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.

Conflict-class destroyer

, , 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, two torpedo tubes and had a complement of 53 officers and men.

Conflict-class destroyer

In September 1913 the Admiralty re-classed all the surviving 27-knotter destroyers, including Conflict and Wizard (Teazer having been sold for scrap in 1912) as A Class destroyers.

Conflict-class destroyer

See also

A-class destroyer (1913)

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Destroyer classes

Ship classes of the Royal Navy