HMS Lapwing (1911)

HMS Lapwing
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Lapwing
Builder	Cammell Laird and Company, Birkenhead[1]
Launched	29 September 1911[1]
Fate	Sold 26 October 1921[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Acheron-class destroyer
Displacement	745 tons
Length	246 ft (75 m)
Beam	26 ft (7.9 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Installed power	13,500 shp (10,100 kW)
Propulsion	Three Parsons Turbines Three Yarrows boilers (oil fired) Three shafts
Speed	27 kn (50 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 Lapwing 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 seventh Royal Navy ship to be named after Vanellus vanellus, the northern lapwing.