HMS Gala was a Yarrow type River-class destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1903 – 1904 Naval Estimates.

[7] The design of Gala was based on the River-class destroyers ordered from Yarrow in the 1901–1902 programme (in particular Ribble).

[6] In October 1905, Gala was ordered to transfer to Portland, where she was to serve as the Senior Officer's ship of the Second Destroyer Division.

[citation needed] On the afternoon of 27 April 1908, the Eastern Destroyer Flotilla, consisting of 15 vessels, in company with the scouts Adventure and Attentive, left Harwich for the purpose of firing exercise and night manoeuvres.

A little after midnight all the vessels having their lights masked, Gala collided with Attentive being struck by the latter's ram in the after part of the engine room and cut in two but only one man was killed.