H.M.S. Kale (1904)

H.M.S. Kale (1904)
Pendant Number:	N.45 (1914) D.23 (Sep 1915) D.47 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	Hawthorn Leslie & Company
Ordered:	1903-04 Programme
Laid down:	16 Feb, 1904
Launched:	8 Nov, 1904
Commissioned:	Aug, 1905
Mined:	27 Mar, 1918
Fate:	in North Sea

H.M.S. Kale was one of 36 destroyers of the "River" class.

Service

In mid-1913, she was serving in the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla.

Kale, along with forty men, was lost to a British mine in the North Sea on 27 March, 1918.

Radio

In 1909, she became one of forty-three destroyers so far fitted with Destroyer Sets.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander Walter L. Allen, 15 July, 1905 – 2 October, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Walter Hose, 10 October, 1905 – 1 January, 1906
• Lieutenant-Commander John A. Gregory, 1 January, 1906 – 28 May, 1906
• Commander Alan C. Bruce, 28 May, 1906 – 1 October, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander Cecil H. Fox, 1 October, 1906 – 14 January, 1908
• Commander Alan C. Bruce, 14 January, 1908 – 20 January, 1909
• Commander Bernhard A. Pratt-Barlow, 26 January, 1909 – 23 August, 1910
• Lieutenant-Commander Vaughan A. E. Hanning-Lee, 23 August, 1910 – 30 August, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Arthur M. Lecky, 30 August, 1910 – 27 January, 1911
• Commander Francis R. Scarlett, 27 January, 1911
• Lieutenant & Commander Clive C. H. Maitland-Addison, 14 June, 1911 – 5 July, 1911  (temporary)
• Commander Claude L. Cumberlege, 17 August, 1911 – 23 August, 1912
• Commander Berwick Curtis, 23 August, 1912 – June, 1913
• Commander Berwick Curtis, June, 1914 – 6 September, 1915
• Commander Henry Haire-Forster, 6 September, 1915 – 14 April, 1917
• Commander Harold E. Denison, 14 April, 1917 – 27 March, 1918  (ship lost under his command)

See Also

• Wikipedia