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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Gannet''''' was one of nine [[Doterel Class Sloop (1878)|''Doterel'' Class composite screw sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Gannet''''' was one of nine [[Doterel Class Sloop (1878)|''Doterel'' Class composite screw sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].  She was renamed '''H.M.S. ''President''''' in the early 1900s.  A [[H.M.S. Gannet (1927)|river gunboat by the same name]] was launched in 1927.


==Service==
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Re-commissioned at Malta on 10 November, 1888.{{NLMar91|p. 222}}
Re-commissioned at Malta on 10 November, 1888.{{NLMar91|p. 222}}
In early 1895, {{UK-Dryad}} relieved ''Gannet'' in the Mediterranean, which returned to Englad to be taken out of service.{{NMI|Saturday, January 5, 1895, Issue 34466, p.10}}
The vessel was restored in 1987 to her 1888 appearance.  She resides at Chatham Historic Dockyard.


==Captains==
==Captains==
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Gannet''" nat="UK">
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Gannet''" nat="UK">
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edmund George Bourke|nick=Edmund G. Bourke|appt=17 April, 1879{{NLDec81|p. 213}}|end=20 July, 1883}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Barton Rose Bradford|nick=Barton R. Bradford|appt=3 September, 1885{{NLFeb88|p. 209}}|end=9 November, 1888}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Barton Rose Bradford|nick=Barton R. Bradford|appt=3 September, 1885{{NLFeb88|p. 209}}|end=9 November, 1888}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Henry Corfe|nick=James H. Corfe|appt=10 October, 1888{{NLMar91|p. 222}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Henry Corfe|nick=James H. Corfe|appt=10 October, 1888{{NLMar91|p. 222}}|end=25 January, 1892}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederick Fogarty Fegen|nick=Frederick F. Fegen|appt=18 December, 1891<ref>Fegen Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 445.</ref>|end=16 March, 1895}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederick Fogarty Fegen|nick=Frederick F. Fegen|appt=18 December, 1891<ref>Fegen Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 445.</ref>|end=16 March, 1895|note=vessel taken out of service afterward}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} in Command|name=Andrew Yule Catto|nick=Andrew Y. Catto|appt=25 July, 1917|end=9 May, 1919|note=and for Fleet diving duties}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>


Latest revision as of 14:25, 25 August 2019

H.M.S. Gannet (1878)
Builder: Sheerness Royal Dockyard[1]
Launched: 31 Aug, 1878[2]
Preserved:

H.M.S. Gannet was one of nine Doterel Class composite screw sloops completed for the Royal Navy. She was renamed H.M.S. President in the early 1900s. A river gunboat by the same name was launched in 1927.

Service

Commissioned at Sheerness on 3 September, 1885.[3]

Re-commissioned at Malta on 10 November, 1888.[4]

In early 1895, Dryad relieved Gannet in the Mediterranean, which returned to Englad to be taken out of service.[5]

The vessel was restored in 1987 to her 1888 appearance. She resides at Chatham Historic Dockyard.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 57.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 57.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (September, 1885). p. 212.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1891). p. 222.
  5. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Saturday, January 5, 1895, Issue 34466, p.10.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1881). p. 213.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 209.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1891). p. 222.
  9. ↑ Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 445.

Bibliography


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