HMS Phoenix (1911)

HMS Phoenix
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Phoenix
Builder	Vickers Limited of Barrow-in-Furness
Launched	9 October 1911[1]
Fate	Sunk on 14 May 1918 by the Austrian submarine SM U-27[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Acheron-class destroyer
Displacement	990 tons
Length	75 m (246 ft)
Beam	7.8 m (26 ft)
Draught	2.7 m (8.9 ft)
Propulsion	Three shaft Parsons Turbines Three Yarrow boilers (oil fired) 13,500 shp
Speed	28 kt (66.7 km/h)
Complement	72
Armament	2 × BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) L/40 Mark VIII guns, mounting P Mark V 2 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun, mounting P Mark I 2 × single tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes

HMS Phoenix was an Acheron-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She is named for the mythical bird, and was the fifteenth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was the only British warship ever to be sunk by the Austro-Hungarian Navy.^[2][3]