HMS Garry (1905)

History
Name:	HMS Garry
Ordered:	1903 – 1904 Naval Estimates
Builder:	Yarrows, Poplar
Laid down:	25 November 1904
Launched:	21 March 1905
Commissioned:	September 1905
Out of service:	1919 laid up in reserve awaiting disposal
Fate:	22 October 1920 sold to J.H. Lee for breaking
General characteristics
Class and type:	Yarrow Type River Class destroyer
Displacement:	590 t (581 long tons) standard 660 t (650 long tons) full load 231 ft 4 in (70.51 m) o/a 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) Beam 7 ft 2.5 in (2.197 m) Draught
Propulsion:	4 × Yarrow type water tube boiler 2 × Vertical Triple Expansion (VTE) steam engines driving 2 shafts producing 7,000 shp (5,200 kW) (average)
Speed:	25.5 kn (47.2 km/h)
Range:	130 tons coal 1,620 nmi (3,000 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h)
Complement:	70 officers and men
Armament:	1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I, mounting P Mark I 3 × QF 12-pounder 8 cwt, mounting G Mark I (Added in 1906) 5 × QF 6-pdr naval gun (removed in 1906) 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes
Service record
Part of:	East Coast Destroyer Flotilla - 1904 3rd Destroyer Flotilla - April 1909 5th Destroyer Flotilla - 1912 Assigned E Class - Aug 1912 - Oct 1913 9th Destroyer Flotilla - 1914 7th Destroyer Flotilla - August 1915
Operations:	World War I 1914 - 1918
Victories:	U-18 23 November 1914 UB-110 19 July 1918

HMS Garry was a Yarrow-type River-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. under the 1903 – 1904 Naval Estimates. Named after the River Garry in north central Scotland, she was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy.

She was ordered under the 1903 – 1904 Naval Estimates, laid down on 25 November 1904 at the Yarrow shipyard at Poplar and launched on 21 March 1905. She was completed in September 1905. Her original armament was to be the same as the turtleback torpedo boat destroyers that preceded her. In 1906 the Admiralty decided to upgrade the armament by landing the five 6-pounder naval guns and shipping three 12-pounder 8 hundredweight (cwt) guns. Two would be mounted abeam at the foc's'le break and the third gun would be mounted on the quarterdeck.

After commissioning she was assigned to the East Coast Destroyer Flotilla of the 1st Fleet and based at Harwich.

On 26 July 1907 Garry and the destroyer Waveney collided off Sandown, damaging both ships.

In April 1909 she was assigned to the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla on its formation at Harwich. She remained until displaced by a Beagle-class destroyer by May 1912. She was assigned to the 5th Destroyer Flotilla of the Second Fleet with a nucleus crew.

On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyer classes were to be designated by alpha characters starting with the letter 'A'. The ships of the River class were assigned to the E class. After 30 September 1913, she was known as an E class destroyer and had the letter ‘E’ painted on the hull below the bridge area and on either the fore or aft funnel.

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