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Revision as of 10:29, 19 May 2014

H.M.S. Hawke (1891)
Pendant Number: A9 (1914)[1]
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: 17 Jun, 1889[3]
Launched: 11 Mar, 1891[4]
Commissioned: 16 May, 1893[5]
Torpedoed: 15 Oct, 1914[6]
Fate: by U 9 in North Sea[7]

H.M.S. Hawke was one of nine protected cruisers of the Edgar class completed between 1893 and 1896, and the only one lost in the war.

Service

From at least mid-1913 through August 1914, she was with the Training Squadron in Queenstown.[8][9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 38.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 38.
  8. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 323.
  9. ↑ The Navy List (August, 1914), p. 322b.
  10. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 4 May, 1893. Issue 33942, col E, p. 6.
  11. ↑ Hamilton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 577.
  12. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  13. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  14. ↑ Warrender Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1384.
  15. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 28 June, 1905. Issue 37745, col F, p. 12.
  17. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  18. ↑ Wake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 125.
  19. ↑ Hill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 454.
  20. ↑ Hill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 454.
  21. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  22. ↑ Blunt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 109.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1914). p. 327.

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).

See Also


Edgar Class First Class Protected Cruiser
Crescent Edgar Endymion Gibraltar Grafton
  Hawke Royal Arthur St. George Theseus  
<– Blake Class Major Cruisers (UK) Powerful Class –>
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