HMS Sylvia (1897)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Sylvia
Ordered	1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates
Builder	William Doxford and Sons Pallion, Sunderland
Laid down	13 July 1896
Launched	3 July 1897
Commissioned	January 1899
Out of service	Laid up in reserve 1919
Fate	23 July 1919 to Thos W Ward of Sheffield for breaking at New Holland, Lincolnshire on the Humber Estuary
General characteristics
Class & type	Doxford three funnel - 30 knot destroyer
Displacement	400 long tons (406 t) deep load
Length	214 ft 2 in (65.28 m) o/a
Beam	21 ft (6.4 m) Beam
Draught	9 ft 7 in (2.92 m) Draught
Propulsion	4 × Thornycroft water tube boiler; 2 × Vertical Triple Expansion (VTE) steam engines driving 2 shafts producing 6,300 ihp (4,700 kW);
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h)
Range	95 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-pdr 8 cwt naval gun L/40 Naval gun on a Mark I* low angle mount; 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes;
Service record
Operations	World War I 1914 - 1918

HMS Sylvia was a Doxford three funnel - 30 knot destroyer ordered by the British Royal Navy under the 1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates, launched on 3 July 1897 and entering service in January 1899. She was the sixth ship to carry this name to serve with the Royal Navy.

Sylvia remained in service on the outbreak of the First World War, being employed for patrol and escort duties in home waters for the duration of the war, and taking part in the sinking of the German submarine UC-55 in September 1917. She was withdrawn from use in 1919 and sold for scrap later that year.