The Huszar class entered service as a roughly 420-ton, 28-knot design whose expansion machinery already looked conservative in 1905. Yarrow built the first ship, which was lost in 1908; its 1910 replacement received salvaged armament and equipment. Thirteen Huszars were built, and a seized Chinese order later supplemented the force. These destroyers fought fierce gun and torpedo actions against Italian opponents, often without sinking each other. Mines accounted for most destroyer losses in this account of their Adriatic fighting.
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The Huszars arrived with a conservative destroyer design
The early Huszars combined a small, conservative design with hard wartime service, during which mines proved more destructive than many surface encounters.