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==Service==
==Service==
Re-commissioned at the Cape of Good Hope on 5 March, 1890.{{NLMar92|p. 256}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Reynell John Fortescue|nick=Reynell J. Fortescue|appt=7 October, 1886{{NLFeb88|p. 232}}|end=|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Reynell John Fortescue|nick=Reynell J. Fortescue|appt=7 October, 1886{{NLFeb88|p. 232}}|end=|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Frank Finnis|nick=Frank Finnnis|appt=30 November, 1889{{NLJul90|p. 251}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Frank Finnis|nick=Frank Finnnis|appt=30 November, 1889{{NLMar92|p. 256}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lewis Dod Sampson|nick=Lewis D. Sampson|appt=1 January, 1893{{NLApr94|p. 258}}|end=7 July, 1894|note=invalided with fever, soon to commit suicide}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lewis Dod Sampson|nick=Lewis D. Sampson|appt=1 January, 1893{{NLApr94|p. 258}}|end=7 July, 1894|note=invalided with fever, soon to commit suicide}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Lindsay Malcolm Leckie|nick=George L. M. Leckie|appt=10 July, 1894{{NLMar96|p. 267}}|end=26 May, 1897}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Lindsay Malcolm Leckie|nick=George L. M. Leckie|appt=10 July, 1894{{NLMar96|p. 267}}|end=26 May, 1897}}

Revision as of 18:21, 23 August 2019

H.M.S. Swallow (1885)
Builder: Sheerness Royal Dockyard[1]
Laid down: 1 Jan, 1885[2]
Launched: 27 Oct, 1885[3]
Commissioned: 7 Oct, 1886[4]
Sold: 1904[5]

H.M.S. Swallow was one of four Nymphe Class screw sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Re-commissioned at the Cape of Good Hope on 5 March, 1890.[6]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 58.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 58.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 58.
  4. The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 232.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 58.
  6. The Navy List. (March, 1892). p. 256.
  7. The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 232.
  8. The Navy List. (March, 1892). p. 256.
  9. The Navy List. (April, 1894). p. 258.
  10. The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 267.
  11. The Navy List. (October, 1898). p. 300.
  12. The Navy List. (February, 1900). p. 302.

Bibliography


Nymphe Class Screw Sloop
  Nymphe Buzzard Daphne Swallow