HMS Boxer (1894)

HMS Boxer was an Ardent-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy, launched on 28 November 1894.

At the launch on 28 November 1894 at Chiswick the destroyer was named by Miss Joan Thornycroft, daughter of the artist Hamo Thornycroft and niece of the yards founder John Isaac Thornycroft.

She served with the Mediterranean Squadron in 1901.

Boxer collided with the merchant ship SS St Patrick in the English Channel on 8 February 1918, sinking as a result.