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'''H.M.S. ''Pathfinder''''' was one of eight [[Sentinel Class Cruiser (1904)|''Sentinel'' class]] scout cruisers which entered [[Royal Navy]] service in 1905. | '''H.M.S. ''Pathfinder''''' was one of eight [[Sentinel Class Cruiser (1904)|''Sentinel'' class]] scout cruisers which entered [[Royal Navy]] service in 1905. | ||
She was the first Royal Navy loss to submarine attack when sunk on 5 September, 1914.{{UKNavalOpsI|p. 163}} | She was the first Royal Navy loss to submarine attack when sunk on 5 September, 1914.{{UKNavalOpsI|p. 163}} | ||
==Honours== | ==Honours== | ||
Revision as of 18:38, 26 November 2013
| H.M.S. Pathfinder (1904) | |
|---|---|
| Pendant Number: | N/A[1] |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead[2] |
| Laid down: | 15 Aug, 1903[3] |
| Launched: | 16 Jul, 1904[4] |
| Commissioned: | 18 Jul, 1905[5] |
| Torpedoed: | 5 Sep, 1914[6] |
| Fate: | by U 21 in North Sea[7] |
H.M.S. Pathfinder was one of eight Sentinel class scout cruisers which entered Royal Navy service in 1905.
She was the first Royal Navy loss to submarine attack when sunk on 5 September, 1914.[8]
Honours
On 2 October 1914, the Admiralty inserted into its Weekly Orders a note of "Appreciation of Conduct of Officers and Crews of Ships recently destroyed", mentioning this ship as one of six whose men displayed "exemplary steadiness and coolness... in face of imminent death".[9]
Captains
Dates of appointment given:
- Commander Francis G. St. John, 20 January, 1908.[10]
- Commander John B. Sparks, 17 January, 1911.[11]
- Captain Francis Martin Leake, 1 October, 1913,[12] in command when she was lost on 5 September, 1914.
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
- ↑ Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 163.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 426 of 2 Oct, 1914.
- ↑ The Navy List (October, 1908). p. 352.
- ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 352.
- ↑ The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 353.
Bibliography
| Sentinel Class Scout Cruiser | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vickers/Sentinel Group | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sentinel | Skirmisher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cammell Laird/Pathfinder Group | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pathfinder | Patrol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fairfield/Forward Group | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foresight | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Armstrong/Adventure Group | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adventure | Attentive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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