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

[3][4] After commissioning she was deployed to the Channel Fleet and based at Shearness as part of the Medway Instructional Flotilla.

In December 1901 she was replaced in the flotilla by Mermaid, her crew was transferred to the latter ship,[5] and she paid off into the Fleet Reserve.

[6] On 14 July 1907, Lee, which had been operating with the Channel Fleet, collided with the Dutch protected cruiser Friesland off Start Point, Devon, holing the destroyer on her port quarter.

[8] NOTE: All tabular data under General Characteristics only from the listed Jane's Fighting Ships volume unless otherwise specified