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<div name=fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Salmon'' (1895)|comm=14 Jan, 1896{{NLMar96|p. 260}} |fatedate=1912{{Conways1860|p. 92}} |order=1893-94{{Conways1860|p. 92}} |name=Salmon |launch=15 Jan, 1895{{Conways1860|p. 92}} |builder=[[Earle's Shipbuilding]]{{Conways1860|p. 92}} |laid=12 Mar, 1894{{Conways1860|p. 92}} |fate=Broken up |pend= |fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career> '''H.M.S. ''Salmon''''' was one of forty-two [["A" Class Destroyer (1894)|"A" class destroyers]] built for the [[Royal Navy]] &mdash; a "27 knotter". ==Service== She collided with the Great Eastern Railway Company's steamship ''Cambridge'' (Captain Horne) at 10.30pm on 2 December, 1901 while under the command of [[Harry Charles John Roberts West]]. She had been entering Harwich Harbour along with her flotilla, which was being led by {{UK-Cheerful}} under the command of Commander [[Frederic William Dean]]. Two men named Bartlett and Amering were killed when ''Cambridge'' struck ''Salmon'' just above the No. 4 boiler. A coroner's inquiry was held on 18 December with representatives of the Great Eastern Railway Company, the Admiralty and for Captain Horne personally. Attempts to illustrate the nature of the accident using first models and later scarf pins and wax matches on a large navigational map to represent ships. Lieutenant West resisted insinuations that ''Salmon'' was too far behind his next ahead, {{UK-Haughty}}. Her lamps were also examined to determine if they were not bright enough.{{ToL|Accident to the Salmon|Thursday, Dec 19, 1901; pg. 7; Issue 36642}} ''Salmon'' was one of seventeen destroyers of the Reserve Division which left Sheerness on 1 July, 1905 for Spithead under the overall command of Commander [[Reginald Graham Gregory|R. G. Gregory]] in {{UK-1Spitfire|f=p}}.<ref>"Naval And Military Intelligence." ''The Times'' (London, England), Monday, Jul 03, 1905; pg. 12; Issue 37749.</ref> She and sixteen other destroyers of the Reserve Division arrived at Sheerness on 13 July 1905 and proceeded to Chatham.<ref>"Naval And Military Intelligence." ''The Times'' (London, England), Friday, Jul 14, 1905; pg. 10; Issue 37759.</ref> Like many "A" class ships, she was broken up before the war. ==Fittings and Performance== Lionel Dawson wrote of his experiences in command of the destroyer.{{DawsonFlotillas|pp. 86-87}} Like many of her class, the helm was situated behind the platform for the 12-pdr gun, with the helmsman peering ahead through a small gap under the platform and over the foredeck. It was very hard to see. The common workaround was to construct a new wheel on the gun platform and connect it below by shafts and screws. In ''Salmon'', this wheel was actually a training wheel for a 4.7-in gun, and it required 32 revolutions to move the rudder from hard port to hard starboard. Vexingly, the action of this wheel was the opposite to what a ship's wheel ordinarily delivered. Her eight boilers seemed to be more than enough for her. Dawson's engineer would joke and say that "the last two or three [boilers] only made the deck hot, since the engines could not take up the steam from them." ==Captains== Dates of appointment are provided when known. <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Salmon''"> {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Charles James Collins|nick=Charles J. Collins|appt=14 January, 1896{{NLMar96|p. 260}}|end=4 June, 1896|precBy=New Command}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=John Frederick Ernest Green|nick=John F. E. Green|appt=12 September, 1896|end=15 February, 1898}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=James Rose Price Hawksley|nick=James R. P. Hawksley|appt=10 September, 1898<ref>Hawksley Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 289.</ref>|end=8 October, 1898<ref>Hawksley Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 289.</ref>}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Guy de Lancy Ormsby Johnson|nick=Guy de L. O. Johnson|appt=25 August, 1900|end=13 September, 1900}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Guy de Lancy Ormsby Johnson|nick=Guy de L. O. Johnson|appt=16 November, 1900|end=5 December, 1900<ref>Year given as 1901 in Service Record, but 1900 seems clear.</ref>}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Harry Charles John Roberts West|nick=Harry C. J. R. West|appt=August, 1901<ref>West Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/249.|D7602675}} f. 384.</ref>|end=17 January, 1902<ref>West Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/249.|D7602675}} f. 384.</ref>}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Frederick Burnaby Noble|nick=Frederick B. Noble|appt=25 March, 1903{{NLMay03|p. 301''a''}}|end=21 December, 1903<ref>Noble Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/248.|D7603034}} f. 282.</ref>}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Richard Forster White|nick=Richard F. White|appt=21 December, 1903<ref>White Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/373.|D7603157}} f. 422.</ref>{{NLOct04|p. 374}}|end=28 October, 1904<ref>White Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/373.|D7603157}} f. 422.</ref>}} {{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Hubert Seeds Monroe|nick=Hubert S. Monroe|appt=20 April, 1905<ref>Monroe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 438.</ref>|end=3 August, 1906<ref>Monroe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 438.</ref>}} {{Tenure|rank={{GunnerRN}} in Command|name=John Reep|nick=John Reep|appt=3 August, 1906|end=4 September, 1906}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Norman Hunter Carter|nick=Norman H. Carter|appt=11 September, 1906<ref>Carter Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/301.|D7603087}} f. 340.</ref>|end=25 May, 1907<ref>Carter Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/301.|D7603087}} f. 340.</ref>}} {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Louis Herbert Crozier|nick=Louis H. Crozier|appt=10 November, 1907|end=1 February, 1908}} {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Charles Edward Lloyd Thomas|nick=Charles E. L. Thomas|appt=1 February, 1908<ref>Thomas Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/44/272.|D7603057}} f. 307.</ref>|end=29 September, 1908<ref>Thomas Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/44/272.|D7603057}} f. 307.</ref>}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Cecil Rupert Hemans|nick=Cecil R. Hemans|appt=29 September, 1908<ref>Hemans Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/47/151.|D7603858}} f. 356.</ref>{{NLOct08|p. 371}}|end=20 March, 1909<ref>Hemans Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/47/151.|D7603858}} f. 356.</ref>}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Ralph Vincent Eyre|nick=Ralph V. Eyre|appt=20 March, 1909{{NLJul09|p. 371}}|end=1 December, 1909}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Norman Angel Kyrle Money|nick=Norman A. K. Money|appt=1 December, 1909{{NLJan10|p. 371}}|end=}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Charles Harold Jones|nick=Charles H. Jones|appt=15 August, 1910|end=September, 1910}} {{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Lionel George Dawson|nick=Lionel G. Dawson|appt=21 December, 1910{{NLMar11|p. 371}}<ref>Dawson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|D7576679}} f. 208.</ref>|end=24 May, 1911<ref>Dawson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|D7576679}} f. 208.</ref>}} </div name=fredbot:officeCapt> ==See Also== {{refbegin}} {{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Salmon_(1895)}} {{refend}} ==Footnotes== {{reflist}} ==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} <div name=fredbot:bib></div name=fredbot:bib> {{refend}} {{Footer "A" Class Destroyer (1894)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Salmon}} {{CatShipDestroyer|UK}}

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