HMS Falcon was a Fairfield three-funnel, 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1898 – 1899 Naval Estimates.

She spent her life in Home waters, was part of the Dover Patrol during World War I and was lost in a collision on 1 April 1918.

She was laid down as yard number 412 on 26 June 1899 at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company shipyard at Govan, Glasgow and launched on 29 December 1899.

[citation needed] On 28 October 1914 while on anti-submarine patrol off the Belgian coast at Westende with Syren she came under heavy accurate artillery fire from the shore.

She remained on station and returned fire until hit by an 8-inch[citation needed] shell which killed 8 personnel including her commanding officer and wounded 15.