Editing Beagle-class destroyer (section)

==Service==
As the ''Beagle''s completed in 1910, they joined the 1st Destroyer Flotilla of the Royal Navy's [[Home Fleet]].<ref name="conways06 p74"/> but in 1913 they were sent to the [[Mediterranean]],<ref name="Manning p26">Manning 1961, p. 26.</ref> where they formed the 5th Flotilla, remaining there on the outbreak of the [[First World War]].<ref name="conways06 p74"/> They were officially redesignated the G class in October 1913 as part of a general re-designation of the Royal Navy's destroyers.<ref name="conways06 p18,74">Gardiner and Gray 1985, pp. 18, 74.</ref> The ''Beagle'' class spent most of the war in the Mediterranean, with several taking part in the [[Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign|Dardanelles Campaign]]. Late in 1917, the ships of the class were recalled to British waters, where three ships were lost to accidents, two by running aground and one to collision.<ref name="conways06 p74"/>

Being coal-fired, they were obsolete by the end of the First World War and the surviving ships were all scrapped by the end of 1921.