| Career (United Kingdom) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Osprey |
| Namesake: | Osprey |
| Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan |
| Laid down: | 14 November 1896 |
| Launched: | 7 April 1897 |
| Completed: | July 1898 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1919 |
| 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: | 6,250 ihp (4,660 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 Osprey was a 30 knot Gipsy-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy [1]. She was launched by Fairfield on the 7th of April 1897, served in home waters through World War I and was broken up after hostilities ended in 1919.
The British Destroyer by Captain T.D. Manning first published in Great Britain in 1961 by Putnam and Co Ltd and reprinted in facsimile by Godfrey Cave associates Ltd in 1979. ISBN 0 906223 13 X page 44.
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