Ardent class destroyer
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The Ardent-class torpedo boat destroyers ("Thornycroft 27 knots (52.9 km/h) A class") served with the Royal Navy
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. Built by Thornycroft
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, they displaced 265 tons, and were 200 feet (61 m) long.
The Ardent-class were, except for their armament, identical to the preceding Daring class, being armed with one 12 pounder quick-firing gun forward and five 6-pounder guns, mounted on the broadside and aft, and two torpedo tubes on a revolving mount abaft the two funnels.