HMS Goshawk
Five ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Goshawk, after the bird of prey, the goshawk. A sixth ship was renamed before being launched:
Ships
Shore establishment
HMS Goshawk (1911)
HMS Goshawk 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 sixth Royal Navy ship to be named after the bird of prey, Accipiter gentilis.
Construction
She was built under the 1910-11 shipbuilding programme by William Beardmore & Company of Dalmuir and was launched on 18 October 1911. She was built to the standard Admiralty I-class design, with three Parsons steam turbines driving three shafts. Developing about 13,500 horsepower (10,100 kW), she was capable of 27 knots (50 km/h).
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Operational history
Action on 16 August 1914
On 16 August 1914, within days of the outbreak of war, the First Destroyer Flotilla engaged an enemy cruiser off the mouth of the Elbe, which is reported with great verve by an author writing under the pseudonym "Clinker Knocker" in 1938:
The Battle of Heligoland Bight
Goshawk took part on the Battle of Heligoland Bight on 28 August 1914, and in Commodore Tyrwhitt's despatch, her captain was singled out for praise:
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