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|builder=[[Earle's Shipbuilding]], Hull{{Conways1860|p. 66}}
 
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==Service==
 
==Service==
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''St. George'' completed conversion to depot ship in March, 1910,{{DittColl|p. 293}} commissioning at Chatham on the 15th.{{NLJul13|p. 370}}   She would serve the {{UK-DF|9}} in the Forth from mid-1913 if not earlier,{{NLJul13|p. 370}} the {{UK-DF|7}} in the Humber in 1914-15, and finally to the Mediterranean.{{DittColl|p. 293}}
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''St. George'' completed conversion to depot ship in March, 1910,{{DittColl|p. 293}} commissioning at Chatham on the 15th{{NLJul13|p. 370}} and joining the {{UK-DF|3}}, supporting the Third Division of the Home Fleet. 
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After escorting ''Victoria and Albert'', ''St. George'' returned to Portsmouth on 26 September 1901 after seven months at sea.  Even with a foul bottom, she had maintained 18.5 knots.{{NMI|27 Sept. 1901, p. 4}}
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She would serve the {{UK-DF|9}} in the Forth from mid-1913 if not earlier,{{NLJul13|p. 370}} until August 1915 and also the {{UK-DF|7}} in the Humber in 1914 through October 1915, and finally to the Mediterranean.{{DittColl|p. 293}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''St. George''">{{TenureListBegin|Captain of {{UK-StGeorge|f=p}}}}
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<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''St. George''">
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edmund Samuel Poë|nick=Edmund S. Poë|appt=18 July, 1894{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|July 12, 1894, Issue 34314, p.10}}|end=|note=lent for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1894]]}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Harpur Gamble|nick=Edward H. Gamble|appt=10 December, 1894<ref>Gamble Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.}} f. 16.</ref>|end=28 June, 1895<ref>Gamble Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.}} f. 16.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Harpur Gamble|nick=Edward H. Gamble|appt=10 December, 1894<ref>Gamble Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.}} f. 16.</ref>|end=28 June, 1895<ref>Gamble Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.}} f. 16.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Le Clerc Egerton|nick=George Le C. Egerton|appt=11 May, 1895<ref>Egerton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}}  f. 396.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Le Clerc Egerton|nick=George Le C. Egerton|appt=11 May, 1895<ref>Egerton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}}  f. 396.</ref>|end=28 December, 1897<ref>Egerton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}}  f. 16.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Harry Lucius Fanshawe Royle|nick=Henry L. F. Royle|appt=c. 28 December, 1897|end=1 April, 1898}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Philip Francis Tillard|nick=Philip F. Tillard|appt=11 July, 1899<ref>Tillard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.}} f. 375.</ref>|end=26 August, 1899<ref>Tillard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.}} f. 375.</ref>|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1899]]}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Edmund Samuel Poë|nick=Edmund S. Poë|appt=31 October, 1899<ref>Poë Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 1051.</ref>|end=5 October, 1900<ref>Poë Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/17.}}  f. 405.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Edmund Samuel Poë|nick=Edmund S. Poë|appt=31 October, 1899<ref>Poë Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 1051.</ref>|end=5 October, 1900<ref>Poë Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/17.}}  f. 405.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Paul Warner Bush|nick=Paul W. Bush|appt=26 February, 1901<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Thursday, 21 February, 1901.  Issue '''36384''', col D, p. 10.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Alfred Leigh Winsloe|nick=Alfred L. Winsloe|appt=5 October, 1900<ref>Winsloe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.}} f. 541.</ref>{{NLMay02|p. 301}}|end=25 February, 1901<ref>Winsloe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.}} f. 541.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Paul Warner Bush|nick=Paul W. Bush|appt=26 February, 1901{{NMI|Thursday, 21 February, 1901.  Issue '''36384''', col D, p. 10}}|end=after September, 1901|note=apparently, temporary}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Alfred Leigh Winsloe|nick=Alfred L. Winsloe|appt=7 November, 1901<ref>Winsloe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.}} f. 541.</ref>|end=15 November, 1902<ref>Winsloe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/18.}} f. 541.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edward George Shortland|nick=Edward G. Shortland|appt=15 March, 1904<ref>Shortland Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 362.</ref>|end=25 May, 1904<ref>Shortland Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 362.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frank Finnis|nick=Frank Finnis|appt=26 May, 1904<ref>Finnis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 457.</ref>|end=7 December, 1904<ref>Finnis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 457.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frank Finnis|nick=Frank Finnis|appt=26 May, 1904<ref>Finnis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 457.</ref>|end=7 December, 1904<ref>Finnis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 457.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Yerbury Moggridge|nick=Arthur Y. Moggridge|appt=8 December, 1904<ref>Moggridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 497.</ref>|end=14 May, 1906<ref>Moggridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 497.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Yerbury Moggridge|nick=Arthur Y. Moggridge|appt=8 December, 1904<ref>Moggridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 497.</ref>|end=14 May, 1906<ref>Moggridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 497.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Henry Hodgson Moore|nick=Charles H. H. Moore|appt=15 May, 1906<ref>Moore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 689.</ref>|end=8 August, 1906<ref>Moore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 689.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Henry Hodgson Moore|nick=Charles H. H. Moore|appt=15 May, 1906<ref>Moore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 689.</ref>|end=8 August, 1906<ref>Moore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 689.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler|nick=Herbert A. S. Fyler|appt=8 August, 1906<ref>Fyler Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/88.}}  f. 69.</ref><ref>Day of month inferred from predecessor.  Moore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 689.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler|nick=Herbert A. S. Fyler|appt=9 August, 1906<ref>Fyler Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/155.|D7602098}}  f. 182.</ref>{{NLMar07|p. 371}}|end=14 November, 1907<ref>Fyler Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/155.|D7602098}} f. 182.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edward Francis Bruen|nick=Edward F. Bruen|appt=25 June, 1908<ref>Bruen Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 210/418.</ref>|end=19 September, 1908<ref>Bruen Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 210/418.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Herbert Morgan|nick=Charles H. Morgan|appt=14 November, 1907<ref>Morgan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 323.</ref>|end=4 February, 1908<ref>Morgan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 323.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Guy Lutley Sclater|nick=Guy L. Sclater|appt=March, 1910{{MackieRNW}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Tuthill Borrett|nick=Charles T. Borrett|appt=4 February, 1908|end=23 July, 1908}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edward George Lowther-Crofton|nick=Edward G. Lowther-Crofton|appt=May, 1911{{MackieRNW}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edward Francis Bruen|nick=Edward F. Bruen|appt=25 June, 1908<ref>Bruen Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 210/418.</ref>|end=19 September, 1908<ref>Bruen Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 210/418.</ref>|ass=23 July, 1908}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Guy Lutley Sclater|nick=Guy L. Sclater|appt=15 March, 1910<ref>Sclater Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/20.}} f. 21.</ref>{{NLApr11|p. 370}}|end=30 May, 1911<ref>Sclater Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/20.}} f. 21.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edward George Lowther-Crofton|nick=Edward G. Lowther-Crofton|appt=29 May, 1911<ref>Lowther-Crofton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/316.|D7602644}} f.347.</ref>|end=1 May, 1912<ref>Lowther-Crofton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/316.|D7602644}} f.347.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Vincent Barkly Molteno|nick=Vincent B. Molteno|appt=1 May, 1912{{NLMar13|p. 370}}<ref>Molteno Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 260.</ref>|end=19 December, 1913<ref>Molteno Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 260.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Vincent Barkly Molteno|nick=Vincent B. Molteno|appt=1 May, 1912{{NLMar13|p. 370}}<ref>Molteno Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 260.</ref>|end=19 December, 1913<ref>Molteno Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 260.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alan Cameron Bruce|nick=Alan C. Bruce|appt=10 December, 1913<ref>Bruce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/319.}}  f. 351.</ref>|end=27 January, 1914<ref>Bruce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/319.}}  f. 351.</ref>|ass=19 December, 1913<ref>Inferred from date predecessor quit.  Molteno Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 260.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alan Cameron Bruce|nick=Alan C. Bruce|appt=10 December, 1913<ref>Bruce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/319.}}  f. 351.</ref>|end=27 January, 1914<ref>Bruce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/319.}}  f. 351.</ref>|ass=19 December, 1913<ref>Inferred from date predecessor quit.  Molteno Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 260.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cecil Dacre Staveley Raikes|nick=Cecil D. S. Raikes|appt=27 January, 1914{{NLJan15|p. 378''a''}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cecil Dacre Staveley Raikes|nick=Cecil D. S. Raikes|appt=27 January, 1914{{NLJan15|p. 378''a''}}<ref>Raikes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602757}} f. 490.</ref>|end=5 March, 1915<ref>Raikes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602757}} f. 490.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Reginald Louis Crichton|nick=Reginald L. Crichton|appt=21 March, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 397''t''}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting Captain|name=Reginald Louis Crichton|nick=Reginald L. Crichton|appt=14 March, 1915<ref>Crichton Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/44/46.|D7602834}} f. 54.</ref>|ass=21 March, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 397''t''}}|end=2 November, 1915<ref>Crichton Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/44/46.|D7602834}} f. 54.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting Captain|name=Sidney Richard Olivier|nick=Sidney R. Olivier|appt=2 November, 1915{{NLJan19|p. 900}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting Captain|name=Sidney Richard Olivier|nick=Sidney R. Olivier|appt=2 November, 1915{{NLJan19|p. 900}}|end=17 April, 1919}}
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{{TenureListEnd}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles de Burgh|nick=Charles de Burgh|appt=10 August, 1919<ref>de Burgh Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/314.|D7604726}} f. ?.</ref>|end=25 September, 1919<ref>de Burgh Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/314.|D7604726}} f. ?.</ref>|note=temporary, and for duty with submarines}}
 
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
 
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
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{{WP|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_St_George_(1892)}}
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* [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-05-HMS_St_George.htm Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net]
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_St_George_(1892)}}
 
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Latest revision as of 13:55, 6 April 2020

H.M.S. St. George (1892)
Pendant Number: N.31 (1914)
N.88 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull[2]
Laid down: 23 Apr, 1890[3]
Launched: 23 Jun, 1892[4]
Commissioned: 25 Oct, 1894[5]
Sold: 1 Jul, 1920[6]

H.M.S. St. George was completed in 1894 as one of nine Edgar class cruisers, but was converted to a depot ship before the Great War.

Service

St. George completed conversion to depot ship in March, 1910,[7] commissioning at Chatham on the 15th[8] and joining the Third Destroyer Flotilla, supporting the Third Division of the Home Fleet.

After escorting Victoria and Albert, St. George returned to Portsmouth on 26 September 1901 after seven months at sea. Even with a foul bottom, she had maintained 18.5 knots.[9]

She would serve the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla in the Forth from mid-1913 if not earlier,[10] until August 1915 and also the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla in the Humber in 1914 through October 1915, and finally to the Mediterranean.[11]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 370.
  9. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 27 Sept. 1901, p. 4.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 370.
  11. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
  12. ↑ "The Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), July 12, 1894, Issue 34314, p.10.
  13. ↑ Gamble Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 16.
  14. ↑ Gamble Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 16.
  15. ↑ Egerton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 396.
  16. ↑ Egerton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 16.
  17. ↑ Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 375.
  18. ↑ Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 375.
  19. ↑ Poë Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1051.
  20. ↑ Poë Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/17. f. 405.
  21. ↑ Winsloe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 541.
  22. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1902). p. 301.
  23. ↑ Winsloe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 541.
  24. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, 21 February, 1901. Issue 36384, col D, p. 10.
  25. ↑ Winsloe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 541.
  26. ↑ Winsloe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 541.
  27. ↑ Shortland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 362.
  28. ↑ Shortland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 362.
  29. ↑ Finnis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 457.
  30. ↑ Finnis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 457.
  31. ↑ Moggridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 497.
  32. ↑ Moggridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 497.
  33. ↑ Moore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 689.
  34. ↑ Moore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 689.
  35. ↑ Fyler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/155. f. 182.
  36. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 371.
  37. ↑ Fyler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/155. f. 182.
  38. ↑ Morgan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 323.
  39. ↑ Morgan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 323.
  40. ↑ Bruen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 210/418.
  41. ↑ Bruen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 210/418.
  42. ↑ Sclater Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/20. f. 21.
  43. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 370.
  44. ↑ Sclater Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/20. f. 21.
  45. ↑ Lowther-Crofton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/316. f.347.
  46. ↑ Lowther-Crofton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/316. f.347.
  47. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 370.
  48. ↑ Molteno Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 260.
  49. ↑ Molteno Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 260.
  50. ↑ Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.
  51. ↑ Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.
  52. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 378a.
  53. ↑ Raikes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 490.
  54. ↑ Raikes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 490.
  55. ↑ Crichton Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/46. f. 54.
  56. ↑ Crichton Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/46. f. 54.
  57. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 900.
  58. ↑ de Burgh Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/314. f. ?.
  59. ↑ de Burgh Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/314. f. ?.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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