The ''Violet'' class destroyer was a class of two

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s that served in the British Royal Navy. and were built by William Doxford & Sons in

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. They were fitted with Thornycroft boilers which generated 6,300 HP and produced the demanded of these three funnelled C-class destroyers. They were armed with the standard

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and two torpedo tubes, and carried a complement of 63 officers and men. Both ships served through the Great War and were broken up shortly afterwards.

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