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HMS Ariel (1897)
HMS ''Ariel'' was a two funnel, 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates. Named after Shakespeare's "airy spirit", or the biblical spirit of the same name, she was the ninth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1897, served at Chatham and Malta, and was wrecked in a storm in 1907.
==Construction==
The British Admiralty ordered two "thirty-knotter" torpedo boat destroyers from John I. Thornycroft & Company as part of the 1895–96 shipbuilding programme for the Royal Navy. The two ships, and ''Ariel'' were repeats of the four thirty-knotters ordered from Thornycroft under the previous year's programme (, , and ) and as such shared the same design features.〔Lyon 2001, p. 47.〕
Thornycroft's design had three water-tube boilers supplying steam at to 2 four-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines, rated at , and had two funnels.〔Lyon 2001, pp. 45, 47.〕〔Friedman 2009, pp. 48–49.〕 The ship was long overall and at the waterline, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was light and full load,〔 while crew was 63 officers and men.〔Manning 1961, p. 40.〕 The ships were required to reach a speed of during sea trials and carry an armament of a single QF 12 pounder 12 cwt ( calibre) gun, backed up by five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. An arched turtleback forecastle was to be fitted.〔Lyon 2001, pp. 22–23.〕〔Lyon 2001, pp. 98–99.〕
She was laid down as yard number 314 on 23 April 1896 at Thornycroft's shipyard at Chiswick on the River Thames and was launched on 5 March 1897.〔 During sea trials, she reached over the measured mile and in the three hour trial.〔Lyon 2001, p. 48.〕 ''Ariel'' was completed in October 1898.〔
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