H.M.S. Hind (1911)

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H.M.S. Hind (1911)
Pendant Number: H.47 (1914)
H.40 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown & Company[2]
Ordered: 1910-11 Programme[3]
Launched: 28 Jul, 1911[4]
Completed: Dec, 1911[5]
Sold: 9 May, 1921[6]
Fate: Broken up Jun 1924[7]

H.M.S. Hind was one of 29 destroyers of the Acheron class.

Radio

She was one of 18 Acheron class destroyers fitted with W/T in 1912, becoming one of 123 destroyers so far fitted with Destroyer Sets.[8]

Service

Hind joined the First Destroyer Flotilla sometime before February, 1913.

In June 1914, planned alterations in Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, when the ship was presumably serving with the First Destroyer Flotilla were to be deferred:[9]

  • removal of strips under cocoanut matting
  • fitting of boom to stern
  • addition of loading lights to guns

In July, 1914, Hind was serving in First Destroyer Flotilla, part of First Fleet.[10]

In May of 1916, Hind left 1 D.F. with seven other destroyers to screen the Third Battle Squadron. Around September, this new formation would be given the designation of 1. D.F..

In August 1917, Hind was sent to the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla, which was operating out of Devonport.

In March, 1918, she joined the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla, a formation then numbering over forty destroyers in the Mediterranean.

She was reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport on 13 October, 1919.[11]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  8. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. Wireless Appendix, p. 6.
  9. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 36 of 19 June, 1914.
  10. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 109 of 10 July, 1914.
  11. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 787.
  12. Corlett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/47. f. 252.
  13. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 394p.
  14. Corlett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/47. f. 252.
  15. Woodward Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83. f. 211.
  16. Woodward Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83. f. 211.
  17. The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 395e.
  18. Maxwell Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/50/256. f. ?.
  19. The Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 394k.
  20. Reinold Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/7. f. 410.
  21. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 394k.
  22. Reinold Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/7. f. 410.
  23. Bush Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/129. f. 485.
  24. Bush Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/129. f. 485.
  25. Simson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/149. f. 150.
  26. The Navy List. (July, 1919). p. 814.
  27. Simson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/149. f. 150.

Bibliography


Acheron Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Goshawk Hind Hornet Hydra Defender
Druid Sandfly Jackal Tigress Lapwing
  Lizard Phoenix Ferret Forester  
Yarrow Specials
  Archer Attack  
Thornycroft Specials
  Acheron Ariel  
Parsons Specials
  Badger Beaver  
Firedrake/Yarrow Specials
  Firedrake Lurcher Oak  
Australian type
  Parramatta Warrego Yarra  
  Huon Swan Torrens  
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