| Career (United Kingdom) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Gipsy |
| Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan |
| Laid down: | 1 October 1896 |
| Launched: | 9 September 1897 |
| Completed: | July 1898 |
| Fate: | Sold, 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Gipsy-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 355 long tons (361 t) |
| Length: | 215.5 ft (65.7 m) |
| Beam: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft 2 in (2.5 m) |
| Installed power: | 6,300 ihp (4,700 kW) |
| Propulsion: | vertical triple-expansion steam engines Coal-fired Normand boilers |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Armament: | 1 × QF 12-pounder gun 3 × 6-pounder guns 3 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes |
HMS Gipsy (not Gypsy) was a Gipsy-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy [1]. She was launched by Fairfield on the 9th of March 1897 and served in home waters through World War I. She destroyed U-48, a U boat which had foundered on the Goodwin Sands on 24 November 1917.[1] She was sold off in 1921.
The British Destroyer by Captain T.D. Manning ISBN 0 906223 13 X page 44. First published in Great Britain in 1961 by Putnam and Co Ltd and reprinted in facsimile by Godfrey Cave associates Ltd in 1979.
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