HMS Ribble was a Yarrow-type River-class destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1901 – 1902 Naval Estimates.

During these exercises Attentive rammed and sank Gala then collided with Ribble and holed her below the waterline.

[6] In July 1914 she was on China Station based at Hong Kong tendered to HMS Triumph.

[7] With the fall of Qingdao and the sinking of SMS Emden, she was redeployed to the 5th Destroyer Flotilla in the British Mediterranean Fleet in November 1914 accompanying Triumph in support of the Dardanelles Campaign.

W. Ward of Sheffield for breaking, appropriately given her name, on the River Ribble at Preston, Lancashire.