| Name: | SPITEFUL |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 12/01/1898 |
| Launched: | 11/01/1899 |
| Completed: | 25/03/1899 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 734 |
| Dimensions: | 365disp - 400disp, 215.0 x 20.8 x 9.1 (draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x T3cyl, 6300hp |
| Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 30.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 1 x 12pdr QF, 5 x 1 x 6pdr guns; 2 x 18.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 25/03/1899 | British Royal Navy |
| 14/09/1920 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Spiteful Class of Destroyers |
| 02/1901: Went ashore near the Isle of Wight | |
| Subsequently refoated & repaired at Portsmouth | |
| 1904: Modified to burn oil fuel, as a trial and was the first RN warship to be oil fired | |
| 1913: Redesignated as a member of the B Class | |
| 14/09/1920: Sold for breaking up by Hayes at Porthcawl |
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