| Name: | SYREN |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 24/11/1899 |
| Launched: | 20/12/1900 |
| Completed: | 09/08/1901 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 752 |
| Dimensions: | 390disp, 215.0 x 21.0 x 8.9(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x T3cyl, 6200ihp |
| 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 1 x 18.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 09/08/1901 | British Royal Navy |
| 14/09/1920 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Myrmidon Class of destroyers |
| Contract price £47,149 | |
| 01/05/1905: Ran onto rocks at Bere Island and broke back | |
| 04/03/1905: Removed from the rocks in two parts | |
| Replacement fore end constructed by Palmers. Cost £8,000 | |
| 04/11/1905: New bow section towed out of the Tyne by tug OCEAN | |
| 1913: Redesignated as a member of the B Class | |
| 14/09/1920: Sold for breaking up by Hayes at Porthcawl |
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Daily Mirror, Wednesday, 03/05/1905
Belfast News-Letter, Thursday, 09/11/1905