HMS Recruit (1916)

HMS Recruit was a Royal Navy R-class destroyer constructed and then operational in the First World War.

The destroyer was constructed by William Doxford & Sons and launched on 9 December 1916. The ship was completed in April 1917. The ship was 276 ft (84.1 m) in length, with a beam of 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m), a displacement of 975 long tons (991 t) standard and an average crew complement of 82.

In May 1917 the vessel was assigned to the tenth destroyer force as part of Harwich Force. The destroyer was sunk by a torpedo from German U-boat SMU UB-16 in 1917. The sinking occurred in the North Sea 3 miles north of the North Hinder light vessel, with 54 persons lost.