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==Service==
==Service==
In mid-May 1878, it was proposed to refit ''Hecla'' at Portsmouth as an armed troopship carrying five 64-pdr 71 cwt guns and one 40-pdr B.L. gun.{{NMI|17 May 1878, p. 7}}
Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 26 May, 1882.{{NLSep85|p. 214}}
''Hecla'' soon proved herself "a very wet ship."  During one trial cruise in Bantry Bay in late 1883 the sea "made clean sweeps over her aft, and flooder her beyond the waist, besides breaking the skylights of the deck cabins."<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence".  ''The Times''.  Wednesday, 1 January, 1879.  Issue '''29453''', col B, p. 10.</ref>
''Hecla'' soon proved herself "a very wet ship."  During one trial cruise in Bantry Bay in late 1883 the sea "made clean sweeps over her aft, and flooder her beyond the waist, besides breaking the skylights of the deck cabins."<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence".  ''The Times''.  Wednesday, 1 January, 1879.  Issue '''29453''', col B, p. 10.</ref>


In September 1883, ''Hecla'' was unable to cruise with the rest of the [[Channel Squadron (Royal Navy)|Channel Squadron]] owing to "a long list of defects" reported to [[Portsmouth Dockyard]].  She required repairs to the pistons of her main engines and her complement of second-class torpedo boats.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence".  ''The Times''.  Monday, 10 September, 1883.  Issue '''30921''', col A, p. 5.</ref>
In September 1883, ''Hecla'' was unable to cruise with the rest of the [[Channel Squadron (Royal Navy)|Channel Squadron]] owing to "a long list of defects" reported to [[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]].  She required repairs to the pistons of her main engines and her complement of second-class torpedo boats.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence".  ''The Times''.  Monday, 10 September, 1883.  Issue '''30921''', col A, p. 5.</ref>
 
''Hecla'' participated in the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1890]] under the command of Captain [[Edwin John Payne Gallwey|Edwin J. P. Gallwey]] as part of a Reserve Fleet of the force representing the Royal Navy, headquartered in the Downs.{{ToL|Naval Intelligence|Saturday, Jul 19, 1890; pg. 12; Issue 33068}}
 
She, {{UK-Flirt}} and {{UK-Star}} of the {{UK-DF|4}} were paid off on 30 April 1912 and re-commissioned the following day.{{NMI|29 Apr. 1912, p. 14}}


''Hecla'' served with the {{UK-DF|4}} at Scapa Flow from 1914-16 then supported the {{UK-DF|2}} from Belfast in 1917 and 1918.{{DittColl|p. 292}}
''Hecla'' served with the {{UK-DF|4}} at Scapa Flow from 1914-16 then supported the {{UK-DF|2}} from Belfast in 1917 and 1918.{{DittColl|p. 292}}


She recommissioned at Chatham on 22 October, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 785}}
She recommissioned at Chatham on 22 October, 1919.{{NLApr25|p. 245}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Morgan Singer Sr.|nick=Morgan Singer|appt=3 September, 1878{{NLAug80|p. 215}}|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Morgan Singer Sr.|nick=Morgan Singer|appt=3 September, 1878{{NLAug80|p. 215}}|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|nick=Arthur K. Wilson|appt=5 March, 1881{{NLSep81|p. 215}}<ref>Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/14.}}  f. 942.</ref>|end=30 July, 1884<ref>Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/14.}}  f. 942.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|nick=Arthur K. Wilson|appt=5 March, 1881{{NLSep81|p. 215}}<ref>Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/14.}}  f. 942.</ref>|end=30 July, 1884<ref>Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/14.}}  f. 942.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Hector Brabazon Stewart|nick=Hector B. Stewart|appt=7 June, 1884{{NLOct84|p. 215}}|ass=30 July, 1884<ref>Date taken from predecessor.  Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/14.}}  f. 942.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Hector Brabazon Stewart|nick=Hector B. Stewart|appt=7 June, 1884{{NLOct84|p. 215}}<ref>Stewart Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1101.|}}  f. 1234.</ref>|ass=30 July, 1884<ref>Date taken from predecessor.  Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/14.}}  f. 942.</ref>|end=23 April, 1885<ref>Stewart Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37/1101.|}}  f. 1234.</ref>|note=suffering depression at end}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edmund Frederick Jeffreys|nick=Edmund F. Jeffreys|appt=17 July, 1885{{NLJul86|p. 214}}<ref>Jeffreys Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/16.}}  f. 518.</ref>|end=7 February, 1888<ref>Jeffreys Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/16.}}  f. 518.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edmund Frederick Jeffreys|nick=Edmund F. Jeffreys|appt=17 July, 1885{{NLJul86|p. 214}}<ref>Jeffreys Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/16.}}  f. 518.</ref>|end=7 February, 1888<ref>Jeffreys Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/16.}}  f. 518.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edmund Frederick Jeffreys|nick=Edmund F. Jeffreys|appt=6 November, 1888<ref>Jeffreys Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/16.}}  f. 518.</ref>|end=21 February, 1889<ref>Jeffreys Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/16.}}  f. 518.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edmund Frederick Jeffreys|nick=Edmund F. Jeffreys|appt=6 November, 1888<ref>Jeffreys Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/16.}}  f. 518.</ref>|end=21 February, 1889<ref>Jeffreys Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/16.}}  f. 518.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edwin John Payne Gallwey|nick=Edwin J. P. Gallwey|appt=21 January, 1889<ref>Gallwey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38/422}}</ref>|ass=21 February, 1889<ref>Predecessor served through that date.  Jeffreys Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/16.}}  f. 518.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edwin John Payne Gallwey|nick=Edwin J. P. Gallwey|appt=21 January, 1889<ref>Gallwey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38/422}}</ref>|ass=21 February, 1889<ref>Predecessor served through that date.  Jeffreys Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/16.}}  f. 518.</ref>|end=31 October, 1890}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Frederick Livington Campbell|nick=Frederick L. Campbell|appt=1 November, 1890<ref>Campbell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38/221.|D7578797}} ff. 195, 199.</ref>|end=c. mid November, 1890<ref>Campbell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38/221.|D7578797}} ff. 195, 199.</ref>|note=temporary, on passage to Malta}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Durnford|nick=John Durnford|appt=17 November, 1890{{NLMar92|p. 224}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Durnford|nick=John Durnford|appt=17 November, 1890{{NLMar92|p. 224}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} ('''N''')|name=Richard Harriman Wellings|nick=Richard H. Wellings|appt=5 September, 1895{{NLMar96|p. 229}}|end=|note=and for duty with Ships of the Fleet Reserve}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} ('''N''')|name=Richard Harriman Wellings|nick=Richard H. Wellings|appt=5 September, 1895{{NLMar96|p. 229}}|end=22 December, 1897|note=and for duty with Ships of the Fleet Reserve}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William Jabez Scullard|nick=William J. Scullard|appt=11 January, 1898{{NLFeb00|p. 257}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} ('''N''')|name=William Jabez Scullard|nick=William J. Scullard|appt=11 January, 1898{{NLFeb00|p. 257}}|end=28 June, 1900}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=James de Courcy Hamilton|nick=James de C. Hamilton|appt=10 July, 1900<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence".  ''The Times''.  Thursday, 5 July, 1900.  Issue '''36186''', col D, p. 10.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=James de Courcy Hamilton|nick=James de C. Hamilton|appt=10 July, 1900{{NMI|Thursday, 5 July, 1900.  Issue '''36186''', col D, p. 10}}|note=for the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1900]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Irvine Graham|nick=John I. Graham|appt=16 July, 1901<ref>"The Naval Manœuvres".  ''The Times''.  Thursday, 11 July, 1901.  Issue '''36504''', col C, p. 8.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Irvine Graham|nick=John I. Graham|appt=16 July, 1901{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|Thursday, July 11, 1901, Issue 36504, p.8}}|end=23 August, 1901|note=for the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1901]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Francis Benedict Charlton|nick=Edward F. B. Charlton|appt=21 February, 1905<ref>Charlton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 282.</ref>|end=9 July, 1906<ref>Charlton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 282.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Francis Benedict Charlton|nick=Edward F. B. Charlton|appt=21 February, 1905<ref>Charlton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 282.</ref>|end=9 July, 1906<ref>Charlton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 282.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Nicholas|nick=John Nicholas|appt=9 July, 1906<ref>Nicholas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 306.</ref>|end=6 August, 1908<ref>Nicholas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 306.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Nicholas|nick=John Nicholas|appt=9 July, 1906<ref>Nicholas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 306.</ref>|end=6 August, 1908<ref>Nicholas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 306.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, First Baronet|nick=Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt|appt=6 August, 1908<ref>Tyrwhitt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 125.</ref>|end=10 August, 1909<ref>Tyrwhitt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 125.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, First Baronet|nick=Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt|appt=6 August, 1908<ref>Tyrwhitt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 125.</ref>{{NLJul09|p. 325}}|end=10 August, 1909<ref>Tyrwhitt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 125.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis Martin Leake|nick=Francis M. Leake|appt=10 August, 1909<ref>Leake Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 69.</ref>|end=14 August, 1909<ref>Leake Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 69.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis Martin Leake|nick=Francis M. Leake|appt=10 August, 1909<ref>Leake Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 69.</ref>|end=14 August, 1909<ref>Leake Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 69.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Hugh Francis Wyldbore Wyldbore-Smith|nick=Hugh F. W. Wyldbore-Smith|appt=14 August, 1909{{NLJan10|p. 325}}|end=21 April, 1910}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Luce|nick=John Luce|appt=21 April, 1910<ref>Luce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 79.</ref>|end=19 October, 1910<ref>Luce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 79.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Luce|nick=John Luce|appt=21 April, 1910<ref>Luce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 79.</ref>|end=19 October, 1910<ref>Luce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 79.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Thomas Parry Bonham|nick=Thomas P. Bonham|appt=19 October, 1910<ref>Bonham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}</ref>|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Thomas Parry Bonham|nick=Thomas P. Bonham|appt=19 October, 1910<ref>Bonham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/293.}} f. 295.</ref>{{NLApr11|p. 324}}|end=17 May, 1911<ref>Bonham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/293.}} f. 295.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Gerald St. John|nick=Francis G. St. John|appt=17 May, 1911{{NLAug12|p. 323}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Gerald St. John|nick=Francis G. St. John|appt=17 May, 1911<ref>St. John Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/83.|D7602428}} f. 90.</ref>{{NLAug12|p. 323}}|end=18 December, 1912<ref>St. John Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/83.|D7602428}} f. 90.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Judge D'Arcy|nick=Judge D'Arcy|appt=18 December, 1912{{NLMar13|p. 323}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Judge D'Arcy|nick=Judge D'Arcy|appt=18 December, 1912<ref>D'Arcy Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/400.|D8112192}} ff. 478, 40.</ref>{{NLMar13|p. 323}}|end=10 August, 1913<ref>D'Arcy Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/400.|D8112192}} ff. 478, 40.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Ewen Cameron|nick=John E. Cameron|appt=20 August, 1913{{NLJan15|p. 328}}<ref>Cameron Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/409.|D7602727}} f. 453.</ref>|end=2 January, 1915<ref>Cameron Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/409.|D7602727}} f. 453.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Ewen Cameron|nick=John E. Cameron|appt=20 August, 1913{{NLJan15|p. 328}}<ref>Cameron Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/409.|D7602727}} f. 453.</ref>|end=2 January, 1915<ref>Cameron Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/409.|D7602727}} f. 453.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Wise Parker|nick=Henry W. Parker|appt=2 January, 1915{{NLApr15|p. 394''o''}}|end=September, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 394''n''}}{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Wise Parker|nick=Henry W. Parker|appt=2 January, 1915{{NLApr15|p. 394''o''}}|end=September, 1915{{FC}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Oliver Gladstone|nick=Edward O. Gladstone|appt=4 September, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 394''n''}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Sandford Grant Radcliffe Nevile|nick=Sandford G. R. Nevile|appt=24 August, 1915|end=4 September, 1915}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Edmund Wood|nick=Arthur E. Wood|appt=30 June, 1916{{NLDec16|p. 395''b''}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Oliver Gladstone|nick=Edward O. Gladstone|appt=4 September, 1915<ref>Gladstone Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/129.|D7602915}} f. 144.</ref>{{NLOct15|p. 394''n''}}|end=30 June, 1916<ref>Gladstone Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/129.|D7602915}} f. 144.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Edmund Wood|nick=Arthur E. Wood|appt=30 June, 1916|end=December, 1916}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Percy Withers|nick=Percy Withers|appt=December, 1916<ref>Withers Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D7602912}} f. 141.</ref>|end=7 January, 1917<ref>Withers Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D7602912}} f. 141.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D) of {{UK-DF|4}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Percy Withers|nick=Percy Withers|appt=December, 1916<ref>Withers Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D7602912}} f. 141.</ref>|end=7 January, 1917<ref>Withers Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D7602912}} f. 141.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D) of {{UK-DF|4}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Barnes Sparks|nick=John B. Sparks|appt=22 August, 1917{{NLFeb19|p. 810}}|note=and as Captain (D)|end=1 March, 1919<ref>Sparks Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 341.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Barnes Sparks|nick=John B. Sparks|appt=22 August, 1917{{NLFeb19|p. 810}}|note=and as Captain (D)|end=1 March, 1919<ref>Sparks Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 341.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Adrian Holt Smyth|nick=Adrian H. Smyth|appt=1 March, 1919|end=1 March, 1920}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Barnes Sparks|nick=John B. Sparks|appt=October, 1919<ref>Sparks Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 341.</ref>|end=30 October, 1919<ref>Sparks Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 341.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D), [[Nore Reserve Flotilla]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Barnes Sparks|nick=John B. Sparks|appt=October, 1919<ref>Sparks Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 341.</ref>|end=30 October, 1919<ref>Sparks Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 341.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D), [[Nore Reserve Flotilla]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Foster Grant-Dalton|nick=John F. Grant-Dalton|appt=30 October, 1919{{NLJan21|p. 785}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Foster Grant-Dalton|nick=John F. Grant-Dalton|appt=30 October, 1919<ref>Grant-Dalton Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/43/328.|D7602655}} f. 362.</ref>{{NLJan21|p. 785}}|end=1 February, 1921<ref>Grant-Dalton Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/43/328.|D7602655}} f. 362.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D), Nore Reserve}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Leonard Laurence Peel Willan|nick=Leonard L. P. Willan|appt=1 November, 1922{{NLJul24|p. 245}}|end=|note=and as Captain (D)}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Oliver Gladstone|nick=Edward O. Gladstone|appt=1 February, 1921<ref>Gladstone Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/129.|D7602915}} f. 144.</ref>|end=1 November, 1922<ref>Gladstone Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/129.|D7602915}} f. 144.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D), Nore Reserve}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Barry Stewart Bingham|nick=The Hon. Edward B. S. Bingham|appt=29 December, 1924<ref>Bingham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/117.|D7603624}} f. 117.</ref>|end=1 January, 1926<ref>Bingham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/117.|D7603624}} f. 117.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D), [[Nore Destroyer Flotilla]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Leonard Laurence Peel Willan|nick=Leonard L. P. Willan|appt=1 November, 1922<ref>Willan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/322.|D7576615}} f. 322.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 245}}|end=29 December, 1924<ref>Willan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/322.|D7576615}} f. 322.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D), [[Nore Reserve Flotilla]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Barry Stewart Bingham|nick=The Hon. Edward B. S. Bingham|appt=29 December, 1924<ref>Bingham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/117.|D7603624}} f. 117.</ref>|end=1 January, 1926<ref>Bingham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/117.|D7603624}} f. 117.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D), [[Nore Destroyer Flotilla]]|succBy=Vessel Decommissioned}}
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Latest revision as of 00:51, 18 February 2024

H.M.S. Hecla (1878)
Pendant Number: 7A (1914)
C7 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Harland & Wolff[2]
Launched: 13 Jun, 1878[3]
Sold: 13 Jul, 1926[4]

H.M.S. Hecla was a civilian ship, British Crown purchased on the stocks for use as a depot ship.

Service

In mid-May 1878, it was proposed to refit Hecla at Portsmouth as an armed troopship carrying five 64-pdr 71 cwt guns and one 40-pdr B.L. gun.[5]

Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 26 May, 1882.[6]

Hecla soon proved herself "a very wet ship." During one trial cruise in Bantry Bay in late 1883 the sea "made clean sweeps over her aft, and flooder her beyond the waist, besides breaking the skylights of the deck cabins."[7]

In September 1883, Hecla was unable to cruise with the rest of the Channel Squadron owing to "a long list of defects" reported to Portsmouth Royal Dockyard. She required repairs to the pistons of her main engines and her complement of second-class torpedo boats.[8]

Hecla participated in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1890 under the command of Captain Edwin J. P. Gallwey as part of a Reserve Fleet of the force representing the Royal Navy, headquartered in the Downs.[9]

She, Flirt and Star of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla were paid off on 30 April 1912 and re-commissioned the following day.[10]

Hecla served with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla at Scapa Flow from 1914-16 then supported the Second Destroyer Flotilla from Belfast in 1917 and 1918.[11]

She recommissioned at Chatham on 22 October, 1919.[12]

Captains

Dates of appointment given.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  3. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  5. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 17 May 1878, p. 7.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (September, 1885). p. 214.
  7. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. Wednesday, 1 January, 1879. Issue 29453, col B, p. 10.
  8. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. Monday, 10 September, 1883. Issue 30921, col A, p. 5.
  9. ↑ "Naval Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 19, 1890; pg. 12; Issue 33068.
  10. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 29 Apr. 1912, p. 14.
  11. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 292.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 245.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1880). p. 215.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (September, 1881). p. 215.
  15. ↑ Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/14. f. 942.
  16. ↑ Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/14. f. 942.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1884). p. 215.
  18. ↑ Stewart Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1101. f. 1234.
  19. ↑ Stewart Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1101. f. 1234.
  20. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1886). p. 214.
  21. ↑ Jeffreys Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/16. f. 518.
  22. ↑ Jeffreys Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/16. f. 518.
  23. ↑ Jeffreys Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/16. f. 518.
  24. ↑ Jeffreys Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/16. f. 518.
  25. ↑ Gallwey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/422
  26. ↑ Campbell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/221. ff. 195, 199.
  27. ↑ Campbell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/221. ff. 195, 199.
  28. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1892). p. 224.
  29. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 229.
  30. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1900). p. 257.
  31. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, 5 July, 1900. Issue 36186, col D, p. 10.
  32. ↑ "The Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), Thursday, July 11, 1901, Issue 36504, p.8.
  33. ↑ Charlton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 282.
  34. ↑ Charlton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 282.
  35. ↑ Nicholas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 306.
  36. ↑ Nicholas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 306.
  37. ↑ Tyrwhitt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 125.
  38. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1909). p. 325.
  39. ↑ Tyrwhitt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 125.
  40. ↑ Leake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 69.
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