HMS Thrasher (1895)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Thrasher
Builder	Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead
Yard number	608
Laid down	30 May 1895
Launched	5 November 1895
Commissioned	June 1897
Fate	Sold for disposal, 1919
General characteristics
Class and type	Quail-class destroyer
Displacement	355 long tons (361 t) light 415 long tons (422 t) full load
Length	218 ft (66 m)
Beam	21 ft 6 in (6.55 m)
Draught	9 ft 6 in (2.90 m)
Propulsion	Triple expansion steam engines Coal-fired Normand boilers 6,300 hp (4,698 kW)
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	63
Armament	1 × QF 12-pounder gun, 5 × 6-pounder guns, 2 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Thrasher was a "thirty-knotter" torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed by Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, in 1897. One of four Quail-class destroyers (later classed as part of the B-class), she served in the First World War, sinking the German submarine UC-39 in 1917, and was sold off after hostilities ended.