | ||
| commons | image | HMS Velox TBD | Commons | ||
| commons | image | The Steam Turbine, 1911 - Fig 41 - First set of Combination Machinery — in H.M.S. 'Velox.' | Commons | ||


