HMS Ardent (1894)

HMS Ardent was an Ardent-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was built by Thornycroft at Church Wharf in Chiswick on the River Thames, launched on 16 October 1894 and sold in 1911.

The ship was launched on the 16 October 1894 from the yard at Chiswick following the naming ceremony by Mrs C.T. Cornish, the daughter of the company founder John Isaac Thornycroft.

Ardent was attached to the Mediterranean Fleet during the 1890s as tender to the flagship HMS Ramillies (1892). One role of the destroyer was training of stokers of the Fleet in the management of water-tube boilers.