HMS Leopard (1897)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Leopard
Ordered	1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates
Builder	Barrow Shipbuilding Company and Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down	10 June 1896
Launched	20 March 1897
Commissioned	July 1899
Out of service	Laid up in reserve 1919
Fate	10 June 1919 sold to J. Jackson for breaking
General characteristics
Class and type	Vickers three funnel - 30 knot destroyer[1]
Displacement	350 long tons (356 t) standard 400 long tons (406 t) full load 214 ft 3 in (65.30 m) o/a 20 ft (6.1 m) Beam 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) Draught
Propulsion	4 × Thornycroft water tube boiler 2 × Vertical Triple Expansion (VTE) steam engines,2 shafts 6,300 ihp (4,700 kW)
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h)
Range	70 tons coal 1,440 nmi (2,670 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h)
Complement	63 officers and men
Armament	1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I gun 5 × QF 6-pdr 8 cwt naval gun guns 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes
Service record
Operations:	World War I 1914 - 1918

HMS Leopard was a Vickers three funnel - 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates. She was the ninth ship to carry this name since it was introduced in 1635 for a 34-gun ship, captured by the Dutch in 1653.^[2]