HMS Mosquito (1910)

	Sister ship Scourge
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Mosquito
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Govan
Laid down	22 April 1909
Launched	27 January 1910
Completed	11 August 1910
Out of service	31 August 1920
Fate	Sold to the broken up
General characteristics
Class and type	Beagle-class destroyer
Displacement	925 long tons (940 t)
Length	271 ft (83 m)
Beam	27 ft 10 in (8.48 m)
Draught	16 ft 6 in (5.03 m)
Installed power	12,000 hp (8,900 kW) under a forced draught
Propulsion	5 x coal-fired Yarrow boilers, 3 x Parsons steam turbines driving 3 shafts
Speed	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Range	2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	96
Armament	1 × 4 in (102 mm) BL Mark VIII naval gun; 3 × 3 in (76 mm) QF 12 pdr 12 cwt Mark I; 2 × single 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes;

HMS Mosquito was a Beagle-class (or G-class) destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The Beagle class were coal-fuelled ships, designed for a speed of 27 kn (31 mph; 50 km/h) and armed with a 4 in (102 mm) gun and two torpedo tubes. Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at their Govan yard and launched in 1910, Mosquito was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1913, and spent most of the First World War in the Mediterranean. While participating in the Gallipoli campaign, the destroyer rescued the crew of the French battleship Bouvet, sunk by a naval mine. The vessel was transferred to Buncrana in the north of Ireland in 1917 and acted as an escort to convoys. In 1918, the destroyer helped to rescue survivors from the troopship Tuscania, sunk by a German U-boat. After the Armistice that ended the war, Mosquito was initially transferred to the Nore and then sold in 1920 to be broken up.

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