HMS Falcon (1899)

Falcon before 1 January 1918
History
United Kingdom
Name	Falcon
Ordered	1898 – 1899 Naval Estimates
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
Cost	£65,119[1]
Yard number	412[1]
Laid down	26 June 1899[1]
Launched	29 December 1899[1]
Commissioned	December 1901
Fate	Lost in collision with the armed trawler HMS John Fitzgerald, 1 April 1918
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Fairfield three funnel, 30 knot destroyer
Displacement	370 long tons (376 t) light 420 long tons (427 t) full load
Length	215 ft 6 in (65.68 m) o/a
Beam	21 ft (6.4 m)
Draught	8 ft 9 in (2.67 m)
Installed power	6,300 ihp (4,700 kW)
Propulsion	4 × Thornycroft water tube boilers 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines 2 shafts
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h)
Range	85 tons coal 1,615 nmi (2,991 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h)
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 L/40 naval gun on a Mark I* low angle mount 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes

HMS Falcon was a Fairfield three-funnel, 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1898 – 1899 Naval Estimates. She spent her life in Home waters, was part of the Dover Patrol during World War I and was lost in a collision on 1 April 1918.