"HMS Skate - Destroyer That Brought Surrendered U-boats Into Harwich in World War I - Still Fights With the Navy. 30 December 1942, Liverpool, HMS Skate, Last Remaining Ship of the Old "admiralty R" Class and Oldest Ship in the British Navy, Is a Veteran of World War I. She Is the Only Three Funnelled Destroyer in the Navy and Was Built in 1917, Serving With the Harwich Flotilla." Starboard quarter view of HMS SKATE.