HMS Itchen (1903)

	HMS Itchen in 1904
History
United Kingdom
Name	Itchen
Ordered	1901 – 1902 Naval Estimates
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down	18 August 1902
Launched	13 March 1903
Commissioned	January 1904
Fate	6 July 1917 was torpedoed by German submarine UC-44 70 miles NNE of Peterhead, Scotland
General characteristics
Class & type	Laird Type River Class destroyer
Displacement	550 long tons (559 t) standard; 625 long tons (635 t) full load; 226 ft 6 in (69.04 m) o/a; 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m) Beam; 7 ft 9 in (2.36 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	140 tons coal; 1,870 nmi (3,460 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-pounder 8 cwt (removed in 1906); 2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes;
Service record
Part of:	East Coast Destroyer Flotilla - 1905; 3rd Destroyer Flotilla - Apr 1909; 5th Destroyer Flotilla - 1912; Assigned E Class - Aug 1912 - Oct 1913; 9th Destroyer Flotilla - 1914; Scapa Flow Local Flotilla - Sep 1914;
Operations:	World War I 1914 - 1918

HMS Itchen was a Laird-type River-class destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1901–1902 Naval Estimates. Named after the River Itchen in southern England near Southampton, she was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy.