&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Fairy_(1897)_IWM_Q_038854.jpg) HMS Fairy
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| History | |
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| 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 and type | Fairfield three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer[1][2] |
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| 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) |
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| Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h) |
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| Complement | 63 officers and men |
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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.[2][3] 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.
- ^ Jane, Fred T. (1969) [1905 Sampson Low Marston, London]. Jane's Fighting Ships 1905. New York: ARCO Publishing Company. p. 77.
- ^ a b Jane, Fred T. (1990) [1919]. Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I. Jane’s Publishing. pp. 76–77. ISBN 1-85170-378-0.
- ^ Jane, Fred T. (1969) [1898, Sampson Low Marston, London]. Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships 1898. New York: ARCO Publishing Company. pp. 84–85.