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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={{CommRN}}|name=Frank Finnis|nick=Frank Finnnis|appt=30 November, 1889{{NLJul90|p. 251}}|end=}}
{{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=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield|nick=Edward F. Inglefield|appt=26 August, 1899{{NLFeb00|p. 302}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Edye Kington Boddam-Whetham|nick=Edye K. Boddam-Whetham|appt=1 September, 1918{{NLDec18|p. 912}}|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  
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