H.M.S. Snipe (1897)

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H.M.S. Snipe (1897)
Pendant Number: N.N5 (Nov 1919)[1]
Builder: Yarrow & Company[2]
Launched: 1897[3]
Sold: 20 Nov, 1919[4]
Fate: at Hong Kong

H.M.S. Snipe was one of four Heron Class river gunboats completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Re-commissioned at Woosung on 19 March, 1910, but attached to Devonport.[5]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 105.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 105.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 105.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 105.
  5. The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 376.
  6. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 31 Oct. 1901, p. 11.
  7. The Navy List. (July, 1908). p. 376.
  8. Barker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/173. f. 177.
  9. Barker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/173. f. 177.
  10. The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 376.
  11. Maxwell-Scott Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/49/49. f. 25.
  12. Maxwell-Scott Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/49/49. f. 25.


Heron Class River Gunboat
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