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HMS ''Arab'' (1896 to 1897 Programme) was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was laid down by J & G Thomson at Clydebank and completed by John Brown & Company who took over the yard. ==Construction and design== As part of the 1896–1897 construction programme for the Royal Navy, the British Admiralty placed orders for thirty torpedo boat destroyers. Of these ships, 17 were required to meet the standard contract speed of , while the remaining three destroyers, with one each ordered from Laird, Thornycroft and J & G Thomson, were required to reach higher speeds, with Thomson's and Thornycroft's designs (built as ''Arab'' and ) contracted for while Laird's ship, , had a speed of specified.〔Friedman 2009, p. 53.〕〔Lyon 2001, p. 23.〕 ''Arab'' was long overall, with a beam of and a draught of . She displaced light and full load.〔Lyon 2001, p. 28.〕 Four coal-fed Normand boilers, with four funnels, fed two triple expansion steam engines rated at which drove two propeller shafts.〔Lyon 2001, p. 28.〕〔Hythe 1912, p. 247.〕 Sufficient coal was carried to give a range of at .〔Friedman 2009, p. 292.〕 She carried the specified armament for the thirty-knotters of a QF 12 pounder 12 cwt ( calibre) gun on a platform on the ship's conning tower (in practice the platform was also used as the ship's bridge), with a secondary armament of five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes.〔Lyon 2001, pp. 98–99.〕〔Friedman 2009, p. 40.〕 While the ship carried the same armament as normal thirty-knotter destroyers, the more powerful engines needed more coal and hence more stokers were needed to feed the coal to the engines, with ''Arab''s crew being 69 officers and men, compared to 63 for thirty-knotters built by Thomsons.〔Lyon 2001, p. 106.〕〔〔Manning 1961, pp. 41, 46.〕 Construction work on ''Arab'' was delayed owing to problems during the sea trials of the thirty-knotter destroyers built by Thomsons under the 1895–1896 programme, which required significant modification to reach the required speed.〔Lyon 2001, pp. 23, 47.〕 ''Arab'' was finally laid down on 5 March 1900 and launched on 9 February 1901.〔 ''Arab'' ran 9 trials between 11 March and 27 May 1901, but like the other two high-speed destroyers ordered under the 1896–1897 programme, failed to meet the contracted speed, with the maximum speed reached only . She was delivered to the Royal Navy on 20 October 1902, with the Admiralty imposing a £3000 penalty owing to the ships failure to meet contract speed, the final price paid being £63,642.〔Lyon 2001, p. 29.〕〔Friedman 2009, p. 58.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Arab (1901)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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