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{{short description|Destroyer of the Royal Navy}}

{{Other ships|HMS Lee}}
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| Ship name=''Lee''
| Ship ordered=1898 – 1899 Naval Estimates
| Ship builder= [[William Doxford and Sons]] [[Pallion]], [[Sunderland, Tyne and Wear|Sunderland]]
| Ship laid down=4 January 1898
| Ship launched=27 January 1899
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| Ship fate= 5 October 1909 wrecked off Blacksod Bay on the west coast of Ireland
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|Ship class=[[C class destroyer (1913)|Doxford three funnel - 30 knot]] [[destroyer]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Jane|first=Fred T.|title=Jane’s Fighting Ships 1905|orig-year=1905|year=1969|publisher=first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1905, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company|location=New York|page=77}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Jane|first=Fred T.|title=Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I|year= 1990|publisher=Jane’s Publishing © 1919|isbn=1 85170 378 0|page=77}}</ref>
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|Ship propulsion=*4 × Thornycroft [[water tube boiler]]
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*1 × [[QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun|QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I]] L/40 naval gun on a P Mark I Low angle mount
*5 × [[QF 6-pdr 8 cwt naval gun]] L/40 Naval gun on a Mark I* low angle mount
*2 × single [[Torpedo tube|tube]]s for [[British 18 inch torpedo|18-inch (450mm) torpedoes]]
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'''HMS ''Lee''''' was a [[C class destroyer (1913)|Doxford three funnel - 30 knot]] [[destroyer]] ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1898 – 1899 Naval Estimates.  She was the sixth ship to carry this name since its introduction in 1776 for a 6-gun sloop for service on the Great Lakes.<ref name="Jane-p84-85">{{cite book|last=Jane|first=Fred T.|title=Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships 1898|orig-year=1898|year=1969|publisher=first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1898, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company|location=New York|page=84 to 85}}</ref><ref name="Jane-p76">{{cite book|last=Jane|first=Fred T.|title=Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I|year= 1990|publisher=Jane’s Publishing © 1919|isbn=1 85170 378 0|page=76}}</ref>

==Construction and career==
She was laid down on 4 January 1898 at the [[William Doxford and Sons]] shipyard at [[Pallion]], [[Sunderland, Tyne and Wear|Sunderland]] and launched on 27 January 1899.  During her acceptance trials she took a very long time to attain the contract speed of 30 knots and was not accepted into the Royal Navy until March 1901.<ref name="Jane-p84-85" /><ref name="Jane-p76" />

After commissioning she was deployed to the Channel Fleet and based at Shearness as part of the Medway Instructional Flotilla. In December 1901 she was replaced in the flotilla by [[HMS Mermaid (1898)|Mermaid]], her crew was transferred to the latter ship,<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=16 December 1901 |page=10 |issue=36639}}</ref> and she paid off into the Fleet Reserve.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=18 December 1901 |page=6 |issue=36641}}</ref>

On 14 July 1907, ''Lee'', which had been operating with the Channel Fleet, collided with the Dutch [[protected cruiser]] {{Ship|HNLMS|Friesland|1896|2}} off [[Start Point, Devon]], holing the destroyer on her port quarter.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Naval Matters—Past and Prospective |journal=The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect |volume=30|date=1 August 1907 |p=15}}</ref>

On 5 October 1909 she was wrecked off [[Blacksod Bay]] on the west coast of Ireland.<ref name="gwpda">{{cite web|title="Arrowsmith" List – Part 1 Destroyer Prototypes through "River" Class|url=http://www.gwpda.org/naval/s0420000.htm|access-date=1 Jun 2013}}</ref>

==Pennant Numbers==
During her career she was not assigned a pennant (pendant) number.<ref name="gwpda" />

==References==
NOTE:  All tabular data under General Characteristics only from the listed Jane's Fighting Ships volume unless otherwise specified

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==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|editor2-last=Kolesnik|editor2-first=Eugene M.|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905|year=1979 |name-list-style=amp |publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London |isbn=0-85177-133-5}}
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}
* {{cite book|last1=Dittmar|first1=F. J.|last2=Colledge|first2=J. J.|title=British Warships 1914–1919|year=1972|publisher=Ian Allan|location=Shepperton, UK|isbn=0-7110-0380-7|name-list-style=amp}}
* {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War|year=2009|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=978-1-84832-049-9}}
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Gray|editor2-first=Randal|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-245-5|name-list-style=amp}}
* {{cite book|last=Lyon|first=David|title=The First Destroyers|year=2001|orig-year=1996|publisher=Caxton Editions|location=London|isbn=1-84067-3648}}
* {{cite book|last=Manning|first=T. D.|title=The British Destroyer|year=1961|publisher=Putnam & Co.|location=London|oclc= 6470051}}
* {{cite book|last=March|first=Edgar J.|title=British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892–1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans|year=1966|publisher=Seeley Service|location=London |OCLC=164893555}}

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