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|name=Cheerful
 
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|launch=14 Jul, 1897{{DittColl|p. 57}}
 
|launch=14 Jul, 1897{{DittColl|p. 57}}
|builder=[[Hawthorn Leslie]]{{DittColl|p. 57}}
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|builder=[[Hawthorn Leslie & Company]]{{DittColl|p. 57}}
 
|laid=7 Sep, 1896{{Conways1860|p. 95}}
 
|laid=7 Sep, 1896{{Conways1860|p. 95}}
 
|fate=Mined
 
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==Service==
 
==Service==
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''Cheerful'' arrived at Sheerness with six other destroyers from the North Sea on 1 October, 1901.{{NMI|October 2, 1901, Issue 36575, p.10}}
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In mid-1913, she was home ported in Portland and serving in the {{UK-DF|6}}.{{NLJul13|p. 292}}
 
In mid-1913, she was home ported in Portland and serving in the {{UK-DF|6}}.{{NLJul13|p. 292}}
  
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Cheerful''">
 
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Cheerful''">
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Mark Edward Frederic Kerr|nick=Mark E. F. Kerr|appt=3 March, 1900<ref>Kerr Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 30.</ref>|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Mark Edward Frederic Kerr|nick=Mark E. F. Kerr|appt=3 March, 1900<ref>Kerr Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 30.</ref>|end=4 January, 1901}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Barry Edward Domvile|nick=Barry E. Domvile|appt=16 July, 1901{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|Thursday, July 11, 1901, Issue 36504, p.8}}|end=late 1901|note=for the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1901]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Frederic William Dean|nick=Frederic W. Dean|appt=late 1901{{ToL|Accident to the Salmon|Thursday, Dec 19, 1901; pg. 7; Issue 36642}}|end=|note=in command when {{UK-2Salmon}} was lost}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Colin Kenneth MacLean|nick=Colin K. MacLean|appt=27 June, 1903|end=14 August, 1903}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Colin Kenneth MacLean|nick=Colin K. MacLean|appt=27 June, 1903|end=14 August, 1903}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{SubRN}} in Command|name=Rowland Edward Stokes-Rees|nick=Rowland E. Stokes-Rees|appt=14 July, 1904{{ToL|Appointments for the Naval Manoeuvres|Saturday, Jul 09, 1904; pg. 12; Issue 37442}}|end=|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1904]]}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Richard Forster White|nick=Richard F. White|appt=29 October, 1904<ref>White Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/373.|D7603157}} f. 422.</ref>|end=7 March, 1905<ref>White Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/373.|D7603157}} f. 422.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Richard Forster White|nick=Richard F. White|appt=29 October, 1904<ref>White Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/373.|D7603157}} f. 422.</ref>|end=7 March, 1905<ref>White Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/373.|D7603157}} f. 422.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Mark Goodwin Newton|nick=Mark G. Newton|appt=7 March, 1905{{NLNov05|p. 294}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Mark Goodwin Newton|nick=Mark G. Newton|appt=7 March, 1905{{NLNov05|p. 294}}|end=29 December, 1905}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Arthur Gardiner Muller|nick=Arthur G. Muller|appt=29 December, 1905{{NLMar07|p. 293}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Arthur Gardiner Muller|nick=Arthur G. Muller|appt=29 December, 1905{{NLMar07|p. 293}}|end=14 January, 1908}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Uchtred Farie|nick=James U. Farie|appt=14 January, 1908<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>|end=13 May, 1908<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Uchtred Farie|nick=James U. Farie|appt=14 January, 1908<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>|end=13 May, 1908<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Richard Anthony Aston Plowden|nick=Richard A. A. Plowden|appt=13 May, 1908<ref> Plowden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/64.|D7603571}} f. 64.</ref>{{NLOct08|p. 293}}|end=24 July, 1908<ref> Plowden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/64.|D7603571}} f. 64.</ref>|note=invalided}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Richard Anthony Aston Plowden|nick=Richard A. A. Plowden|appt=13 May, 1908<ref> Plowden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/64.|D7603571}} f. 64.</ref>{{NLOct08|p. 293}}|end=24 July, 1908<ref> Plowden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/64.|D7603571}} f. 64.</ref>|note=invalided}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Randolph Divett|nick=Randolph Divett|appt=24 July, 1908<ref>Divett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/41.|D7603945}} f. ?.</ref>|end=6 August, 1908<ref>Divett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/41.|D7603945}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Uchtred Farie|nick=James U. Farie|appt=6 August, 1908<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>|end=10 September, 1909<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Uchtred Farie|nick=James U. Farie|appt=6 August, 1908<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>|end=10 September, 1909<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=John Coombe Hodgson|nick=John C. Hodgson|appt=10 September, 1909<ref> Hodgson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/124.|D7603631}} f. 124.</ref>{{NLJan10|p. 292}}|end=15 August, 1910<ref> Hodgson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/124.|D7603631}} f. 124.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=John Coombe Hodgson|nick=John C. Hodgson|appt=10 September, 1909<ref> Hodgson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/124.|D7603631}} f. 124.</ref>{{NLJan10|p. 292}}|end=15 August, 1910<ref> Hodgson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/124.|D7603631}} f. 124.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Reginald George Talbot|nick=Reginald G. Talbot|appt=17 August, 1910|end=1910}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Wilfrid Ward Hunt|nick=Wilfrid W. Hunt|appt=8 April, 1911<ref>Hunt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603954}} f. 458.</ref>|end=24 May, 1911<ref>Hunt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603954}} f. 458.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Wilfrid Ward Hunt|nick=Wilfrid W. Hunt|appt=8 April, 1911<ref>Hunt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603954}} f. 458.</ref>|end=24 May, 1911<ref>Hunt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603954}} f. 458.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robert James Buchanan|nick=Robert J. Buchanan|appt=5 March, 1912<ref>Buchanan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/4.|D7603511}} f. 4.</ref>|end=10 April, 1912<ref>Buchanan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/4.|D7603511}} f. 4.</ref>|note=temporary, for special service}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robert James Buchanan|nick=Robert J. Buchanan|appt=5 March, 1912<ref>Buchanan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/4.|D7603511}} f. 4.</ref>|end=10 April, 1912<ref>Buchanan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/4.|D7603511}} f. 4.</ref>|note=temporary, for special service}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Francis Leonard Back|nick=Francis L. Back|appt=10 April, 1912{{NLAug12|p. 292}}|end=25 October, 1912}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Francis Leonard Back|nick=Francis L. Back|appt=10 April, 1912{{NLAug12|p. 292}}|end=25 October, 1912}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robert Makin|nick=Robert Makin|appt=28 January, 1913{{NLJul13|p. 292}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robert Makin|nick=Robert Makin|appt=15 October, 1912<ref>"Naval And Military Intelligence."  ''The Times'' (London, England), Tuesday, Oct 15, 1912; pg. 12; Issue 40030.</ref>|end=11 December, 1913}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Theodore Evelyn Johnstone Bigg|nick=Theodore E. J. Bigg|appt=27 January, 1914<ref>Bigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/9.|D7604603}} f. 10.</ref>{{NLOct15|p. 392''s''}}|end=22 September, 1915<ref>Bigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/9.|D7604603}} f. 10.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Theodore Evelyn Johnstone Bigg|nick=Theodore E. J. Bigg|appt=27 January, 1914<ref>Bigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/9.|D7604603}} f. 10.</ref>{{NLOct15|p. 392''s''}}|end=22 September, 1915<ref>Bigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/9.|D7604603}} f. 10.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Henry Ioan Montagu Lawrence Scott|nick=Henry I. M. L. Scott|appt=22 September, 1915<ref>Scott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|D7604494}}  f. ?.</ref>|end=24 June, 1916<ref>Scott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|D7604494}}  f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Henry Ioan Montagu Lawrence Scott|nick=Henry I. M. L. Scott|appt=22 September, 1915<ref>Scott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|D7604494}}  f. ?.</ref>|end=24 June, 1916<ref>Scott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|D7604494}}  f. ?.</ref>}}

Revision as of 10:35, 1 January 2020

H.M.S. Cheerful (1897)
Pendant Number: P.13 (1914)
D.49 (Sep 1915)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie & Company[2]
Ordered: 1896-97 Programme[3]
Laid down: 7 Sep, 1896[4]
Launched: 14 Jul, 1897[5]
Commissioned: Feb, 1900[6]
Mined: 30 Jun, 1917[7]
Fate: off the Shetlands[8]

H.M.S. Cheerful was one of forty "C" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "30 knotter".

Service

Cheerful arrived at Sheerness with six other destroyers from the North Sea on 1 October, 1901.[9]

In mid-1913, she was home ported in Portland and serving in the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla.[10]

She was lost off the Shetlands[11] while serving with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla, a patrol flotilla.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  8. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  9. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), October 2, 1901, Issue 36575, p.10.
  10. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 292.
  11. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  12. Kerr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 30.
  13. "The Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), Thursday, July 11, 1901, Issue 36504, p.8.
  14. "Accident to the Salmon." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Dec 19, 1901; pg. 7; Issue 36642.
  15. "Appointments for the Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 09, 1904; pg. 12; Issue 37442.
  16. White Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/373. f. 422.
  17. White Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/373. f. 422.
  18. The Navy List. (November, 1905). p. 294.
  19. The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 293.
  20. Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 385.
  21. Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 385.
  22. Plowden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/64. f. 64.
  23. The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 293.
  24. Plowden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/64. f. 64.
  25. Divett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/41. f. ?.
  26. Divett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/41. f. ?.
  27. Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 385.
  28. Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 385.
  29. Hodgson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/124. f. 124.
  30. The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 292.
  31. Hodgson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/124. f. 124.
  32. Hunt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 458.
  33. Hunt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 458.
  34. Buchanan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/4. f. 4.
  35. Buchanan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/4. f. 4.
  36. The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 292.
  37. "Naval And Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Oct 15, 1912; pg. 12; Issue 40030.
  38. Bigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/9. f. 10.
  39. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 392s.
  40. Bigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/9. f. 10.
  41. Scott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/82. f. ?.
  42. Scott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/82. f. ?.
  43. The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 393a.
  44. The Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 392i.

Bibliography


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