HMS Tilbury was a S-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that served during the First World War.

Torpedo armament was four 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes in two twin rotating mounts on the ships' centreline and two 18-inch (457 mm) tubes at the break of the forecastle for easily aimed snap-shots in close action.

[6] Tilbury, one of three S-class destroyers ordered from Swan Hunter in the Twelfth War Programme, was laid down at their Wallsend shipyard in November 1917.

[8][9] Tilbury continued as part of the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean Fleet through 1919.

[10][11][12] The Royal Navy had a surplus of modern destroyers following the First World War, and by October 1920, Tilbury was listed as in reserve at the Nore.