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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Plover''''' was one of 6 gunboats of the [[Pigmy Class Gunboat (1888)|Pigmy class]].
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Plover''''' was one of six gunboats of the [[Pigmy Class Gunboat (1888)|''Pigmy'' class]].


==Service==
==Service==
She was commissioned at Devonport on 3 July, 1889.  By 1891, she was assigned to the [[China Station]].{{NLMar91|p. 244}}
In 1913, she was in Gibraltar, busy with boom defence.{{NLMar13|p. 420}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Ernest Goldfinch Rason|nick=Ernest G. Rason|appt=3 July, 1889{{NLJul90|p. 240}}|end=31 December, 1890|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lewis Knox Bell|nick=Lewis K. Bell|appt=3 January, 1891{{NLMar92|p. 244}}|end=13 November, 1892}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Francis Charles Bathurst Addington|nick=Francis C. B. Addington|appt=1 September, 1892<ref>Addington Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/10.}} f. 17.</ref>|end=26 November, 1895<ref>Addington Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/10.}} f. 17.</ref>|ass=14 November, 1892<ref>Addington Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/10.}} f. 17.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Spencer Victor Yorke de Horsey|nick=Spencer V. Y. de Horsey|appt=18 October, 1895{{NLMar96|p. 249}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Carlton Valentine de Mornay Cowper|nick=Carlton V. de Mornay Cowper|appt=23 July, 1898<ref>Cowper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/262.|D7602197}}  f. 307.</ref>{{NLJan01|p. 293}}|end=30 July, 1901<ref>Cowper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/262.|D7602197}}  f. 307.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Hector Lloyd Watts-Jones|nick=Hector L. Watts-Jones|appt=30 July, 1901<ref>Watts-Jones Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/235.|D8112211}} f. 257.</ref>{{NLMay02|p. 293}}|end=5 July, 1902<ref>Watts-Jones Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/235.|D8112211}} f. 257.</ref>}}
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==See Also==
==See Also==
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Latest revision as of 13:18, 20 October 2017

H.M.S. Plover (1888)
Builder: Pembroke Royal Dockyard[1]
Launched: 18 Oct, 1888[Citation needed]
Commissioned: 3 Jul, 1889[2]
Sold: 27 Apr, 1927[Citation needed]

H.M.S. Plover was one of six gunboats of the Pigmy class.

Service

She was commissioned at Devonport on 3 July, 1889. By 1891, she was assigned to the China Station.[3]

In 1913, she was in Gibraltar, busy with boom defence.[4]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 113.
  2. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1891). p. 244.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1891). p. 244.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 420.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1890). p. 240.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1892). p. 244.
  7. ↑ Addington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/10. f. 17.
  8. ↑ Addington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/10. f. 17.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 249.
  10. ↑ Cowper Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/262. f. 307.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1901). p. 293.
  12. ↑ Cowper Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/262. f. 307.
  13. ↑ Watts-Jones Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/235. f. 257.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1902). p. 293.
  15. ↑ Watts-Jones Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/235. f. 257.

Bibliography


Pigmy Class Gunboat
  Pigmy Pheasant Partridge  
  Peacock Pigeon Plover  
<– Grasshopper Class Small Fry (UK) Redbreast Class –>
<– Bramble Class Gunboats (UK) Redbreast Class –>
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