HMS Blonde was the lead ship of her class of scout cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

The ship was temporarily assigned to the First Destroyer Flotilla before she joined the Fourth Battle Squadron in 1913.

[1] Her main armament consisted of 10 breech-loading (BL) four-inch Mk VII guns.

[5] She was completed in May 1911[1] with Captain Thomas Bonham in command[6] and became the leader of the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean through 1912.

He was relieved by Captain William Blunt on 25 April and transferred to the scout cruiser, Fearless, when that ship was assigned to the flotilla.

[6] The ship had been transferred to the Fourth Battle Squadron as of 18 June[8] and Captain Albert Scott assumed command on 5 July.

[6] The ship was still assigned to the Fourth Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow at the start of the war in August 1914.

[17] The sisters were listed for sale by 18 March 1920[18] and Blonde was sold for scrap on 6 May to T. C. Pas, and was broken up in the Netherlands.