HMS Fairy (1897)

	HMS Fairy
History
United Kingdom
Name	Fairy
Ordered	1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Glasgow
Laid down	19 October 1896
Launched	29 May 1897
Commissioned	August 1898
Fate	Foundered after ramming SM UC-75, 31 May 1918
General characteristics
Class & type	Fairfield three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer
Displacement	355 long tons (361 t) standard; 400 long tons (406 t) full load;
Length	215 ft 6 in (65.68 m) o/a
Beam	21 ft (6.4 m)
Draught	8 ft 2 in (2.49 m)
Installed power	6,000 shp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	4 × Thornycroft water tube boilers; 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines; 2 × shafts;
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h)
Range	80 tons coal; 1,615 nmi (2,991 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph);
Complement	63 officers and men
Armament	1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I L/40 naval gun on a P Mark I low angle mount; 5 × QF 6-pdr 8 cwt naval gun on a Mark I* low angle mount; 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes;

HMS Fairy was a three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer of the First World War. One of three similar ships built by Fairfields for the Royal Navy, she was ordered under the 1896–1897 Naval Estimates and the sixth Royal Navy ship to carry this name. She was classified, along with other similar ships, as a C-class destroyer in 1913. She sank in 1918 from damage inflicted by ramming and sinking the German submarine UC-75.

History
HMS Fairy
United Kingdom
Name	Fairy
Ordered	1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Glasgow
Laid down	19 October 1896
Launched	29 May 1897
Commissioned	August 1898
Fate	Foundered after ramming SM UC-75, 31 May 1918
General characteristics
Class & type	Fairfield three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer
Displacement	355 long tons (361 t) standard 400 long tons (406 t) full load
Length	215 ft 6 in (65.68 m) o/a
Beam	21 ft (6.4 m)
Draught	8 ft 2 in (2.49 m)
Installed power	6,000 shp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	4 × Thornycroft water tube boilers 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines 2 × shafts
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h)
Range	80 tons coal 1,615 nmi (2,991 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement	63 officers and men
Armament	1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I L/40 naval gun on a P Mark I low angle mount 5 × QF 6-pdr 8 cwt naval gun on a Mark I* low angle mount 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes