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[[Category:Ship]]
'''H.M.S. ''Hercules''''' was one of two [[Colossus Class Battleship (1910)|''Colossus'' class battleships]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1911.
 
==Service==
At the end of 1912, ''Hercules'' had one of the twelve [[British_Wireless_Systems#Short_Distance_Set|Short Distance Radio Sets]] of five-mile range then installed in sea-going ships, situated behind armour near the fore bridge.{{ARTS1912|W/T Appendix, p. 8}}
 
From at least December 1913, she served in the {{UK-BS|1}}.  In 1913, ''Hercules'' was slated as part of the [[British Adoption of the Director#Early Orders|seventeen ship order]] to receive a director, but it was not fitted until sometime between May and December, 1915.{{FCHMShips|pp. 9-10}}
 
By the end of 1913, she and the rest of the {{UK-BS|1}} were all equipped with [[British_Wireless_Systems#Short_Distance_Set|Battleship Auxiliary W/T sets]].{{ARTS1913|W/T Appendix, p. 13}}
 
In June 1914, the ship was directed to return its [[Waymouth-Cooke Rangefinder]] to the manufacturer to replace the long telescope with a shorter one.{{AWO1914|68 of 26 June 1914}}
 
She left Scapa for refit at Liverpool at 04:00 on 6 November, 1915, arriving at Liverpool on 08:30 on the 7th.<ref>Jellicoe Papers.  British Library.  Add MS 49001.  f. 7.</ref>
 
By the end of 1915, and probably during 1915, she received one of the first three sets of [[Walker's Instruments]], presumably for trial.{{ARTS1915|p. 60}}
 
===Jutland===
:{{Main|H.M.S. Hercules at the Battle of Jutland}}
''Hercules'' operated at Jutland as part of the {{UK-BS|1}} in the battle, firing ninety-eight 12-in shells under the command of Captain [[Lewis Clinton-Baker]].  After the battle, ''Hercules'' was transferred to the {{UK-BS|4}} to become that formation's flagship.
 
In February 1919, ''Hercules'' was sent to Rosyth when the Fourth was disestablished,<ref>See {{UK-BS|1}} and {{UK-BS|4}} pages for references.</ref> reducing to reserve on 31 January 1919 and becoming flagship of the Reserve Fleet there by mid 1920.{{NLJan21|pp. 785, 786}}
 
In 1934, her bell was offered for sale to naval officers and others who might be interested, at the price of £10.  Interested parties were to write the Director of Stores and were urged to include any special information which might convey the importance they attach to the bell, in light of the Admiralty's understanding that such items carry great sentimental value.{{ToL|Ships' Bells for Sale|Wednesday, Apr 18, 1934; pg. 4; Issue 46731}}
 
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Hercules''">
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Mark Edward Frederic Kerr|nick=Mark E. F. Kerr|appt=February, 1911<ref>Kerr Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 30.</ref>|end=March, 1911<ref>Kerr Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 30.</ref>|precBy=New Command|note=to conduct trials}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick Dundas Gilpin-Brown|nick=Frederick D. Gilpin-Brown|appt=6 June, 1911<ref>Gilpin-Brown Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 395.</ref>|end=24 July, 1911<ref>Gilpin-Brown Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 395.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Allan Frederic Everett|nick=Allan F. Everett|appt=24 July, 1911<ref>Everett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 23.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain|end=5 December, 1911<ref>Everett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 23.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Ronald Arthur Hopwood|nick=Ronald A. Hopwood|appt=19 December, 1911<ref>Hopwood Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602364}} f. 16.</ref>{{NLAug12|p. 324}}|end=20 January, 1913<ref>Hopwood Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602364}} f. 16.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Henry Baird|nick=George H. Baird|appt=20 January, 1913{{NLMar13|p. 323}}|end=January, 1913}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Mark Edward Frederic Kerr|nick=Mark E. F. Kerr|appt=7 March, 1913{{NLJun13|p. 232}}|end=21 June, 1913<ref>Kerr Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 30.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Harvey Bruce|nick=Henry H. Bruce|appt=21 June, 1913{{NLDec14|p. 329}}|end=23 April, 1915<ref>Bruce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 85.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Lewis Clinton-Baker|nick=Lewis Clinton-Baker|appt=23 April, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 394''n''}}|end=June, 1916{{UKJutlandOD|p. 43}}<ref>Clinton-Baker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.|D7579083}} f. 394.</ref>|note=in command at [[Battle of Jutland]]}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Wise Parker|nick=Henry W. Parker|appt=June, 1916{{NLDec16|p. 395''c''}}|end=12 February, 1918<ref>Parker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 156.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain on transfer of flag}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alexander Lowndes|nick=Alexander Lowndes|appt=12 February, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 812}}<ref>Lowndes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 470.</ref>|end=30 March, 1919<ref>Lowndes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 470.</ref>|note=and as Chief of Staff to Vice-Admiral Commanding {{UK-BS|4}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Leslie Elder|nick=William L. Elder|appt=20 February, 1919|end=26 February, 1919|note=temporary, in place of absent Lowndes}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Louis Herbert Crozier|nick=Louis H. Crozier|appt=28 February, 1919|end=1 April, 1919|note=temporary}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Algernon Adam|nick=Herbert A. Adam|appt=1 April, 1919<ref>Adam Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 232.</ref>|end=31 July, 1919<ref>Adam Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 232.</ref>|note=and for command of a group of vessels at Rosyth}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=James Tobin Bush|nick=James T. Bush|appt=1 August, 1919{{NLAug19|p. 812}}|end=1 May, 1920}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Ralph Eliot|nick=Ralph Eliot|appt=15 May, 1920<ref>Eliot Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/15.|D7603522}} f. 15.</ref>{{NLDec20|p. 785}}|end=1 July, 1921{{ToL|Reserve FDleet Flagships|Friday, June 24, 1921, Issue 42755, p.18}}|note=and as Flag Captain to R/A MacLachlan}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Reginald St. Pierre Parry|nick=Reginald St. P. Parry|appt=1 July, 1921<ref>Parry Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.}} f. 34.</ref>|ass=1 July, 1921<ref>Parry Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.}} f. 34.</ref>|end=October, 1921<ref>Parry Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/91.}} f. 39.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain to R/A [[Charles Blois Miller|C. B. Miller]]}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
 
==See Also==
{{refbegin}}
{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hercules_(1910)}}
{{refend}}
 
==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}
 
==Bibliography==
*{{UKDockyardExpenseAccounts1912}}
*{{UKDockyardExpenseAccounts1913}}
*{{FCHMShips}}
*{{DittColl}}
*{{ParkesBritishBattleships}}
 
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hercules}}
 
{{CatShipDreadnought|UK}}

Latest revision as of 08:20, 26 September 2022

H.M.S. Hercules (1910)
Pendant Number: 47 (1914)
69 (Jan 1918)
54 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Hebburn[2]
Laid down: 30 Jul, 1909[3]
Launched: 10 May, 1910[4]
Completed: 15 June, 1911[5]
Commissioned: 31 Jul, 1911
Sold: 8 Nov, 1921[6]
Fate: Scrapped
First cost: £1,529,540[7]

H.M.S. Hercules was one of two Colossus class battleships completed for the Royal Navy in 1911.

Service

At the end of 1912, Hercules had one of the twelve Short Distance Radio Sets of five-mile range then installed in sea-going ships, situated behind armour near the fore bridge.[8]

From at least December 1913, she served in the First Battle Squadron. In 1913, Hercules was slated as part of the seventeen ship order to receive a director, but it was not fitted until sometime between May and December, 1915.[9]

By the end of 1913, she and the rest of the First Battle Squadron were all equipped with Battleship Auxiliary W/T sets.[10]

In June 1914, the ship was directed to return its Waymouth-Cooke Rangefinder to the manufacturer to replace the long telescope with a shorter one.[11]

She left Scapa for refit at Liverpool at 04:00 on 6 November, 1915, arriving at Liverpool on 08:30 on the 7th.[12]

By the end of 1915, and probably during 1915, she received one of the first three sets of Walker's Instruments, presumably for trial.[13]

Jutland

Main article: H.M.S. Hercules at the Battle of Jutland

Hercules operated at Jutland as part of the First Battle Squadron in the battle, firing ninety-eight 12-in shells under the command of Captain Lewis Clinton-Baker. After the battle, Hercules was transferred to the Fourth Battle Squadron to become that formation's flagship.

In February 1919, Hercules was sent to Rosyth when the Fourth was disestablished,[14] reducing to reserve on 31 January 1919 and becoming flagship of the Reserve Fleet there by mid 1920.[15]

In 1934, her bell was offered for sale to naval officers and others who might be interested, at the price of £10. Interested parties were to write the Director of Stores and were urged to include any special information which might convey the importance they attach to the bell, in light of the Admiralty's understanding that such items carry great sentimental value.[16]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 32.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 32.
  3. ↑ Navy (Dockyard Expense Accounts). 1912–1913. p. 37.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 32.
  5. ↑ Navy (Dockyard Expense Accounts). 1912–1913. p. 37.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 32.
  7. ↑ Navy (Dockyard Expense Accounts). 1913–1914. p. 137.
  8. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. W/T Appendix, p. 8.
  9. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 9-10.
  10. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1913. W/T Appendix, p. 13.
  11. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 68 of 26 June 1914.
  12. ↑ Jellicoe Papers. British Library. Add MS 49001. f. 7.
  13. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. p. 60.
  14. ↑ See First Battle Squadron and Fourth Battle Squadron pages for references.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). pp. 785, 786.
  16. ↑ "Ships' Bells for Sale." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Apr 18, 1934; pg. 4; Issue 46731.
  17. ↑ Kerr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 30.
  18. ↑ Kerr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 30.
  19. ↑ Gilpin-Brown Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 395.
  20. ↑ Gilpin-Brown Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 395.
  21. ↑ Everett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 23.
  22. ↑ Everett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 23.
  23. ↑ Hopwood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 16.
  24. ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 324.
  25. ↑ Hopwood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 16.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 323.
  27. ↑ The Navy List. (June, 1913). p. 232.
  28. ↑ Kerr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 30.
  29. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 329.
  30. ↑ Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 85.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 394n.
  32. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 43.
  33. ↑ Clinton-Baker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 394.
  34. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 395c.
  35. ↑ Parker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 156.
  36. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 812.
  37. ↑ Lowndes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 470.
  38. ↑ Lowndes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 470.
  39. ↑ Adam Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 232.
  40. ↑ Adam Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 232.
  41. ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1919). p. 812.
  42. ↑ Eliot Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/15. f. 15.
  43. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 785.
  44. ↑ "Reserve FDleet Flagships." The Times (London, England), Friday, June 24, 1921, Issue 42755, p.18.
  45. ↑ Parry Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 34.
  46. ↑ Parry Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91. f. 39.

Bibliography

  • Navy (Dockyard Expense Accounts). 1912–1913. London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationary Office. 1914.
  • Navy (Dockyard Expense Accounts). 1913–1914. London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationary Office. 1915.
  • Admiralty, Technical History Section (1919). The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships. Vol. 3, Part 23. C.B. 1515 (23) now O.U. 6171/14. At The National Archives. ADM 275/19.
  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
  • Parkes, O.B.E., Ass.I.N.A., Dr. Oscar (1990). British Battleships 1860–1950. London: Pen & Sword Ltd. ISBN 0850526043. (on Bookfinder.com).


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