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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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}}
* {{CommRN}} [[Morshead Buchanan Baillie-Hamilton|Morshead B. Baillie-Hamilton]], April, 1917.{{SMNLFeb19|p. 908}}
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==See Also==
==See Also==

Revision as of 20:39, 28 April 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  
<– Gem Class Minor Cruisers (UK) Boadicea Class –>