Gipsy-class destroyer

HMS Fairy
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 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes

Three Gipsy-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy; 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

Name	Launched	Fate
Osprey	7 April 1897	Broken up in 1919
Fairy	29 May 1897	Foundered 1918
Gipsy	9 March 1897	Sold 1921
Leven	28 June 1898	Broken up in 1920
Falcon	29 December 1899	Collided with another vessel in 1918
Ostrich	22 March 1900	Broken up in 1920

See also

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