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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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* {{CGunnerRN}} in Command [[Alfred Reep]], 26 March, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 351.</ref>
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* {{CGunnerRN}} in Command [[Alfred Reep]], 26 March, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 351.</ref>
* Chief Gunner in Command [[Michael Horrigan]], 14 November, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 351.</ref>
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* Chief Gunner in Command [[Michael Horrigan]], 14 November, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 351.</ref>
* Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command [[Arthur James Baxter|Arthur J. Baxter]], July, 1917.<ref>''The Navy List'' (February 1919), p. 855.</ref>
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* Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command [[Arthur James Baxter|Arthur J. Baxter]], July, 1917.<ref>''The Navy List'' (February 1919), p. 855.</ref>
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 17:49, 28 April 2014

H.M.S. Opossum (1895)
Pendant Number: D.12 (1914)
D.99 (Sep 1915), D. 62 (1918)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Ordered: 1893-94[3]
Laid down: 17 Sep, 1894[4]
Launched: 9 Aug, 1895[5]
Commissioned: Mar, 1896[6]
Broken up: 1920[7]

H.M.S. Opossum was one of forty-two destroyers of the "A" class — a "27 knotter".

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 56.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 92.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 56.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  7. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  8. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 351.
  9. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 351.
  10. The Navy List (February 1919), p. 855.

Bibliography


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