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Revision as of 09:28, 21 April 2014

H.M.S. Hermes (1898)
Pendant Number: N/A[1]
Builder: Fairfield[2]
Laid down: 30 Apr, 1897[3]
Launched: 7 Apr, 1898[4]
Commissioned: 5 Oct, 1899[5]
Torpedoed: 31 Oct, 1914[6]
Fate: by U 27 off Ruylingen Bank[7]

Service

In 1910, Hermes was the best gunnery ship of the three tested at the Cape of Good Hope Station, scoring 75.66 – well ahead of the average 46.930.[8]

Recommissioned on 7 May, 1913 and attached to the Air Service with a number of officers borne for the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 79.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 79.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 79.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 79.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 79.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  8. The National Archives. ADM 1/8328, p. 4.
  9. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 324.
  10. The Navy List, Corrected to the 18th January, 1900. p. 257.
  11. Kingsford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 749.
  12. Dumas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 500.
  13. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  14. Vivian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 63.

See Also

Footnotes

Bibliography


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