HMS Lapwing (1911)

	HMS Lapwing
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Lapwing
Builder	Cammell Laird and Company, Birkenhead
Launched	29 September 1911
Fate	Sold 26 October 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Acheron-class destroyer
Displacement	745 tons
Length	246 ft (75 m)
Beam	26 ft (7.9 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Installed power	13,500 shp (10,100 kW)
Propulsion	Three Parsons Turbines; Three Yarrows boilers (oil fired); Three shafts;
Speed	27 kn (50 km/h)
Complement	72
Armament	2 × BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) L/40 Mark VIII guns, mounting P Mark V; 2 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun, mounting P Mark I; 2 × single tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes;

HMS Lapwing was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named after Vanellus vanellus, the northern lapwing.

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