HMS Pheasant (1916)

HMS Pheasant was a Royal Navy Admiralty M-class destroyer constructed and then operational in the First World War. She hit and was sunk by a mine in 1917.

The vessel was built at Fairfield Shipyard on the Clyde and launched on 23 October 1916.

Sinking
On the morning of 1 March 1917 the destroyer was taken part in a standard patrol of the Orkney areas. She departed Scapa Flow to patrol west of the anchorage and contacted a mine. The destroyer sank with the loss of 88 lives. The wreck lies roughly E-W, in 82m depth of water at N58 52.07 W3 27.41 and was found by divers from the Army Sub-Aqua Club on 13 May 1996.