H.M.S. Lyra (1910)

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H.M.S. Lyra (1910)
Pendant Number: H.60 (1914)
H.67 (Jan-Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: John I. Thornycroft & Company[2]
Launched: 4 Oct, 1910[3]
Completed: Feb, 1911[4]
Sold: May, 1921[5]

H.M.S. Lyra was one of twenty destroyers of the Acorn class.

Service

In mid-1913, Lyra was active in Second Destroyer Flotilla.[6]

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 61.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 74.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 74.
  4. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 74.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 342.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 804.
  8. Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
  9. The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 342.
  10. Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
  11. The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 342.
  12. Davidson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/20. f. 21.
  13. The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 395q.
  14. Davidson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/20. f. 21.
  15. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 395p.
  16. Briggs Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/143/124. f. ?.
  17. Briggs Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/143/124. f. ?.
  18. Henniker-Heaton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/148. f. 353.
  19. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 395i.
  20. Henniker-Heaton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/148. f. 353.
  21. Cooper-Key Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/29. f. 15.
  22. Cooper-Key Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/29. f. 15.
  23. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 837.

Bibliography


Acorn Class Destroyer
Acorn Alarm Brisk Sheldrake Staunch
Cameleon Comet Goldfinch Nemesis Nereide
Nymphe Fury Hope Larne Lyra
Martin Minstrel Redpole Rifleman Ruby
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