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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Spencer Allen Hickley|nick=Spencer A. Hickley|appt=2 May, 1905<ref>Hickley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602446}} f. 108.</ref>|end=26 January, 1907<ref>Hickley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602446}} f. 108.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Barnes Sparks|nick=John B. Sparks|appt=17 January, 1911{{NLJul13|p. 352}}<ref>Sparks Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 341.</ref>|end=1 July, 1913<ref>Sparks Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 341.</ref>}}
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Revision as of 21:49, 3 November 2015

H.M.S. Pathfinder (1904)
Pendant Number: N/A[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead[2]
Laid down: 15 Aug, 1903[3]
Launched: 16 Jul, 1904[4]
Commissioned: 18 Jul, 1905[5]
Torpedoed: 5 Sep, 1914[6]
Fate: by U 21 in North Sea[7]

H.M.S. Pathfinder was one of eight Sentinel class scout cruisers which entered Royal Navy service in 1905.

She was the first Royal Navy loss to submarine attack when sunk on 5 September, 1914.[8]

Service

Two hundred and sixty-one men died when Pathfinder was torpedoed on 5 September, 1914. This was nearly her entire complement.[9]

On 2 October 1914, the Admiralty inserted into its Weekly Orders a note of "Appreciation of Conduct of Officers and Crews of Ships recently destroyed", mentioning this ship as one of six whose men displayed "exemplary steadiness and coolness... in face of imminent death".[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  8. ↑ Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 163.
  9. ↑ Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. v.
  10. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 426 of 2 Oct, 1914.
  11. ↑ Hickley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 108.
  12. ↑ Hickley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 108.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 352.
  14. ↑ Waistell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 179/344.
  15. ↑ Waistell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 179/344.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 352.
  17. ↑ Sparks Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 341.
  18. ↑ Sparks Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 341.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 276-7.
  20. ↑ Leake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 69.
  21. ↑ Leake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 69.

Bibliography


Sentinel Class Scout Cruiser
Vickers/Sentinel Group
  Sentinel Skirmisher  
Cammell Laird/Pathfinder Group
  Pathfinder Patrol  
Fairfield/Forward Group
  Foresight Forward  
Armstrong/Adventure Group
  Adventure Attentive  
<– Gem Class Minor Cruisers (UK) Boadicea Class –>
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