Fifth Destroyer Flotilla (Royal Navy)

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The Fifth Destroyer Flotilla was a formation of destroyers of the Royal Navy. Originally called the Devonport Flotilla and comprised of Nucleus Crew vessels, it was re-designated as the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla in April, 1910.[1]

During the Dardanelles campaign, sixteen Beagle class were amongst those comprising the Fifth in the Mediterranean.[2][3]

In 1916, it was comprised of River, Beagle and Acorn class destroyers, whose torpedo test runnings in the first half of that year resulted in shots that were 79%, 82% and 80% likely to be dangerous to the enemy.[4]

Composition

1 November, 1911

The flotilla was comprised of:[5]

July, 1914

The flotilla was based in the Mediterranean, and each of the sixteen destroyers were allotted a larger store of rifles and associated landing party supplies, roughly double the previous total, bring the number of rifles to 24.[6]

September, 1914

There are sixteen Beagles with depot ship Blenheim, but no Captain (D) is mentioned, and there are no leaders.[7]

Supporting the Mediterranean Fleet
Basilisk Beagle Bulldog Foxhound Grampus Grasshopper Harpy Mosquito
Pincher Racoon Rattlesnake Renard Savage Scorpion Scourge Wolverine

This roster and tasking would persist until November or December, 1914.[8]

December, 1914

There are now twelve Beagles with depot ship Blenheim, but no Captain (D) is mentioned, and there are no leaders. The flotilla is now in Home and Atlantic Waters. Beagle, Bulldog, Pincher and {UK-Rattlesnake}} are gone, and noted as "joining squadrons". They would appear in the local defence flotilla at Portsmouth in February or March, 1915.[9][10]

In Home and Atlantic Waters
Basilisk Foxhound Grampus Grasshopper Harpy Mosquito
Racoon Renard Savage Scorpion Scourge Wolverine

January, 1915

The flotilla is reformed in the Mediterranean with seven newcomer destroyers under third class protected cruiser Sapphire.

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Captains (D)

Dates of appointment given:

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 20 April, 1910. Issue 39251, col A, p. 9.
  2. ↑ March. British Destroyers. pp. 108, 164.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 73.
  4. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916. p. 87.
  5. ↑ March. British Destroyers. p. 160.
  6. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 125 of 10 July 1914.
  7. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (September 1914). p. 15.
  8. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (October, 1914). p. 15. No November volume was found.
  9. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 11.
  10. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1915). p. 16.
  11. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 21 November, 1910. Issue 39435, col F, p. 8.
  12. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 25 April, 1912. Issue 39882, col E, p. 10.
  13. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 6 January, 1914. Issue 40413, col G, p. 11.
  14. ↑ Navy List (December, 1918). p. 743.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
  • March, Edgar J. (1966). British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892-1953. London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited. (on Bookfinder.com).

See Also



British Destroyer Flotillas
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth | Tenth
Eleventh | Twelfth | Thirteenth | Fourteenth | Fifteenth | Sixteenth | Seventeenth | Eighteenth | Nineteenth
Twentieth | Twenty-first
Local Defence Flotillas
Clyde | Devonport | Devonport & Falmouth | Falmouth | Firth of Forth | Gibraltar
Liverpool | Mersey | Newhaven | Nore | North Channel | Milford & Pembroke | Pembroke
Portland | Portsmouth | Queenstown

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