H.M.S. Griffon (1896)

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H.M.S. Griffon (1896)
Pendant Number: D.39 (1914)
D.81 (Sep 1915)
D.45 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Laird[2]
Ordered: 1895-96 Programme[3]
Laid down: 7 Mar, 1896[4]
Launched: 21 Nov, 1896[5]
Commissioned: Nov, 1897[6]
Broken up: 1920[7]

H.M.S. Griffon was one of twenty-four destroyers of the "B" class — a "30 knotter".

Service

In mid-1913 she was with the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla, a patrol flotilla.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  7. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  8. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 321.
  9. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 322.

Bibliography


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