HMS Foresight (1904)

History
United Kingdom
NameForesight
BuilderFairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan
Laid down24 October 1903
Launched8 October 1904
CommissionedAugust 1905
FateSold for scrap, 3 March 1920
General characteristics (as built)
TypeScout cruiser
Displacement2,850 long tons (2,896 t)
Length365 ft (111.3 m) (p/p)
Beam39 ft 2 in (11.9 m)
Draught14 ft 3 in (4.3 m)
Installed power
Propulsion2 Shafts, 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range3,400 nmi (6,300 km; 3,900 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement289
Armament
Armour

HMS Foresight was one of two Forward-class scout cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the 20th century. The ship was in reserve for most of the first decade of her existence. After the beginning of the First World War in August 1914, she was initially assigned to the Dover Patrol and was then transferred to the 8th Destroyer Flotilla. Foresight was sent to the Mediterranean in mid-1915 and was then assigned to the Aegean Sea a year later, together with her sister ship, Forward, and remained there until the end of the war. After returning home in 1919, she was sold for scrap in 1920.