H.M.S. Flying Fish (1897)

H.M.S. Flying Fish (1897)
Pendant Number:	P.86 (1914) D.57 (Sep 1915) D.40 (Jan 1918) H.69 (Sep 1918)
Builder:	Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Ordered:	1895-96 Programme
Laid down:	9 Aug, 1896
Launched:	4 Mar, 1897
Commissioned:	Jun, 1898
Sold:	Aug, 1919

H.M.S. Flying Fish was one of forty "C" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "30 knotter".

Service

In mid-1913, she was operating with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla.

On 22 July, 1913 while under the command ofLt. in Command Michael K. H. Kennedy, Flying Fish collided with a buoy at Dover. The Admiral of Patrols John de Robeck informed Kennedy that he had demonstrated a lack of seamanlike care and forethought on the occasion.

Captains

With some ambiguity, it somehow seems that Flying Fish and Spiteful shared commanders Nicholson and Sparks.

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Arthur G. M. Meredyth, 3 November, 1898 – 3 November, 1899
• Commander Morgan Singer, 3 October, 1899 – 11 January, 1901
• Commander Douglas R. M. Nicholson, 11 January, 1901  (also in command of Spiteful)
• Lieutenant & Commander Hugh P. Buckle, 16 December, 1901 – 23 October, 1903
• Lieutenant & Commander Lewis G. E. Crabbe, 30 September, 1903 – c. 23 October, 1903
• Lieutenant & Commander Ernest E. Parker, 23 October, 1903 – 28 November, 1904
• Lieutenant & Commander The Hon. Edward B. S. Bingham, August, 1905  (temporarily loaned)
• Commander Charles H. Morgan, 24 August, 1905 – 28 May, 1906  (and as Commander (D), Torpedo Craft in Commission in Reserve)
• Lieutenant in Command George H. H. Holden, 28 May, 1906 – 26 July, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander William H. H. S. Thomson, 28 March, 1905 – 10 April, 1905  (temporary)
• Lieutenant & Commander William H. H. S. Thomson, 26 July, 1906 – 21 May, 1908
• Lieutenant-Commander Reginald C. L. Owen, 21 May, 1908 – 21 January, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander Geoffrey P. Russell, 21 January, 1909 – 18 October, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander Gordon A. Coles, 19 October, 1909 – 12 January, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander William S. F. Forbes, 12 January, 1910 – 1 February, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander John P. Champion, 1 February, 1910 – 26 November, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Michael K. H. Kennedy, 26 November, 1910 – 14 August, 1913
• Lieutenant & Commander Montague R. Bernard, 2 July, 1912 – 29 July, 1912  (for manoeuvres)
• Lieutenant & Commander Lawrence D'O. Bignell, 14 August, 1913 – 3 December, 1913
• Lieutenant in Command Philip W. S. King, 3 February, 1914 – 6 April, 1914  (followed by about a month in dockyard hands)
• Lieutenant-Commander Philip W. S. King, 19 May, 1914 – 24 October, 1915
• Lieutenant in Command John H. Jauncey, 24 October, 1915 – 10 February, 1916
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command William H. Dunster, 24 January, 1916 – 31 May, 1917
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command William H. Dunster, 5 December, 1917 – 28 February, 1918
• Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. Robert M. Gardner, 28 February, 1918 – mid October, 1918^{[Fact Check]}
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Percy Younghusband, 21 October, 1918 – 26 November, 1918
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Geoffrey A. Robinson, 26 November, 1918 – 28 February, 1919

See Also

• Wikipedia