HMS Cockatrice (1912)

HMS Cockatrice was an Acasta-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy before the First World War. She was one of twenty destroyers of the class, sometimes also referred to as the "K" class.

Cockatrice was ordered as part of the 1911-12 building program. She was built by J. Samuel White & Company, at their Cowes shipyard. The ship was laid down on 21 February 1912, launched on 11 January 1913, and completed in May 1913.

During World War I, Cockatrice served with the Grand Fleet and participated in various patrols and convoy escort duties in the North Sea and surrounding waters. Acasta-class destroyers were primarily designed for fleet screening and anti-submarine warfare.

Details of Cockatrice's service are often intertwined with the broader activities of her flotilla and the Grand Fleet as a whole. Specific actions and engagements involving Cockatrice would be found in historical records detailing naval operations during the war.

She survived the war and was sold for scrap on 9 May 1921.