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==Service==
 
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Re-commissioned on 17 October, 1918.{{NLJan23|p. 786}}
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Built at a cost of £20,246.{{NMI|Tuesday, Nov 09, 1886; pg. 7; Issue 31912}}
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By November, 1886, she was identified as one of forty-one vessels of various types the Navy had decided to dispose of due to their lack of practical value in the event of war.{{NMI|Tuesday, Nov 09, 1886; pg. 7; Issue 31912}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Godfrey George Webster|nick=Godfrey G. Webster|appt=18 February, 1902{{NLMay03|p. 282}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=John Hope|nick=John Hope|appt=10 February, 1876{{NLJul76|p. 190}}|end=18 July, 1877|note=invalided|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Frederick Burnaby Noble|nick=Frederick B. Noble|appt=26 January, 1904<ref>Noble Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/248.|D7603034}} f. 282.</ref>{{NLOct04|p. 346.  25 January given here}}|end=mid 1906{{INF}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=William Melvin Carey|nick=William M. Carey|appt=28 July, 1877{{NLOct78|p. 225}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Robert Ernest Vaughan|nick=Robert E. Vaughan|appt=8 May, 1906{{NLMar07|p. 347}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=James Henry Corfe|nick=James H. Corfe|appt=14 September, 1880{{NLApr83|p. 225}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}}|name=George Piercy Leith|nick=George P. Leith|appt=19 April, 1909<ref>Leith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/437.|D7576629}} f. 439.</ref>{{NLJan10|p. 347}}|end=10 October, 1912<ref>Leith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/437.|D7576629}} f. 439.</ref>}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Victor Percy Alleyne|nick=Victor P. Alleyne|appt=14 January, 1921{{NLJan23|p. 786}}|end=January, 1923{{NLJan23|p. 786}}{{NLJul24|p. 256}}|note=obviously for a later ''Moorhen''}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Francis James Harold Dawson|nick=Francis J. H. Dawson|appt=27 January, 1923<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/248.|D7605003}} f. 262.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 256}}|end=March, 1925<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/248.|D7605003}} f. 262.</ref>|note=obviously for a later ''Moorhen''}}
 
 
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
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* [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-11-HMS_Moorhen.htm Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net]
 
 
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Latest revision as of 15:17, 26 September 2019

H.M.S. Moorhen (1875)
Builder: Robert Napier & Sons[1]
Launched: 13 Sep, 1875[Citation needed]
Sold: 1888[2]

H.M.S. Moorhen was one of twelve Forester Class gunboats completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Built at a cost of £20,246.[3]

By November, 1886, she was identified as one of forty-one vessels of various types the Navy had decided to dispose of due to their lack of practical value in the event of war.[4]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
  3. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Nov 09, 1886; pg. 7; Issue 31912.
  4. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Nov 09, 1886; pg. 7; Issue 31912.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1876). p. 190.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1878). p. 225.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1883). p. 225.

Bibliography


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