H.M.S. St. George (1892)
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| Pendant Number: | N.31 (1914) N.88 (Jan 1918)[1] |
| Builder: | Earle, Hull[2] |
| Laid down: | 23 Apr, 1890[3] |
| Launched: | 23 Jun, 1892[4] |
| Commissioned: | 25 Oct, 1894[5] |
| Sold: | 1 Jul, 1920[6] |
H.M.S. St. George was completed in 1894 as one of nine Edgar class cruisers, but was converted to a depot ship before the Great War.
Service
St. George completed conversion to depot ship in March, 1910,[7] commissioning at Chatham on the 15th.[8] She would serve the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla in the Forth from mid-1913 if not earlier,[9] the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla in the Humber in 1914-15, and finally to the Mediterranean.[10]
Captains
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Edward Harpur Gamble, December 1894.[11]
- Captain George Le Clerc Egerton, May 1895.[12]
- Captain Edmund Samuel Poe, October 1897.[13]
- Commodore, Second Class Edmund Samuel Poe, October 1899.[14]
- Captain Paul Warner Bush, 26 February 1901.[15]
- Captain Arthur Yerbury Moggridge, December 1904.[16]
- Captain Charles Henry Hodgson Moore, 1906.[17]
- Captain Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler, August 1906.[18]
- Captain Guy Lutley Sclater, March 1910.[19]
- Captain Edward George Lowther-Crofton, May 1911.[20]
- Captain Vincent Barkly Molteno, May 1912.[21]
- Captain Alan Cameron Bruce, December 1913.[22]
- Captain Cecil Dacre Staveley Raikes, 27 January, 1914.[23]
- Captain Reginald L. Crichton, March 1915.[24]
- Captain Sidney R. Olivier, November 1915.[25]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 370.
- ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 370.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 30 October, 1899. Issue 35973, col D, p. 7.
- ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 21 February, 1901. Issue 36384, col D, p. 10.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 369.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
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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