HMS Ferret (1911)

HMS Ferret
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Ferret
Builder	J. Samuel White & Company, Cowes[1]
Launched	12 April 1911[1]
Fate	Converted to fast minelayer in 1917 Sold May 1921[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)
Installed power	13,500 shp (10,100 kW)
Propulsion	Three Parsons Turbines Three White-Forster boilers (oil fired) Three shafts
Speed	30 kn (56 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 Ferret was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the sixteenth Royal Navy ship to be named after the domestic mammal Mustela putorius.