HMS Violet was a Doxford three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1896–1897 Naval Estimates.

[5] On 9 July 1907 Violet collided with a sailing vessel, badly damaging the destroyer's bow and slightly injuring three of her crew.

After 30 September 1913, she was known as a C-class destroyer and had the letter ‘C’ painted on the hull below the bridge area and on either the fore or aft funnel.

[8] August 1914 found her in active commission in the 7th Destroyer Flotilla based at Devonport tendered to HMS Leander.

[11] Post World War I Stripped down to a Hulk Violet was towed to a position upstream of the Kincardine Bridge, Fife to strengthen the sea wall where she remained until 1959 when she was finally broken up to make way for the new Power Station Note: All tabular data under general characteristics only from the listed Jane's Fighting Ships volume unless otherwise specified