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'''H.M.S. ''Brilliant''''' was one of 21 [[Apollo Class Cruiser (1890)|''Apollo'' class]] second-class cruisers completed in the early to mid 1890s.


==Service==
==Service==
She was one of three cruisers, by early 1894, whose old pattern 6-in guns had been replaced by new quick-firing models.  This work would be extended, in stages, to other contemprary cruisers.{{NMI|Monday, January 15, 1894, Issue 34161, p.10}}
She re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 3 April, 1906.  In early 1908, she was attached to the {{UK-CS|4}}.{{NLJan08|p. 286}}
In 1910, despite her advanced age, ''Brilliant'' was the best gunnery ship of the three tested in the {{UK-CS|4}}, scoring 52.52, compared to the average 41.888.<ref>{{TNA|ADM 1/8328}}, p. 4.</ref>
In 1910, despite her advanced age, ''Brilliant'' was the best gunnery ship of the three tested in the {{UK-CS|4}}, scoring 52.52, compared to the average 41.888.<ref>{{TNA|ADM 1/8328}}, p. 4.</ref>


==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment given:
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
*Captain [[George John Scott Warrender, Seventh Baronet|Sir George J. S. Warrender, Bart.]], 11 July 1899.<ref>Warrender Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 1384.</ref>
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*Captain [[Evelyn Robert Le Marchant|Evelyn R. Le Marchant]], 8 March, 1904.<ref>Le Marchant Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 790.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edmund Samuel Poë|nick=Edmund S. Poë|appt=11 July, 1893{{NMI|Monday, Jul 10, 1893; pg. 10; Issue 33999}}|end=c. 20 August, 1893{{INF}}|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1893]]}}
*Captain [[Robert Hamilton Anstruther|Robert H. Anstruther]], 6 April, 1906.<ref>Anstruther Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 96.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Charles Burgoyne Bromley|nick=Arthur C. B. Bromley|appt=18 July, 1894{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|July 12, 1894, Issue 34314, p.10}}|end=|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1894]]}}
*Captain [[Francis Fitzgerald Haworth-Booth|Francis F. Haworth-Booth]], 20 March, 1908.<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 287.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis George Kirby|nick=Francis G. Kirby|appt=8 July, 1896{{NMI|Thursday, Jul 09, 1896; pg. 11; Issue 34938}}|end=|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1896]]}}
*Captain [[Maurice Woollcombe]], 1 April, 1910.<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 504.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis John Foley|nick=Francis J. Foley|appt=15 June, 1897<ref>Foley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.|}}  f. 463.</ref>|end=31 July, 1897<ref>Foley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.|}}  f. 463.</ref>|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1897]]}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George John Scott Warrender, Seventh Baronet|nick=Sir George J. S. Warrender, Bart.|appt=11 July, 1899<ref>Warrender Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 1384.</ref>|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1899]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Hope Robertson|nick=Charles H. Robertson|appt=10 July, 1900<ref>Robertson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 447.</ref>|end=21 August, 1900<ref>Robertson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 447.</ref>|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1900]]}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Coare Kingsford|nick=Henry C. Kingsford|appt=16 July, 1901<ref>Kingsford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 749.</ref>|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1901]]}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Hugh Pigot Williams|nick=Hugh P. Williams|appt=1 October, 1901<ref>Williams Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39}}.  f. 1409.</ref>|end=18 July, 1903<ref>Williams Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39}}.  f. 1409.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Evelyn Robert Le Marchant|nick=Evelyn R. Le Marchant|appt=8 March, 1904<ref>Le Marchant Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}}  f. 287/578.</ref>|end=12 December, 1904<ref>Le Marchant Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}}  f. 287/578.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Philip Walter|nick=Philip Walter|appt=13 December, 1904{{NLNov05|p. 287}}<ref>Walter Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/264.|D7602199}} f. 310.</ref>|end=6 April, 1906<ref>Walter Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42/264.|D7602199}} f. 310.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Robert Hamilton Anstruther|nick=Robert H. Anstruther|appt=6 April, 1906{{NLJan08|p. 286}}<ref>Anstruther Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 96.</ref>|end=29 February, 1908<ref>Anstruther Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 96.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Francis Fitzgerald Haworth-Booth|nick=Francis F. Haworth-Booth|appt=20 March, 1908{{NLOct08|p. 287}}|ass=29 April, 1908<ref>Haworth-Booth Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/241.|}} f. 252.</ref>|end=1 April, 1910<ref>Haworth-Booth Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/241.|}} f. 252.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Maurice Woollcombe|nick=Maurice Woollcombe|appt=1 April, 1910<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 504.</ref>|end=15 December, 1911<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 504.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} (retired)|name=Robert Ernest Vaughan|nick=Robert E. Vaughan|appt=August, 1914{{NLSep14|p. 285}}|end=12 September, 1914|note=hospitalised}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}} (retired)|name=Harold Christian|nick=Harold Christian|appt=13 September, 1914<ref>Christian Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/403.|D7602328}} f. 482.</ref>{{NLApr15|p. 392''m''}}|end=1 October, 1915<ref>Christian Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/403.|D7602328}} f. 482.</ref>|note=invalided from 9 July to 5 September 1915}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Colin Kenneth MacLean|nick=Colin K. MacLean|appt=9 July, 1915<ref>MacLean Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D8112229}} f. 285.</ref>|end=5 September, 1915<ref>MacLean Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D8112229}} f. 285.</ref>|note=temporary}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} (retired)|name=William Armitage Cooke-Hurle|nick=William A. Cooke-Hurle|appt=5 September, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 392''m''}}|end=|note=temporary}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Hubert Edwin Gore-Langton|nick=Hubert E. Gore-Langton|appt=1 October, 1915<ref>Gore-Langton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/16.|D7603920}} f. 419?</ref>|end=19 January, 1917<ref>Gore-Langton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/16.|D7603920}} f. 419?</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Hamilton Heath Sinclair Thomson|nick=William H. H. S. Thomson|appt=19 January, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 391''w''}}|end=14 January, 1918}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Maurice Brett Leslie|nick=Maurice B. Leslie|appt=15 January, 1918|end=16 February, 1918|note=temporary}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alfred Edmund Godsal|nick=Alfred E. Godsal|appt=c. February, 1918|end=24 April, 1918{{HepperLosses|p. 129}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=vessel sunk as blockship under his command}}
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==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==
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==See Also==
==See Also==
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Latest revision as of 00:55, 16 June 2022

H.M.S. Brilliant (1891)
Pendant Number: N.16 (1914)
N.14 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Sheerness Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: 1890[3]
Launched: 24 Jun, 1891[4]
Commissioned: 1893[5]
Blockship: 23 Apr, 1918[6]

H.M.S. Brilliant was one of 21 Apollo class second-class cruisers completed in the early to mid 1890s.

Service

She was one of three cruisers, by early 1894, whose old pattern 6-in guns had been replaced by new quick-firing models. This work would be extended, in stages, to other contemprary cruisers.[7]

She re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 3 April, 1906. In early 1908, she was attached to the Fourth Cruiser Squadron.[8]

In 1910, despite her advanced age, Brilliant was the best gunnery ship of the three tested in the Fourth Cruiser Squadron, scoring 52.52, compared to the average 41.888.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 39.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  7. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Monday, January 15, 1894, Issue 34161, p.10.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1908). p. 286.
  9. ↑ The National Archives. ADM 1/8328, p. 4.
  10. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Monday, Jul 10, 1893; pg. 10; Issue 33999.
  11. ↑ "The Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), July 12, 1894, Issue 34314, p.10.
  12. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 09, 1896; pg. 11; Issue 34938.
  13. ↑ Foley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 463.
  14. ↑ Foley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 463.
  15. ↑ Warrender Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1384.
  16. ↑ Robertson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 447.
  17. ↑ Robertson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 447.
  18. ↑ Kingsford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 749.
  19. ↑ Williams Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1409.
  20. ↑ Williams Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1409.
  21. ↑ Le Marchant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 287/578.
  22. ↑ Le Marchant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 287/578.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1905). p. 287.
  24. ↑ Walter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/264. f. 310.
  25. ↑ Walter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/264. f. 310.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1908). p. 286.
  27. ↑ Anstruther Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 96.
  28. ↑ Anstruther Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 96.
  29. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 287.
  30. ↑ Haworth-Booth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/241. f. 252.
  31. ↑ Woollcombe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 504.
  32. ↑ Woollcombe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 504.
  33. ↑ The Navy List. (September, 1914). p. 285.
  34. ↑ Christian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/403. f. 482.
  35. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 392m.
  36. ↑ Christian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/403. f. 482.
  37. ↑ MacLean Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 285.
  38. ↑ MacLean Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 285.
  39. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 392m.
  40. ↑ Gore-Langton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/16. f. 419?
  41. ↑ Gore-Langton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/16. f. 419?
  42. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391w.
  43. ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 129.

See Also

Footnotes

Bibliography


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