HMS Boyne was a River-class destroyer

River class destroyer

The River-class destroyer was a heterogeneous class of torpedo boat destroyer built to assorted builders' designs for the Royal Navy at the turn of the 20th century, which saw extensive service in World War I...

 named after the River Boyne

River Boyne

The River Boyne is a river in Leinster, Ireland, the course of which is about long. It rises at Trinity Well, Newbury Hall, near Carbury, County Kildare, and flows towards the Northeast through County Meath to reach the Irish Sea between Mornington, County Meath and Baltray, County Louth. Salmon...

. She was the fifth Royal Navy ship to bear the name.

Construction

She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and launched in 1904. She featured flush funnel tops, as did others of her class. She was 220 feet (67.1 m) long, displaced around 550 tons and her 7000 HP produced 26 knots (51 km/h).

Armament

She was armed with one twelve pounder and was later uprated with four. She carried two torpedo tubes.