Category:HMS Speedy (ship, 1893)

**HMS Speedy**
	1893 Alarm-class torpedo gunboat
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Instance of	torpedo gunboat;
Country of origin	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
Operator	Royal Navy;
Manufacturer	John I. Thornycroft & Company;
Yard number	281;
Vessel class	Alarm-class torpedo gunboat;
Significant event	ship launching (1893); keel laying (1892);
Different from	HMS Speedy; HMS Speedy; HMS Speedy; HMS Speedy;
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Built by: J. I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd., Chiswick
Yard No.: 281
Keel: 04/01/1892
Launch Date: 18/05/1893
Date of completion 20/02/1894
Fully completed: March 1894
Formerly Alarm-class torpedo gunboat,
WW1 torpedo gunboat converted to a mine sweeper;

Foundered and lost after striking a mine off the Humber The British torpedo-gunboat Speedy was sunk by a mine in the North Sea while attempting to assist HMS Linsdell, a victim of the same minefield.

Source: Shipping and Shipbuilding