H.M.S. Albacore (1906)

H.M.S. Albacore (1906)
Builder:	Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Ordered:	Purchased 1909
Launched:	19 Sep, 1906
Completed:	27 Mar, 1909
Sold:	1 Aug, 1919

H.M.S. Albacore was one of twenty-four "B" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "30 knotter".

Along with Bonetta, Albacore was one of two Palmer destroyers built "on spec" and subsequently purchased in 1909 by the Admiralty to replace destroyers lost in accidents.

Service

In mid-1911, part of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla, part of Home Fleet.

On 29 October 1917, Lieutenant R.N.R. Gilbert Henry Flavel was cautioned following a collision between Albacore and the collier Sanpan.

Guns

By 1912-13, her three 12-pdr P. I mountings bore register numbers 274, 275 and 276 and were fitted with "Training Gear".

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant John G. de O. Coke, 17 June, 1909 – 6 August, 1909
• Commander Edward O. Gladstone, 6 August, 1909 – 15 August, 1910
• Commander Robert W. Myburgh, 15 August, 1910 – 25 July, 1911
• Commander Forster D. Arnold-Forster, 1 August, 1911 – 10 January, 1912
• Commander Julian H. Woodbridge, January, 1912 – 3 December, 1913
• Lieutenant-Commander Lawrence D'O. Bignell, 3 December, 1913 – 17 January, 1914  (and in command of reduced T.B.Ds.)
• Commander John F. H. Cole, January, 1914 – May, 1914
• Lieutenant in Command Arthur F. E. Palliser, August, 1914 – late 1914
• Lieutenant-Commander (retired) Percy J. Helyar, 26 October, 1914 – 8 February, 1916
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Lawrence W. Newbery-Boschetti, 9 March, 1916 – 11 April, 1917
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Gilbert H. Flavel, 19 June, 1917 – 19 October, 1917
• Acting Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. Robert McMurray, 12 January, 1918 – 12 September, 1918  (apparently went to Avon on 12 Sep, 1918)
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command William H. Brown, 12 September, 1918 – 10 March, 1919

See Also

• Wikipedia