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Revision as of 12:45, 5 May 2014

H.M.S. Lawford (1913)
Pendant Number: H.06 (1914)
H.53 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Fairfield[2]
Launched: 30 Oct, 1913[3]
Sold: Aug, 1922[4]

H.M.S. Lawford was one of twenty-two destroyers of the Laforey class.

Habitability

In July 1914, it was decided not to supply portable fans to ventilate the Stokers' Mess Deck and the Chief and Petty Officers' Mess Deck.[5]

Service

At the Battle of Dover Strait, she was under the command of Arthur A. Scott.[6]

In 1917, she and sisters Legion and Loyal were converted to minelayers and operated along with the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla.

Reduced to C. & M. Party at the Nore on 26 December, 1919.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  5. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 79 of 3 July 1914.
  6. ↑ Naval Operations. Vol. IV. p. 60.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 801.
  8. ↑ The Navy List (January, 1915). p. 346.

Bibliography


Laforey Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Llewellyn Lennox Loyal Legion Laforey
Lawford Louis Lydiard Laertes Lysander
  Lance Lookout  
White 2-Funnelled Type
  Laurel Liberty  
Yarrow 2-Funnelled Type
  Lark Landrail Laverock Linnet  
War Emergency Repeat "L" Class
  Lochinvar Lassoo Leonidas Lucifer  
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