H.M.S. Fervent (1895)

H.M.S. Fervent (1895)
Pendant Number:	N.17 (1914) D.97 (Sep 1915) D.39 (1918)
Builder:	Hanna, Donald & Wilson
Ordered:	1893-94
Laid down:	27 Mar, 1894
Launched:	28 Mar, 1895
Commissioned:	Jun, 1900
Broken up:	1920

H.M.S. Fervent was one of thirty-six 27 Knotters, a broad meta-class of early Torpedo Boat Destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s.

She was one of the few such early destroyers to serve throughout the Great War.

Construction & Service

She was one of twenty-seven T.B.Ds. of the Portsmouth Flotilla to participate in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1909.

In mid-1913, she was stationed in The Nore.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander Godfrey E. Corbett, 12 June, 1900 – 4 September, 1900
• Lieutenant & Commander Edward H. M. Nicholson, 16 July, 1901 – 14 August, 1901  (for the Annual Manoeuvres of 1901)
• Lieutenant & Commander Cecil H. France-Hayhurst, March, 1902 – 10 June, 1902
• Lieutenant & Commander Walter R. G. Petre, 21 June, 1902 – 15 October, 1903
• Lieutenant in Command Claude Seymour, 15 October, 1903 – 4 May, 1904
• Lieutenant & Commander Percy Crabtree, 14 May, 1904 – 20 July, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Percy Johnson, 27 July, 1905 – 1906
• Chief Gunner in Command Walter G. Jones, April, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander Robert J. Buchanan, 1 January, 1907 – 4 July, 1907
• Lieutenant & Commander Henry M. Fothergill, 5 April, 1908 – 10 August, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander George L. D. Gibbs, 10 August, 1909 – 1 January, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Richard W. U. Bayly, 1 January, 1910 – 15 January, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Herbert E. W. C. Whyte, 22 August, 1910 – December, 1912
• Lieutenant in Command Henry R. James, 18 April, 1913 – 3 December, 1915  (lent Weymouth for manoeuvres on 15 July, 1913)
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Frank Pattinson, 9 December, 1915 – 28 June, 1916
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Frank J. Couldrey, 29 July, 1916 – 4 March, 1919

See Also

• Wikipedia