Conflict-class destroyer
Three Conflict-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy. All were built by the White Shipyard.
Under the 1893–1894 Naval Estimates, the British Admiralty placed orders for 36 torpedo-boat destroyers, all to be capable of, the "27-knotters", as a follow-on to the six prototype "26-knotters" ordered in the previous 1892–1893 Estimates. As was typical for torpedo craft at the time, the Admiralty left detailed design to the builders, laying down only broad requirements.
,, and were long, displaced 320 tons and produced from their White-Forster boilers to give them a top speed of. They were armed, as was standard with ships of this type at the time, with one twelve pounder gun and two torpedo tubes, and had a complement of 53 officers and men.
In September 1913 the Admiralty re-classed all the surviving 27-knotter destroyers, including Conflict and Wizard as A Class destroyers.