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HMS Cobra. Built to convince the Admiralty of the great benefit of turbine propulsion.
Unfortunately also demonstrated the even greater benefit of not building ships that embarrassingly break in half and sink.
The Royal Navy's introduction to steam turbines was literally a rocky one. HMS Viper was lost just a few weeks before, having demonstrated the new technology's potential to allow warships to crash into geology at hitherto unimaginable speeds...
@DreadShips are you telling me... the front fell off? That's not very typical.
@Floppy At sea? Chance in a million.
@DreadShips And now the RN avoids naming ships after reptiles https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59894828
@DreadShips "Barns threw out everything he could from the dinghy and managed to get onboard four more survivors, including Percey. Three of these had to stay in the water holding the side of the boat for three hours until the sea had calmed enough to get them aboard. It was reported that another sailor, reaching the boat after an exhausting swim, saw that 'if he added his weight all would be lost, so he said “It's one for many, good-bye all,” and he loosed his grip, sinking to rise no more'."
@DreadShips the marine steam turbine was developed by a fella from #Birr in #Ireland. Birr is in the Midlands and about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in Ireland.
When I say a fella from Birr I actually mean a Gent as his family where the locals lords.
https://www.maritimefoundation.uk/publications/maritime-2023/sir-charles-parsons-and-the-birth-of-the-steam-turbine/