HMS Velox

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.

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HMS Python
C-class destroyer, Viper-class destroyer, destroyer, R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Royal Navy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 

• Dreadnought Project page^@
• naval-history.net page^@
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ship commissioning

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keel laying

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ship launching

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Frameless

HMS Velox, postcard, Photographer Ernest Hopkins of Southsea

HMS Velox TBD

The Steam Turbine, 1911 - Fig 41 - First set of Combination Machinery — in H.M.S. 'Velox.'

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
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