2-695-253 - Kirk & Sons of Cowes/Heritage-Images

The launch of 'Almirante Simpson' at J. Samuel White shipyard, Cowes, 26th February 1914. 'HMS Faulknor' was a British destroyer of the First World War. She was purchased by the Royal Navy whilst still under construction in Britain for the Chilean Navy who had ordered her in 1912 as part of the Almirante Lynch class. She was renamed after the Faulknor family of British nineteenth century naval officers. 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.