HMS Pincher (1910)
 HMS Pincher was a coal-fired Beagle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by William Denny and Brothers and launched on 15 March 1910.Pincher spent the early part of the First World War in a local defence flotilla operating out of Portsmouth but by June 1915 had joined the 5th Destroyer Flotilla in the Aegean Sea operating with them until December 1917.In January 1918 she was moved to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla operating for a half year with the Northern Division of the Coast of Ireland Station.On 15 May 1918 Pincher was reassigned to the 4th Destroyer Flotilla at Devonport.On 24 July 1918 whilst escorting the Standard Tanker War Hostage from Devonport through the Western Approaches with Scorpion Pincher took a course that brought her dangerously close to the Seven Stones Reef between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (the reef that would claim the supertanker Torrey Canyon in 1967). 