H.M.S. Shark (1912)
| H.M.S. Shark (1912) | |
|---|---|
| Pendant Number: | H.04 (1914)[1] |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter[2] |
| Launched: | 30 Jul, 1912[3] |
| Completed: | Apr, 1913[4] |
| Sunk: | 31 May, 1916[5] |
| Fate: | in Battle of Jutland |
H.M.S. Shark was one of twenty Acasta class destroyers built for the Royal Navy shortly before the Great War. She was launched in 1912, one year after the previous H.M.S. Shark, an old 27-knotter, was scrapped. This ship would be lost at the Battle of Jutland, eventually to have her name taken by a destroyer launched in 1918.
Service
She left Wallsend-on-Tyne for Chatham on 23 November, 1912 to be commissioned with full crew to join the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla.[6]
In mid-1913, she was operating with the Third Destroyer Flotilla.[7]
Under command of Loftus W. Jones, Shark was one of seven Acasta class destroyers of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla that saw action during the Scarborough Raid on 16 December 1914, acting as one of three destroyers in the second division.[8]
Shark was lost in night action of the Battle of Jutland while operating with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla under the command of Commander Loftus William Jones.[9]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander Anselan J. B. Stirling, 1 October, 1912[10][11] – 6 October, 1914[12]
- Commander Harold V. Dundas, 1 August, 1914[13] – August, 1914[14]
- Commander Loftus W. Jones, 9 October, 1914[15] – 31 May, 1916 (fought in Scarborough Raid, but killed while in command in the Battle of Jutland)
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
- ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 307.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
- ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 23 Nov. 1912, p. 4.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 375.
- ↑ Naval Operations. Volume II. pp. 26-30.
- ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
- ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1914). p. 380a.
- ↑ Stirling Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/157. f. 175.
- ↑ Stirling Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/157. f. 175.
- ↑ Dundas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/341. f. 384.
- ↑ Dundas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/341. f. 384.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 380a. The Navy List consistently say 1912, but I think it is 1914, as he first appears with Shark in the November 1914 edition.
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