H.M.S. Boyne (1904)

H.M.S. Boyne (1904)
Pendant Number:	N.68 (1914) D.12 (Sep 1915) H.23 (Sep 1918)
Builder:	Hawthorn Leslie & Company
Ordered:	1903-04 Programme
Laid down:	16 Feb, 1904
Launched:	12 Sep, 1904
Commissioned:	May, 1905
Broken up:	1919

H.M.S. Boyne was one of 36 destroyers of the "River" class.

Service

She and ten other "Rivers" of the Devonport Reserve followed the scout cruiser H.M.S. Skirmisher from Plymouth on 21 August 1905 for a practice cruise along the Devon and Cornish coasts.

On 29 August, 1905, as the force engaged in exercises at Torbay, Boyne was struck in the stern by Leopard as the formation was changed. Leopard had been following Boyne when Leopard's steering gear malfunctioned. Collision mats were able to stem the damage while the two destroyers made their way back to Devonport under escort of H.M.S. Liffey.

In mid-1913, she was in a patrol flotilla, the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla.

Operating with the Devonport Local Defence Flotilla from early 1915 until joining the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla in August, 1917. She remained with 7 D.F. operating off the East Coast of England until January, 1919 when she was sent "temporarily" to the Nore.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander Cyril Asser, 22 May, 1905 – 28 May, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander Ernest E. Parker, 28 May, 1906 – September, 1907
• Commander Charles J. Collins, September, 1907 – 15 June, 1908
• Lieutenant & Commander Harold V. Dundas, 11 October, 1907 – 15 June, 1908
• Lieutenant in Command Claude Seymour, 26 June, 1908  (temporary, lent from command in Erne)
• Lieutenant & Commander Clive C. H. Maitland-Addison, 5 August, 1910 – 14 June, 1911
• Lieutenant & Commander Clive C. H. Maitland-Addison, 8 August, 1911 – 15 August, 1911
• Lieutenant in Command Adrian St. V. Keyes, 15 August, 1911 – 24 August, 1911
• Lieutenant & Commander Nigel K. W. Barttelot, 24 August, 1911 – 4 January, 1912
• Lieutenant & Commander Hugh C. Johnson, 4 January, 1912 – 4 June, 1912
• Lieutenant & Commander Sydney Hopkins, June, 1912 – July, 1912
• Lieutenant-Commander (I, Fr.) Harry MacL. Fraser, 31 July, 1912 – December, 1912
• Lieutenant-Commander (I, Fr.) Harry MacL. Fraser, 1 May, 1913 – September, 1913
• Lieutenant-Commander George B. Hartford, 25 November, 1913 – 11 December, 1913
• Lieutenant-Commander Robert Makin, 11 December, 1913 – 4 December, 1915
• Lieutenant & Commander Richard S. Robinson, 4 December, 1915 – 15 February, 1916
• Lieutenant-Commander Frederick A. Warner, 15 February, 1916 – 22 February, 1916
• Lieutenant in Command Vernon Hammersley-Heenan, 2 April, 1916 – 12 August, 1916
• Lieutenant in Command Herbert M. Hughes, 12 August, 1916 – January, 1917
• Acting Commander R.N.R. Frederick J. Thompson, 9 January, 1917 – 11 July, 1917
• Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. William B. Clementson, 11 July, 1917 – 19 December, 1918

The conflict between Collins and Dundas is noted.

See Also

• Wikipedia