HMS Hazard (1894)

50°43′37″N 01°03′14″W / 50.72694°N 1.05389°W / 50.72694; -1.05389

Hazard
History
United Kingdom
Name	Hazard
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	1 December 1892
Launched	14 February 1894
Commissioned	24 July 1895
Fate	Sunk in collision on 28 January 1918
General characteristics
Class and type	Dryad-class torpedo gunboat
Displacement	1,070 tons
Length	262 ft 6 in (80.0 m)
Beam	30 ft 6 in (9.3 m)
Draught	13 ft (4.0 m)
Installed power	3,500 ihp (2,600 kW)
Propulsion	2 × 3-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines Locomotive boilers Twin screws
Speed	18.2 knots (33.7 km/h; 20.9 mph)
Complement	120
Armament	2 × QF 4.7-inch (12 cm) guns 4 × 6-pounder guns 1 × Nordenfelt machine gun 5 × 18-inch torpedo tubes On conversion to a minesweeper in 1914 two torpedo tubes were removed

The sixth HMS Hazard was a Dryad-class torpedo gunboat of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1894 and was converted into the world's first submarine depot ship in 1901. She collided with the submarine A3 on 2 February 1912, killing 14 men, and was herself sunk in collision with SS Western Australia on 28 January 1918.