| Name: | NEGRO |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | |
| Launched: | 08/03/1916 |
| Completed: | 30/06/1916 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 852 |
| Dimensions: | 994 - 1042disp, 265.0 x 26.5 x 8.8(draft)ft |
| Engines: | Steam turbines, 25000shp |
| Engines by: | |
| Propulsion: | 3 x Screws, 34.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 3 x 1 x 4.0ins, 3 x 1 x 2pdr guns, 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 30/06/1916 | British Royal Navy |
| 21/12/1916 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the Admiralty M Class of destroyers |
| 21/12/1916: While escorting the Grand Fleet during a sweep, | |
| the new destroyer HOSTE suffered a steering engine failure. | |
| She was ordered back to Scapa escorted by the destroyer NEGRO. | |
| Off the Orkney Islands the weather worsened and the temporary repairs | |
| to the HOSTE's steering failed and she sheered to starboard. | |
| The NEGRO was only 400yds astern and ran into her aft end. | |
| The collision knocked two depth charges off HOSTE, which exploded. | |
| The explosion blew in the bottom of NEGRO, which sank quickly. | |
| HOSTE was also seriously damaged and she sank later. | |
| 50 crew from the two ships died. |