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==Service==
==Service==
The ship paid off at the Cape of Good Hope on 4 March, 1890 and was re-commissioned the following day.<ref>Fortescue Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38/458.|}} f. 470.</ref>{{NLMar92|p. 256}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Edye Kington Boddam-Whetham|nick=Edye K. Boddam-Whetham|appt=1 September, 1918{{NLDec18|p. 912}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Reynell John Fortescue|nick=Reynell J. Fortescue|appt=7 October, 1886<ref>Fortescue Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38/458.|}} f. 470.</ref>{{NLFeb88|p. 232}}|end=4 March, 1890<ref>Fortescue Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38/458.|}} f. 470.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
{{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=George Lindsay Malcolm Leckie|nick=George L. M. Leckie|appt=10 July, 1894{{NLMar96|p. 267}}|end=26 May, 1897}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis William Keary|nick=Francis W. Keary|appt=20 May, 1897{{NLOct98|p. 300}}|end=29 August, 1899}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield|nick=Edward F. Inglefield|appt=26 August, 1899{{NLFeb00|p. 302}}|end=}}
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Latest revision as of 13:58, 3 November 2021

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

The ship paid off at the Cape of Good Hope on 4 March, 1890 and was re-commissioned the following day.[6][7]

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. Fortescue Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/458. f. 470.
  7. The Navy List. (March, 1892). p. 256.
  8. Fortescue Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/458. f. 470.
  9. The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 232.
  10. Fortescue Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/458. f. 470.
  11. The Navy List. (March, 1892). p. 256.
  12. The Navy List. (April, 1894). p. 258.
  13. The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 267.
  14. The Navy List. (October, 1898). p. 300.
  15. The Navy List. (February, 1900). p. 302.

Bibliography


Nymphe Class Screw Sloop
  Nymphe Buzzard Daphne Swallow