Gipsy-class destroyer

	HMS Fairy
Class overview
Name	Gipsy class
Builders	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotland
Operators	Royal Navy
Built	1896–1901
In commission	1895–1919
Completed	6
Lost	2
Scrapped	4
General characteristics
Type	Torpedo boat destroyer
Displacement	350 long tons (356 t)
Length	209.75 ft (63.93 m)
Beam	21 ft (6.4 m)
Draught	8 ft 2 in (2.5 m)
Propulsion	Triple expansion steam engines; Coal-fired Normand boilers; 6,300 hp (4,698 kW);
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	63
Armament	1 × QF 12-pounder gun; 2 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes;

Three Gipsy-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy;^[1] Osprey, Fairy and Gipsy were three funnelled 30-knot (56 km/h) C-class destroyers built by Fairfield with Thorneycroft boilers. Leven, Falcon and Ostrich are sometime referred to as the Falcon class but are here listed under the Gipsy class. These 209-foot (64 m) long ships were armed with the standard 12-pounder gun and two torpedo tubes and all served in the First World War in home waters.

Ships

Name	Launched	Fate
Osprey	7 April 1897	Broken up in 1919^[1]
Fairy	29 May 1897	Foundered 1918^[1]
Gipsy	9 March 1897	Sold 1921^[1]
Leven	28 June 1898	Broken up in 1920^[2]
Falcon	29 December 1899	Collided with another vessel in 1918^[3]^[4]
Ostrich	22 March 1900	Broken up in 1920^[3]