HMS Faulknor was a British destroyer of the First World War. She was purchased by the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 whilst still under construction in Britain for the Chilean Navy

Chilean Navy

-Independence Wars of Chile and Peru :The Chilean Navy dates back to 1817. A year before, following the Battle of Chacabuco, General Bernardo O'Higgins prophetically declared "this victory and another hundred shall be of no significance if we do not gain control of the sea".This led to the...

 who had ordered her in 1912 as part of the Almirante Lynch class

Almirante Lynch class destroyer

The Almirante Lynch class destroyers were a group of ships built for the Chilean Navy just before World War I. The Chileans had long been customers of British shipyards and ordered six ships from J. Samuel White in 1911. These destroyers were a private design by J. Samuel White that were...

. She was renamed after the Faulknor family

Faulknor family

The Faulknor family was an English family from Northamptonshire, of which several generations served as officers in the Royal Navy.-William Faulknor:...

 of British nineteenth century naval officers.

Faulknor was a large destroyer leader that served throughout the war in the Dover Patrol

Dover Patrol

The Dover Patrol was a Royal Navy command of the First World War, notable for its involvement in the Zeebrugge Raid on 22 April 1918. The Dover Patrol formed a discrete unit of the Royal Navy based at Dover and Dunkirk for the duration of the First World War...

, a force tasked with preventing German raiding craft gaining access to the English Channel

English Channel

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 where vulnerable troopship

Troopship

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s and other targets were constantly available. Faulknor conducted numerous operations against the coastline of German-held Belgium

Belgium

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, including participating in both the First

First Ostend Raid

The First Ostend Raid was the first of two attacks by the Royal Navy on the German-held port of Ostend during the late spring of 1918 during the First World War...

 and Second Ostend Raid

Second Ostend Raid

The Second Ostend Raid was the latter of two failed attempts made during the spring of 1918 by the United Kingdom's Royal Navy to block the channels accessing the Belgian port of Ostend as a part of their conflict with the German Empire during World War I...

during the spring of 1918.

In 1920, following the end of the war, Faulknor and her surviving sisters were all returned to Chile, where she served as Almirante Riveros until 1933.