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+ | '''H.M.S. ''Magnificent''''' was a [[Majestic Class Battleship (1894)|''Majestic'' class]] battleship of the British [[Royal Navy]], launched in 1894 and sold for scrap in 1921. She was the third Royal Navy warship to bear the name. | ||
==Career== | ==Career== |
Revision as of 15:45, 23 May 2012
Career | Details |
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Built By: | Chatham Royal Dockyard |
Laid down: | 18 December, 1893 |
Launched: | 19 December, 1894 |
Commissioned: | 12 December, 1895 |
Sold: | 9 May, 1921 |
Fate: | Scrapped |
H.M.S. Magnificent was a Majestic class battleship of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1894 and sold for scrap in 1921. She was the third Royal Navy warship to bear the name.
Career
Pendant Numbers.[1] | |
1914 | D.13 |
September, 1915 | P.83 |
January, 1918 | P.3A |
Magnificent paid off on 8 August, 1917.[2]
Radio
By the end of 1901, she was fitted or due to receive a Marconi W/T set.[3]
Captains
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Richard B. Farquhar, 6 November, 1906.[4]
- Captain Edward F. B. Charlton, 21 May, 1907.[5]
- Captain Richard Morden Harbord-Hamond, Tenth Baron Suffield, 27 November, 1908.[6]
- Captain George Price Webley Hope, 24 March, 1909.[7], recommissioning her on 8 February 1910.[8]
- Captain Cunningham R. de C. Foot, 28 February, 1910.[9]
- Captain Frederic A. Whitehead, 1 August, 1914.[10]
- Captain Percival H. Warleigh, 7 September, 1915.[11]
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. p. 29.
- ↑ The Navy List (November, 1917). p. 395k.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1901. p. 111.
- ↑ Farquhar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. Book 2. f. 446.
- ↑ The Navy List (October, 1908). p. 342.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 1 December, 1908. Issue 38818, col E, pg. 6.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 15 March, 1909. Issue 38907, col B, pg. 9.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 31 January, 1910. Issue 39183, col B, pg. 17.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 7 February, 1910. Issue 39189, col F, pg. 4.
- ↑ The Navy List (December, 1914). p. 352.
- ↑ The Navy List (October, 1915). p. 395q.
Bibliography