Hawthorn Leslie and Company
HMS "Velox" was a turbine-powered torpedo boat destroyer (or "TBD") of the British Royal Navy built on speculation in 1901-04 by engineering firm Parsons Marine, with the hull subcontracted to Hawthorn Leslie and Company at Hebburn on the River Tyne. "Velox" served in the First World War, being sunk by striking a mine in 1915.