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''Trafalgar'' was commissioned at Portsmouth on 2 April, 1890, by Captain [[Alan Brodrick Thomas|Alan B. Thomas]], with a complement of 550 officers and men, as flag ship of Rear-Admiral [[Walter Talbot Kerr|Lord Walter Kerr]], second-in-command of the [[Mediterranean Station|Mediterranean Squadron]].<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Thursday, 3 April, 1890.  Issue '''32976''', col F, p. 7.</ref>
 
''Trafalgar'' was commissioned at Portsmouth on 2 April, 1890, by Captain [[Alan Brodrick Thomas|Alan B. Thomas]], with a complement of 550 officers and men, as flag ship of Rear-Admiral [[Walter Talbot Kerr|Lord Walter Kerr]], second-in-command of the [[Mediterranean Station|Mediterranean Squadron]].<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Thursday, 3 April, 1890.  Issue '''32976''', col F, p. 7.</ref>
  
On 25 October 1901, she collided with {{UK-Nile}} and Captain Rolleston of ''Nile'' was told that the Admiralty observed "with surprise and regret that he did not consider his immediate attendance on deck necessary during the performance of a Fleet Evolution, especially in view of the fact that the movement in question was ordered for the purpose of taking the squadron into narrow waters."<ref>Rolleston Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/39/365.|D7578965}} ff. 1118, 1121.</ref>
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On 25 October 1901, she collided with {{UK-Nile}} and Captain [[Robert Sidney Rolleston|Rolleston]] of ''Nile'' was told that the Admiralty observed "with surprise and regret that he did not consider his immediate attendance on deck necessary during the performance of a Fleet Evolution, especially in view of the fact that the movement in question was ordered for the purpose of taking the squadron into narrow waters."<ref>Rolleston Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/39/365.|D7578965}} ff. 1118, 1121.</ref>
  
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alan Brodrick Thomas|nick=Alan B. Thomas|ass=2 April, 1890<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Saturday, 22 March, 1890.  Issue '''32966''', col F, p. 12.</ref>|appt=1 November, 1889<ref>Thomas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37.}}  f. 1301.</ref>|end=27 January, 1892<ref>Thomas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37.}}  f. 1301.</ref>|note=invalided out for diabetes|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alan Brodrick Thomas|nick=Alan B. Thomas|ass=2 April, 1890<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Saturday, 22 March, 1890.  Issue '''32966''', col F, p. 12.</ref>|appt=1 November, 1889<ref>Thomas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37.}}  f. 1301.</ref>|end=27 January, 1892<ref>Thomas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/37.}}  f. 1301.</ref>|note=invalided out for diabetes|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Grey Robinson|nick=Charles G. Robinson|appt=29 January, 1892{{NLMar92|p. 259}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Grey Robinson|nick=Charles G. Robinson|appt=29 January, 1892{{NLMar92|p. 259}}|end=5 March, 1894}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Archibald Berkeley Milne, Second Baronet|nick=A. Berkeley Milne|appt=5 March, 1894<ref>Milne Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 891.</ref>|end=4 May, 1896<ref>Milne Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 891.</ref>|ass=30 March, 1894<ref>Milne Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 891.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Archibald Berkeley Milne, Second Baronet|nick=A. Berkeley Milne|appt=5 March, 1894<ref>Milne Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 891.</ref>|end=4 May, 1896<ref>Milne Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 891.</ref>|ass=30 March, 1894<ref>Milne Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 891.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Reginald Charles Prothero|nick=Reginald C. Prothero|appt=14 April, 1896<ref>Prothero Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 1063.</ref>|end=December, 1896{{CN}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Reginald Charles Prothero|nick=Reginald C. Prothero|appt=14 April, 1896<ref>Prothero Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 1063.</ref>|end=December, 1896{{CN}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Anson Primrose|nick=George A. Primrose|appt=15 December, 1899<ref>Primrose Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39/257.|D7601651}} f. 1061.</ref>{{NLMay02|p. 307''a''}}|end=1902<ref>Primrose Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39/257.|D7601651}} f. 1061.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Anson Primrose|nick=George A. Primrose|appt=15 December, 1899<ref>Primrose Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39/257.|D7601651}} f. 1061.</ref>{{NLMay02|p. 307''a''}}|end=1902<ref>Primrose Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39/257.|D7601651}} f. 1061.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Lyon|nick=Herbert Lyon|appt=25 April, 1905<ref>Lyon Service Record at {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}}  f. 446.</ref>|end=27 December, 1905<ref>Lyon Service Record at {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}}  f. 446.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Lyon|nick=Herbert Lyon|appt=25 April, 1905<ref>Lyon Service Record at {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}}  f. 446.</ref>|end=27 December, 1905<ref>Lyon Service Record at {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}}  f. 446.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Delabere Granville|nick=Charles D. Granville|appt=12 December, 1905{{NLJun06|p. 387}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Delabere Granville|nick=Charles D. Granville|appt=12 December, 1905{{NLJun06|p. 387}}|end=9 August, 1906}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Henry Hodgson Moore|nick=Charles H. H. Moore|appt=9 August, 1906<ref>Moore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 689.</ref>|end=14 April, 1907<ref>Moore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 689.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Henry Hodgson Moore|nick=Charles H. H. Moore|appt=9 August, 1906<ref>Moore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 689.</ref>|end=14 April, 1907<ref>Moore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 689.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Herbert Algernon Adam|nick=Herbert A. Adam|appt=8 April, 1907<ref>Adam Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 232.</ref>|end=5 March, 1908<ref>Adam Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 232.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Herbert Algernon Adam|nick=Herbert A. Adam|appt=8 April, 1907<ref>Adam Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 232.</ref>|end=5 March, 1908<ref>Adam Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 232.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Maurice Swynfen FitzMaurice|nick=Maurice S. FitzMaurice|appt=5 March, 1908<ref>FitzMaurice Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 148.</ref>|end=1 September, 1908<ref>FitzMaurice Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D8112203}} f. 148.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Maurice Swynfen FitzMaurice|nick=Maurice S. FitzMaurice|appt=5 March, 1908<ref>FitzMaurice Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 148.</ref>|end=1 September, 1908<ref>FitzMaurice Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D8112203}} f. 148.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Guy Wright Davy|nick=Edward G. W. Davy|appt=1 November, 1908{{NLOct08|p. 387}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Guy Wright Davy|nick=Edward G. W. Davy|appt=1 September, 1908|end=22 April, 1909}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edmund Radcliffe Pears|nick=Edmund R. Pears|appt=21 April, 1909<ref>Pears Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}}  f. 86.</ref>|end=5 April, 1910<ref>Pears Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 86.</ref>|note=and for command of Special Service Division at Chatham}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edmund Radcliffe Pears|nick=Edmund R. Pears|appt=21 April, 1909<ref>Pears Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}}  f. 86.</ref>|end=5 April, 1910<ref>Pears Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 86.</ref>|note=and for command of Special Service Division at Chatham}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Francis William Kennedy|nick=Francis W. Kennedy|appt=5 April, 1910<ref>Kennedy Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 131.</ref>|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Francis William Kennedy|nick=Francis W. Kennedy|appt=5 April, 1910<ref>Kennedy Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 131.</ref>|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Harold Ernest Browne|nick=Harold E. Browne|appt=4 October, 1910|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Harold Ernest Browne|nick=Harold E. Browne|appt=4 October, 1910{{NMI|Tuesday, October 4, 1910, Issue 39394, p.6}}|end=3 May, 1911<ref>Browne Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/400.|D7576577}} f. 442.</ref>}}
 
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H.M.S. Trafalgar (1887)
Builder: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard[1]
Laid down: 1 Jan, 1886[2]
Launched: 20 Sep, 1887[3]
Completed: Mar, 1890[4]
Commissioned: Mar, 1890[5]
Sold: 9 Mar, 1911
Fate: Scrapped

H.M.S. Trafalgar was one of two Trafalgar class battleships completed in 1890 and 1891.

Service

Trafalgar was commissioned at Portsmouth on 2 April, 1890, by Captain Alan B. Thomas, with a complement of 550 officers and men, as flag ship of Rear-Admiral Lord Walter Kerr, second-in-command of the Mediterranean Squadron.[6]

On 25 October 1901, she collided with Nile and Captain Rolleston of Nile was told that the Admiralty observed "with surprise and regret that he did not consider his immediate attendance on deck necessary during the performance of a Fleet Evolution, especially in view of the fact that the movement in question was ordered for the purpose of taking the squadron into narrow waters."[7]

Radio

In 1901, while serving as a Port Guard ship, she had or was slated to receive a "1 to 52" W/T set.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 31.
  2. Burt. British Battleships: 1889-1904. p. 48.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 31.
  4. Burt. British Battleships: 1889-1904. p. 48.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 31.
  6. "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 3 April, 1890. Issue 32976, col F, p. 7.
  7. Rolleston Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/365. ff. 1118, 1121.
  8. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1901. p. 111.
  9. Thomas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37. f. 1301.
  10. Thomas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37. f. 1301.
  11. The Navy List. (March, 1892). p. 259.
  12. Milne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 891.
  13. Milne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 891.
  14. Prothero Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1063.
  15. Grenfell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/15. f. 426.
  16. Davis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/329. f. 294.
  17. Davis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/329. f. 294.
  18. Bickford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36. f. 100.
  19. The Navy List. (October, 1898). p. 304.
  20. Giffard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 514.
  21. Giffard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 514.
  22. Primrose Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/257. f. 1061.
  23. The Navy List. (May, 1902). p. 307a.
  24. Primrose Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/257. f. 1061.
  25. Lyon Service Record at The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 446.
  26. Lyon Service Record at The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 446.
  27. The Navy List. (June, 1906). p. 387.
  28. Moore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 689.
  29. Moore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 689.
  30. Adam Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 232.
  31. Adam Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 232.
  32. FitzMaurice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 148.
  33. FitzMaurice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 148.
  34. Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 86.
  35. Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 86.
  36. Kennedy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 131.
  37. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, October 4, 1910, Issue 39394, p.6.
  38. Browne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/400. f. 442.

Bibliography


Trafalgar Class Second Class Battleship
  Nile Trafalgar  
<– Sans Pareil Class Battleships (UK) Royal Sovereign Class –>