HMS Pheasant (1916)
HMS Pheasant was a Royal Navy Admiralty M-class destroyer constructed and then operational in the First World War. She hit and was sunk by a mine in 1917.
The vessel was built at Fairfield Shipyard on the Clyde and launched on 23 October 1916.[1]
Sinking
On the morning of 1 March 1917 the destroyer was taken part in a standard patrol of the Orkney areas. She departed Scapa Flow to patrol west of the anchorage and contacted a mine. The destroyer sank with the loss of 88 lives.[2] The wreck lies roughly E-W, in 82m depth of water at Coordinates: 58°52.07′N 3°27.41′W / 58.86783°N 3.45683°W and was found by divers from the Army Sub-Aqua Club on 13 May 1996.[3]
References
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Conway Maritime Press, 1997. p. 80.
- ↑ "HMS Pheasant". WreckSite. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ↑ "HMS Pheasant". Canmore. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
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