HMS Jackal (1911)

HMS Jackal in pre-war black paint, with funnel bands
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Jackal
Builder:	R. W. Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn
Launched:	9 September 1911
Fate:	Sold, 28 September 1920
General characteristics
Class and type:	Acheron-class destroyer
Displacement:	990 long tons (1,010 t)
Length:	246 ft (75 m)
Beam:	26 ft (7.9 m)
Draught:	8.9 ft (2.7 m)
Installed power:	13,500 shp (10,100 kW)
Propulsion:	3 × Parsons steam turbines 3 × Yarrow boilers 3 × shafts
Speed:	27 kn (31 mph; 50 km/h)
Complement:	70
Armament:	2 × BL 4 in (100 mm) L/40 Mark VIII guns 2 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval guns 2 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

HMS Jackal was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during the World War I and was sold for breaking in 1920. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Jackal, after the predatory mammal of the same name.

She was built under the 1910-11 shipbuilding programme by R. W. Hawthorn Leslie & Company of Hebburn, Tyneside to an Admiralty design and was launched on 9 September 1911.

Jackal served with the First Destroyer Flotilla from 1911 and, with her flotilla, joined the British Grand Fleet in 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War.

She was present on 28 August 1914 at the Battle of Heligoland Bight, detached from the First Destroyer Flotilla along with Badger, Beaver and Sandfly. She shared in the prize money for the engagement.

On 24 January 1915, the First Destroyer Flotilla — including Jackal — were present at the Battle of Dogger Bank, led by the light cruiser Aurora. Her crew shared in the prize money for the German armoured cruiser Blücher.

The light cruiser Argyll went aground on Bell Rock near Dundee on 28 October after failing to sight the light due to a failure of communications between the ship and the lighthouse. Jackal and Hornet were diverted from their patrol to assist and rescued the crew of approximately 650; there were no fatalities.