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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment given:
 
Dates of appointment given:
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*{{CaptRN}} [[William Des Vœux Hamilton]], September 1895.
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* Captain Edward P. Jones, May 1896.
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* Captain [[Frederic William Fisher]], October 1898.
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* Captain [[Colin Richard Keppel]], March 1902.
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* Captain [[Robert Grant Fraser]], November 1904.
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* Captain [[William Oswald Story]], April 1905.
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* Captain [[Frederick Charles Ashley Ogilvy]], February 1906.
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* Captain [[Edward Montgomery Phillpotts]], August 1906.
 
*Captain [[Charles Frederick Thorp|Charles F. Thorp]], 10 January, 1907.<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 322.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Charles Frederick Thorp|Charles F. Thorp]], 10 January, 1907.<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 322.</ref>
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* Captain [[Edward Montgomery Phillpotts]],  
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* Captain [[Ronald Arthur Hopwood]], January 1909.
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* Captain [[Constantine Henry Hughes-Onslow]], March 1910.
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* Captain [[Frederic Aubrey Whitehead]], March 1912.
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* Captain [[Hugh Lindsay Patrick Heard]], August 1914.
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* Captain [[Henry Edgar Grace]]]], June 1915.
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* Captain [[Percy Johnson]], July 1917.
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* Captain [[Percival Henry Warleigh]], August 1919.
  
 
==Torpedoes==
 
==Torpedoes==
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In 1904, in a competition to investigate how rapidly submerged tubes could be fired four times sequentially, starting with the tube loaded and the bar out, in three trials the ship's crew was able to do this in 4:45 (port), 5:29 (starboard), and 1:41 (port).  The best time was achieved by [[H.M.S. Cressy (1899)|''Cressy'']] at 50.75 seconds, though times of 3-5 minutes were more typical.{{ARTS1904|pp. 45-7}}
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In 1904, in a competition to investigate how rapidly submerged tubes could be fired four times sequentially, starting with the tube loaded and the bar out, in three trials the ship's crew was able to do this in 4:45 (port), 5:29 (starboard), and 1:41 (port).  The best time was achieved by {{UK-Cressy}} at 50.75 seconds, though times of 3-5 minutes were more typical.{{ARTS1904|pp. 45-7}}
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 15:59, 19 October 2012

H.M.S. Grafton (1892)
Pendant Number: A8 (1914)
N.23 (Sep 1915)
N.53 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Thames Iron Works, Blackwall[2]
Laid down: 1 Jan, 1890[3]
Launched: 30 Jan, 1892[4]
Commissioned: 18 Oct, 1894[5]
Sold: 1 Jul, 1920[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

Torpedoes

In 1904, in a competition to investigate how rapidly submerged tubes could be fired four times sequentially, starting with the tube loaded and the bar out, in three trials the ship's crew was able to do this in 4:45 (port), 5:29 (starboard), and 1:41 (port).  The best time was achieved by Cressy at 50.75 seconds, though times of 3-5 minutes were more typical.[8]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 38.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 38.
  7. ↑ The Navy List (October, 1908). p. 322.
  8. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1904. pp. 45-7.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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