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'''H.M.S. ''Ossory''''' was one of 103 destroyers of the [["M" Class Destroyer (1914)|"M" class]].
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'''H.M.S. ''Ossory''''' was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the [["M" Class Destroyer (1914)|"M" class]] built for the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[Great War]].
  
 
==Service==
 
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==Captains==
 
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Harold Victor Dundas|nick=Harold V. Dundas|appt=before 31 May, 1916{{UKJutlandOD|p. 44}}|note=in command at [[Battle of Jutland]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Ernest Walter Kirkby|nick=Ernest W. Kirkby|appt=November, 1915<ref>Kirkby Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/87.|D7604499}} f. 216.</ref>|end=c. late November 1915<ref>Kirkby Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/87.|D7604499}} f. 216.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} (I)|name=Cecil Rupert Hemans|nick=Cecil R. Hemans|appt=14 September, 1916{{NLFeb19|p. 857}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Harold Victor Dundas|nick=Harold V. Dundas|appt=November, 1915<ref>Dundas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/341.|D7603125}}  f. 384.</ref>|end=14 September, 1916<ref>Dundas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/341.|D7603125}} f. 384.</ref>|note=in command at [[Battle of Jutland]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} ('''I''', ''Gr.'')|name=Cecil Rupert Hemans|nick=Cecil R. Hemans|appt=14 September, 1916<ref>Hemans Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/47/151.|D7603858}} f. 356.</ref>{{NLFeb19|p. 857}}|end=23 March, 1919<ref>Hemans Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/47/151.|D7603858}} f. 356.</ref>|note=away sick, early December, 1917 to 20 February, 1918}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Frederick Ross Maxwell Johnson|nick=Frederick R. M. Johnson|appt=26 December, 1917<ref>Johnson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/282.|D7605354}} f. ?.</ref>|end=16 February, 1918<ref>Johnson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/282.|D7605354}} f. ?.</ref>|note=temporary, in place of Hemans}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Raymond George Francis Herault de Caen|nick=Raymond G. F. H. de Caen|appt=26 March, 1919|end=5 December, 1919}}
 
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Latest revision as of 13:25, 11 March 2020

H.M.S. Ossory (1915)
Pendant Number: G.23 (1914)
G.17 (Jan 1917)
H.A5 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown & Company[2]
Ordered: Nov 1914 (2nd Order)[3]
Launched: 9 Oct, 1915[4]
Completed: Nov, 1915[5]
Sold:

H.M.S. Ossory was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the "M" class built for the Royal Navy during the Great War.

Service

Ossory fought at the Battle of Jutland, screening the Battle Fleet as one of the 14 "M" class destroyers of the Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla.[6]

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport on 4 December, 1919.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 66.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 79.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 66.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 79.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 309.
  6. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 34.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 819-20.
  8. Kirkby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/87. f. 216.
  9. Kirkby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/87. f. 216.
  10. Dundas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/341. f. 384.
  11. Dundas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/341. f. 384.
  12. Hemans Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/47/151. f. 356.
  13. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 857.
  14. Hemans Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/47/151. f. 356.
  15. Johnson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/282. f. ?.
  16. Johnson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/282. f. ?.

Bibliography


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Martial Mary Rose Menace Mameluke Marvel
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Orcadia Oriana Oriole Osiris Paladin
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Pheasant Phoebe Pigeon Plover Penn
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Mastiff Meteor Michael Milbrook Minion
Munster Nepean Nereus Patrician Patriot
  Rapid Ready  
Yarrow Specials (Two Funnels)
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