HMS Afridi (1907)

HMS Afridi was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, one of five ordered for the 1905 to 1906 programme, and the last destroyer built by Armstrong Whitworth. She was ordered in September 1905 with the design left largely to the builder, who chose five Yarrow boilers feeding Parsons steam turbines of 14,250 shaft horsepower on three shafts, with three short funnels. She was laid down at Elswick in August 1906 and launched on 8 May 1907, but her trials were troublesome and she did not reach her contract speed of 33 knots until February 1909. She was commissioned on 10 September 1909, 26 months late. In the First World War she served with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla and the Dover Patrol, helped in the rescue after the ferry Sussex was torpedoed in 1916, was rearmed with two 4.7-inch guns in 1917, and escorted the blockships in the attack on Ostend in 1918. She was sold for scrapping in December 1919 and was sunk as a target in April 1930.