HMS Ostrich (1900)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Ostrich
Ordered	1898 – 1899 Naval Estimates
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Glasgow
Laid down	28 June 1899
Launched	22 March 1900
Commissioned	December 1901
Out of service	Laid up, December 1918
Fate	Sold for breaking, 29 April 1920
General characteristics
Class and type	Fairfield three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer[1][2]
Displacement	375 long tons (381 t) standard 420 long tons (427 t) full load
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)
Propulsion	4 × Thornycroft water tube boilers 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines 2 × shafts
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h)
Range	80 tons coal 1,615 nmi (2,991 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h)
Complement	63 officers and men
Armament	1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I L/40 naval gun on a P Mark I low angle mount 5 × QF 6-pounder 8 cwt L/40 naval gun on a Mark I* low angle mount 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes

HMS Ostrich was a Fairfield three-funnel, 30-knot torpedo boat destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1898 – 1899 Naval Estimates. In 1913 she was grouped as a C-class destroyer. She was the first Royal Navy ship to carry this name.^[3][4] She spent most of her operational career in home waters, operating with the Channel Fleet as part of the Portsmouth Instructional Flotilla, and was sold for breaking in 1920.