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

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|Ship caption=''Coquette''{{'}}s sister-ship, ''Cynthia''
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| Ship country= United Kingdom
| Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}}
| Ship name=''Coquette''
| Ship ordered=1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates
| Ship builder= [[Thornycroft|John I Thornycroft]], [[Chiswick]]
| Ship yard number=319
| Ship laid down=8 June 1896
| Ship launched=25 November 1897
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| Ship commissioned=January 1899
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| Ship fate=Mined, 7 March 1916
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|Header caption=<ref name=JFS89>''Jane’s All the World's Fighting Ships'' (1898), pp.84–85.</ref><ref name=JFS19>''Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War I'' (1919), p.76</ref>
|Ship class=[[D-class destroyer (1913)|Two-funnel, 30-knot]] [[destroyer]]
|Ship displacement=*{{Convert|270|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} standard
*{{Convert|352|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} full load
|Ship length={{Convert|210|ft|m|abbr=on}} [[Length overall|o/a]]
|Ship beam={{convert|19|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught={{convert|7|ft|8|in|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship power={{Convert|5700|SHP|kW|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=*4 × Thornycroft [[water tube boiler]]s
*2 × vertical triple-expansion [[steam engine]]s
*2 shafts
|Ship speed= {{convert|30|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}
|Ship range=*80&nbsp;tons coal
*{{Convert|1310|nmi|km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|11|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}
| Ship complement= 65 officers and men
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| Ship armament=*1 × [[QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun|QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I]] L/40 gun on a P Mark I low angle mount
*5 × [[QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss|QF 6-pdr 8 cwt L/40 gun]] on a Mark I* low angle mount
*2 × single [[Torpedo tube|tube]]s for [[British 18 inch torpedo|18-inch (450 mm) torpedoes]]
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For other ships of this name, see ''[[HMS Coquette]]''.
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'''HMS ''Coquette''''' was a [[D-class destroyer (1913)|two funnel, 30-knot]] [[destroyer]] ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1896 – 1897 Naval Estimates. She was the fifth ship to carry this name.<ref name=JFS89/><ref name=JFS19/> She was launched in 1897, served in home waters before World War I, and as a tender to the gunnery school at Sheerness during the war. She was sold for breaking in 1920.

==Construction==
She was laid down as yard number 319 on 8 June 1896 at the [[Thornycroft|John I Thornycroft and Company]] shipyard at [[Chiswick]] on the River Thames.  She was launched on 25 November 1897.  During her builder's trials her maximum average speed was {{convert|30.3|kn|km/h}}, then proceeded to Portsmouth to have her armament fitted.  She was completed and accepted by the Royal Navy in January 1899.  During her acceptance trials and work ups her average sea speed was 25 knots.<ref name=JFS89/><ref name=JFS19/>

==Service history==
===Early service===
After commissioning she was assigned to the Chatham Division of the Harwich Flotilla, and from 1899 she was part of the [[Medway]] Instructional Flotilla under the command of Lieutenant [[Charles Pipon Beaty-Pownall]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=30 January 1900 |page=11 |issue=36052}}</ref> She was replaced in the flotilla on 26 February 1900 by {{HMS|Spitfire|1895|6}}, to which Lieutenant Beaty-Pownell and the crew also transferred.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=26 February 1900 |page=11 |issue=36075}}</ref>

Commander [[Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 4th Baronet|Michael Culme-Seymour]] was appointed in command on 31 August 1900.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=18 August 1900 |page=8 |issue=36224}}</ref> In May 1902 she served in the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], and was involved in a collision with the destroyer {{HMS|Thrasher|1895|2}}, when she had her [[Bow (ship)|bows]] stove in.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=16 May 1902 |page=11 |issue=36769}}</ref> After repairs, she was [[Ship's tender|tender]] to {{HMS|Orion|1879|6}}, the [[Mediterranean Fleet]] destroyer [[depot ship]]. Commander [[Sir Douglas Egremont Robert Brownrigg, 4th Baronet|Sir Douglas Egremont Robert Brownrigg]] was appointed in command after he arrived at Malta in late September 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=8 September 1902 |page=8 |issue=36867}}</ref>

On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyer classes were to be designated by alpha characters starting with the letter 'A'. Since her design speed was 30 knots and she had two funnels she was assigned to the D class. After 30 September 1913, she was known as a D-class destroyer and had the letter "D" painted on the hull below the bridge area and on either the fore or aft funnel.<ref name=Conway>''Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1906 to 1922'' (1985), pp. 17–19.</ref>

===World War I===
August 1914 found her in active commission at The Nore Local Flotilla based at Sheerness tendered to HMS ''Actaeon'', the gunnery school. She remained in this deployment for the duration of the First World War until her loss.<ref name=ND>{{cite web|title=HMS ''Coquette'' at the Naval Database website|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/C/01122.html|access-date=20 June 2013|archive-date=17 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217221350/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/C/01122.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Loss===
She was lost on 7 March 1916 at the entrance to Black Deep off the East Coast near Harwich after striking a mine laid by the German submarine {{GS|UC-10||2}}. She sank in the North Sea at an approximate position of {{coord|51|45|N|01|30|E|type:waterbody|display=inline,title}} (about {{convert|10|nmi|km}} East of [[Clacton-on-Sea]]) with the loss of 22 crewmembers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Loss data from U-Boat.net|url=http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/1435.html|access-date=20 June 2013}}</ref>

==Pennant numbers==
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!Pennant number<ref name=AS>{{cite web|title="Arrowsmith" List – Part 1 Destroyer Prototypes through "River" Class|url=http://www.gwpda.org/naval/s0420000.htm|accessdate=1 Jun 2013}}</ref> ||From||To
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|N21||6 Dec 1914||1 Sep 1915
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|D37||1 Sep 1915||7 Mar 1916
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==References==
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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}}
* {{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=Jane|first=Fred T.|title=Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships 1898|year=1969|publisher=first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1898, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company|location=New York|orig-year=1898}}
* {{cite book|last=Jane|first=Fred T.|title=Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I|year=1990|publisher=Jane’s Publishing |orig-year=1919|isbn=1-85170-378-0}}
* {{cite book|last=Lyon|first=David|title=The First Destroyers|year=2001|orig-year=1996|publisher=Caxton Editions|location=London|isbn=1-84067-364-8}}
* {{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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