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Revision as of 19:18, 6 May 2014
| H.M.S. Cheerful (1897) | |
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| Pendant Number: | P.13 (1914) D.49 (Sep 1915)[1] |
| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie[2] |
| Ordered: | 1896-97 Programme[3] |
| Laid down: | 7 Sep, 1896[4] |
| Launched: | 14 Jul, 1897[5] |
| Commissioned: | Feb, 1900[6] |
| Mined: | 30 Jun, 1917[7] |
| Fate: | off the Shetlands[8] |
H.M.S. Cheerful was one of forty destroyers of the "C" class — a "30 knotter".
Service
In mid-1913, she was home ported in Portland and serving in the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla.[9]
She was lost off the Shetlands[10] while serving with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla, a patrol flotilla.
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Lieutenant-Commander Robert Makin, 28 January, 1913[11]
- Commander Theodore E. J. Bigg, 27 January, 1914[12]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
- ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913). p. 292.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 292.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 291.
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