HMS Cheerful (1897)

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History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cheerful
Ordered	1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates
Builder	R.W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co., Hebburn-on-Tyne
Cost	£54,509[1]
Yard number	343[1]
Laid down	7 September 1896
Launched	14 July 1897[Note 1]
Commissioned	June 1899
Fate	Mined on 30 June 1917
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Hawthorn Leslie three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer
Displacement	355 long tons (361 t) light 400 long tons (406 t) full load
Length	215 ft (66 m) o/a
Beam	21 ft 1 in (6.43 m)
Draught	8 ft 2 in (2.49 m)
Installed power	6,100 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	4 × Thornycroft water tube boilers 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines 2 shafts
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h)
Range	95 tons coal 1,615 nmi (2,991 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement	63 officers and men
Armament	1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I L/40 naval gun on a P Mark I low angle mount 5 × QF 6-pdr 8 cwt L/40 naval gun on a Mark I* low angle mount 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes
Service record
Operations:	World War I 1914 - 1918

HMS Cheerful was a 30-knot, three-funnel torpedo boat destroyer built by Hawthorn Leslie. She was ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1896–1897 Naval Estimates, launched in 1898, and saw action during World War I. She was mined off the Shetland Islands in 1917 and sank with the loss of 44 officers and men.

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