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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Skirmisher''''' was one of eight [[Sentinel Class Cruiser (1904)|''Sentinel'' class]] [[Scout Cruiser]]s completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1905.


==Service==
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==Captains==
==Captains==
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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*{{CommRN}} [[Edward Reeves]], 2 January, 1908.<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 376.</ref>
*{{CommRN}} [[Edward Reeves]], 2 January, 1908.<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 376.</ref>
* Captain [[Francis Clifton Brown]], 21 March, 1914<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 374.</ref> and as Captain (D) {{UK-DF|7}}.
* Captain [[Francis Clifton Brown]], 21 March, 1914<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 374.</ref> and as Captain (D) {{UK-DF|7}}.
* {{CommRN}} [[Morshead Buchanan Baillie-Hamilton|Morshead B. Baillie-Hamilton]], April, 1917.{{SMNLFeb19|p. 908}}
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==See Also==
==See Also==
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==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 21:46, 8 January 2014

H.M.S. Skirmisher (1905)
Pendant Number: D.55 (1914)
P.55 (Sep 1915)
N.95 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Vickers, Barrow[2]
Laid down: 29 Jul, 1903[3]
Launched: 7 Feb, 1905[4]
Commissioned: Jul, 1905[5]
Sold: 3 Mar, 1920[6]
Fate: to Ward, Preston[7]

H.M.S. Skirmisher was one of eight Sentinel class Scout Cruisers completed for the Royal Navy in 1905.

Service

As part of the Channel Fleet, Skirmisher started a refit in Devonport in August 1908, after Battle Practice.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  8. ↑ Report from Charles Beresford dated 10 April 1908 in Naval Policy - Strategy - Tactics: Miscellaneous papers from Private Office received by record office at The National Archives. ADM 116/942, unnumbered folio halfway within series.
  9. ↑ The Navy List (October, 1908). p. 376.
  10. ↑ The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 374.
  11. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 908.

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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