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{{other ships|HMS Teazer}}
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'''HMS ''Teazer''''' was a {{sclass|Conflict|destroyer}} built by the White shipyard for the [[Royal Navy]]. She was launched on 9 February 1895, and sold for scrapping on 9 July 1912.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/T/04588.html |title=HMS Teazer |publisher=www.pbenyon.plus.com |access-date=2009-11-07 }}</ref>
==Service history==
In January 1900 it was announced that ''Teazer'' would be commissioned as [[Ship’s tender|tender]] to the torpedo school {{HMS|Vernon|shore establishment|6}} at [[HMNB Chatham|Chatham]],<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=29 January 1900 |page=11 |issue=36051}}</ref> but she was on 12 February commissioned as tender to {{HMS|Excellent|shore establishment|6}}, gunnery school at [[Portsmouth]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=14 February 1900 |page=11 |issue=36065}}</ref> Later the same month, she was damaged by running into a jetty, and relieved from tender duties while receiving repairs.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=24 February 1900 |page=8 |issue=36074 }}</ref> She then took up the position as tender to ''Vernon'', serving as such until early 1901.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=5 January 1901 |page=8 |issue=36344}}</ref> She served in the [[HMNB Portsmouth|Portsmouth]] instructional flotilla until April 1902, when her crew was transferred to the destroyer {{HMS|Syren|1900|2}}, which took her place in the flotilla.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=11 April 1902 |page=10 |issue=36739}}</ref> Later in 1902, she underwent repairs to re-tube her boilers.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=14 May 1902 |page=12 |issue=36767}}</ref>
''Teazer'' was sold for scrap on 9 July 1912 for £1820.<ref name="Lyon p45">{{Harvnb|Lyon|2001|p=45}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| title=Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard |journal=The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect |volume=35|date=August 1912|page=18}}</ref>
==Notes==
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==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|editor2-last=Kolesnik|editor2-first=Eugene M.|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905|year=1979 |name-list-style=amp |publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London |isbn=0-85177-133-5}}
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}
* {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War|year=2009|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=978-1-84832-049-9}}
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Gray|editor2-first=Randal|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-245-5|name-list-style=amp}}
* {{cite book
|last=Lyon  |first=David
|title=The First Destroyers
|year=2001|location=London|publisher=Caxton Editions|orig-year=1996
|isbn=1-84067-364-8
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* {{cite book | last=Manning |first= T. D. | title=The British Destroyer | publisher=Putnam & Co. | year=1961|oclc= 6470051}}
* {{cite book|last=March|first=Edgar J.|title=British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892–1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans|year=1966|publisher=Seeley Service|location=London |oclc=164893555}}
{{Conflict class destroyer}}
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