H.M.S. Gipsy (1897)

H.M.S. Gipsy (1897)
Pendant Number:	P.23 (1914) D.58 (Sep 1915) D.43 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Ordered:	1896-97 Programme
Laid down:	1 Oct, 1896
Launched:	9 Mar, 1897
Commissioned:	Jul, 1898
Sold:	1921

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

Service

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

With the assistance of some drifters, she sank the U 48 by gunfire off Goodwin Sands on 24 November, 1917.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander (T) Edmund J. Prendergast, 11 July, 1899  (lent for Annual Manoeuvres of 1899)
• Lieutenant & Commander Harry L. Wells, April, 1901 – 18 March, 1902  (including Annual Manoeuvres of 1901?)
• Lieutenant & Commander John G. de O. Coke, 18 March, 1902 – 18 March, 1902  (seemingly, appointed out the same day to Dasher)
• Commander William G. E. Ruck-Keene, 1 August, 1902 – 8 January, 1903
• Commander Roger J. B. Keyes, 8 April, 1903 – 1 May, 1903
• Commander Sydney S. Hall, 14 May, 1903 – 13 January, 1904
• Commander Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, 12 January, 1904 – 10 February, 1904
• Commander Cecil F. Lambert, 14 July, 1904 – 30 August, 1904  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1904)
• Lieutenant in Command Geoffrey B. Spicer-Simson, 30 August, 1904 – 2 November, 1904
• Lieutenant in Command Hugh P. Buckle, 3 January, 1905 – 30 January, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Hugh D. Marryat, 31 January, 1905 – 10 March, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Hubert S. Cardale, 10 March, 1905 – 1 June, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Harry L. Boyle, 1 June, 1905 – 10 October, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Denis G. Thynne, 10 October, 1905 – 28 May, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander William G. Howard, 28 May, 1906 – 29 January, 1908
• Commander John G. de O. Coke, 29 January, 1908 – 29 September, 1908
• Lieutenant & Commander Charles E. L. Thomas, 29 September, 1908 – 8 January, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander Stephen H. Morres, 16 January, 1909 – 22 February, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Frederic A. H. Russel, 17 April, 1910 – May, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Henry C. Rawlings, May, 1910 – 15 August, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Robert F. Veasey, 15 August, 1910 – 2 May, 1911
• Lieutenant & Commander Stuart E. Holder, 9 October, 1911 – November, 1912
• Lieutenant in Command John J. C. Ridley, 18 November, 1913
• Lieutenant in Command Edmond M. Bowly, 14 April, 1914 – 1 February, 1915
• Lieutenant in Command William W. Skynner, 9 April, 1915 – 9 January, 1916
• Lieutenant in Command Leslie T. Creery Hill, 9 January, 1916 – 16 March, 1917
• Acting Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. Frederick W. Robinson, 16 March, 1917
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Charles S. C. Steen, 14 October, 1918 – 6 March, 1919

See Also

• Wikipedia