Gipsy-class destroyer

Class overview
Name: Gipsy class
Builders: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotland
Operators:  Royal Navy
Built: 1896–1901
In commission: 1895–1919
Completed: 6
Lost: 2
Scrapped: 4
General characteristics
Type:Torpedo boat destroyer
Displacement:350 long tons (356 t)
Length:209.75 ft (63.93 m)
Beam:21 ft (6.4 m)
Draught:8 ft 2 in (2.5 m)
Propulsion:Triple expansion steam engines
Coal-fired Normand boilers
6,300 hp (4,698 kW)
Speed:30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement:63
Armament:1 × QF 12-pounder gun
2 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes

Three Gipsy-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy;[1] Osprey, Fairy and Gipsy were three funnelled 30-knot (56 km/h) C-class destroyers built by Fairfield with Thorneycroft boilers. Leven, Falcon and Ostrich are sometime referred to as the Falcon class but are here listed under the Gipsy class. These 209-foot (64 m) long ships were armed with the standard 12-pounder gun and two torpedo tubes and all served in the First World War in home waters.

Ships

NameLaunchedFate
Osprey7 April 1897Broken up in 1919[1]
Fairy29 May 1897Foundered 1918[1]
Gipsy9 March 1897Sold 1921[1]
Leven28 June 1898Broken up in 1920[2]
Falcon29 December 1899Collided with another vessel in 1918[3][4]
Ostrich22 March 1900Broken up in 1920[3]

See also

Media related to Gipsy class destroyer at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Gypsy class at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 2009-04-03.
  2. ↑ "Leven at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 2009-04-03.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Falcon class at BattleshipsCruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 2009-04-03.
  4. ↑ See British National Archives ADM 1/8522/112 "Court Martial on loss of HMS FALCON in collision with HM Armed Trawler JOHN FITZGERALD" http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=6004257