High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Electra was a Brazen class destroyer, later categorized as a C class destroyer, built at J G Thomson Shipbuilding Company (which in a few years would be renamed John Brown Company), at their Clydeside yard. She was one of the three-funnelled ships of the 1895 Naval Programme. She was launched on 14 July 1896, but not completed until July 1900 because of severe labour troubles in the shipbuilding industry in Great Britain at that time.