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|launch=18 Aug, 1901{{DittColl|p. 105}}
 
|launch=18 Aug, 1901{{DittColl|p. 105}}
|builder=[[Yarrow]]{{DittColl|p. 105}}
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|builder=[[Yarrow & Company]]{{DittColl|p. 105}}
 
|fate=Sold
 
|fate=Sold
 
|pend=N.6A (Nov 1919){{DittColl|p. 105}}
 
|pend=N.6A (Nov 1919){{DittColl|p. 105}}
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Moorhen''''' was one of two [[Teal Class Gunboat (1901)|''Teal'' Class river gunboats]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Moorhen''''' was one of two [[Teal Class Gunboat (1901)|''Teal'' Class river gunboats]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].  She would serve for thirty-two years in the river waterways of China.
  
 
==Service==
 
==Service==
Re-commissioned on 17 October, 1918.{{NLApr25|p. 256}}
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She re-commissioned on 17 October, 1918 and seemingly remained in continuous service until at least early 1933.{{NLJan33|p. 255}}
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She was replaced in service by the new gunboat [[H.M.S. Sandpiper (1933)|''Sandpiper'']] which was sent to China in sections for reassembly, and commissioned in August, 1933.<ref>"Royal Navy."  ''The Times'' (London, England), Thursday, Nov 02, 1933; pg. 7; Issue 46591.</ref>
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Godfrey George Webster|nick=Godfrey G. Webster|appt=18 February, 1902{{NLMay03|p. 282}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Godfrey George Webster|nick=Godfrey G. Webster|appt=18 February, 1902{{NLMay03|p. 282}}|end=30 January, 1904}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Frederick Burnaby Noble|nick=Frederick B. Noble|appt=26 January, 1904<ref>Noble Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/248.|D7603034}} f. 282.</ref>{{NLOct04|p. 346.  25 January given here}}|end=mid 1906{{INF}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Frederick Burnaby Noble|nick=Frederick B. Noble|appt=26 January, 1904<ref>Noble Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/248.|D7603034}} f. 282.</ref>{{NLOct04|p. 346.  25 January given here}}|end=mid 1906{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Robert Ernest Vaughan|nick=Robert E. Vaughan|appt=8 May, 1906{{NLMar07|p. 347}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Robert Ernest Vaughan|nick=Robert E. Vaughan|appt=8 May, 1906{{NLMar07|p. 347}}|end=16 January, 1908|note=invalided w/ dysentery}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Colpoys Cleland Walcott|nick=Colpoys C. Walcott|appt=3 March, 1908|end=19 April, 1909}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}}|name=George Piercy Leith|nick=George P. Leith|appt=19 April, 1909<ref>Leith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/437.|D7576629}} f. 439.</ref>{{NLJan10|p. 347}}|end=10 October, 1912<ref>Leith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/437.|D7576629}} f. 439.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}}|name=George Piercy Leith|nick=George P. Leith|appt=19 April, 1909<ref>Leith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/437.|D7576629}} f. 439.</ref>{{NLJan10|p. 347}}|end=10 October, 1912<ref>Leith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/437.|D7576629}} f. 439.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Robert Nash Marshall|nick=Robert N. Marshall|appt=13 August, 1918{{NLDec18|p. 848}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}} ('''I,''' ''Gr.'')|name=Geoffrey Stewart Fleetwood Nash|nick=Geoffrey S. F. Nash|appt=10 October, 1912{{NavAppts|12 Oct. 1912, p. 4}}<ref>Nash Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/143.|}} f. 547.</ref>|end=December, 1912<ref>Nash Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/143.|}} f. 547.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Percival Clive Wickham Manwaring|nick=Percival C. W. Manwaring|appt=8 May, 1919|end=19 June, 1921}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Alan Dixon|nick=Alan Dixon|appt=December, 1912<ref>Dixon Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/45/252.|}} f. ?.</ref>|end=13 August, 1914<ref>Dixon Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/45/252.|}} f. ?.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Robert Nash Marshall|nick=Robert N. Marshall|appt=13 August, 1918<ref>Marshall Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/57/7.|}} f. 7.</ref>{{NLDec18|p. 848}}|end=8 May, 1919<ref>Marshall Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/57/7.|}} f. 7.</ref>|note=invalided}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Percival Clive Wickham Manwaring|nick=Percival C. W. Manwaring|appt=8 May, 1919<ref>Manwaring Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/54/92.|}} f. 93.</ref>|end=19 June, 1921<ref>Manwaring Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/54/92.|}} f. 93.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Victor Percy Alleyne|nick=Victor P. Alleyne|appt=14 January, 1921{{NLJan23|p. 786}}|end=January, 1923{{NLJan23|p. 786}}{{NLJul24|p. 256}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Victor Percy Alleyne|nick=Victor P. Alleyne|appt=14 January, 1921{{NLJan23|p. 786}}|end=January, 1923{{NLJan23|p. 786}}{{NLJul24|p. 256}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Francis James Harold Dawson|nick=Francis J. H. Dawson|appt=27 January, 1923<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/248.|D7605003}} f. 262.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 256}}|end=March, 1925<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/248.|D7605003}} f. 262.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Francis James Harold Dawson|nick=Francis J. H. Dawson|appt=27 January, 1923<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/248.|D7605003}} f. 262.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 256}}|end=March, 1925<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/248.|D7605003}} f. 262.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Aubrey Basil Fanshawe|nick=Aubrey B. Fanshawe|appt=7 February, 1925{{NLApr25|p. 256}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Aubrey Basil Fanshawe|nick=Aubrey B. Fanshawe|appt=7 February, 1925{{NLFeb26|p. 256}}<ref>Fanshawe Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/56/40.|}} f. 41.</ref>|end=March, 1927<ref>Fanshawe Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/56/40.|}} f. 41.</ref>|note=in command upon her commissioning}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Cameron St. Clair Ingham|nick=Cameron St. C. Ingham|appt=4 February, 1927{{NLJul27|p. 256}}|end=February, 1928<ref>Ingham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/53/167.|}} f. 166.</ref>|note=relieved for drink-related gaffes}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Cyril Young Clairmonte Keays|nick=Cyril Y. C. Keays|appt=22 February, 1928<ref>Keays Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/108.|}} f. 108.</ref>|end=April, 1928<ref>Keays Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/108.|}} f. 108.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Tom Barnholdt Vivian Thomas|nick=Tom B. V. Thomas|appt=c. mid 1928<ref>Thomas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/124.|}} f. 124.</ref>|end=27 November, 1928<ref>Thomas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/124.|}} f. 124.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Roderick Cosmo Gordon|nick=Roderick C. Gordon|appt=26 November, 1928<ref>Gordon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/148/476.|}} f. ?.</ref>|end=March, 1929<ref>Gordon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/148/476.|}} f. ?.</ref>|note=temporary}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Walter Wilmot Sitwell|nick=Walter W. Sitwell|appt=c. February, 1929<ref>Sitwell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/193.|}}  f. 193.</ref>|end=April, 1931<ref>Sitwell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/193.|}}  f. 193.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robert William Wainewright|nick=Robert W. Wainewright|appt=18 February, 1931{{NLJan33|p. 255}}|end=August, 1933{{INF}}|succBy=Ship Decommissioned}}
 
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
 
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
  

Latest revision as of 21:00, 18 November 2023

H.M.S. Moorhen (1901)
Pendant Number: N.6A (Nov 1919)[1]
Builder: Yarrow & Company[2]
Launched: 18 Aug, 1901[3]
Sold: Aug, 1933[4]
H.M.S. Moorhen was one of two Teal Class river gunboats completed for the Royal Navy. She would serve for thirty-two years in the river waterways of China.

Service

She re-commissioned on 17 October, 1918 and seemingly remained in continuous service until at least early 1933.[5]

She was replaced in service by the new gunboat Sandpiper which was sent to China in sections for reassembly, and commissioned in August, 1933.[6]

Captains

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Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 105.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 105.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 105.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 105.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 255.
  6. "Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Nov 02, 1933; pg. 7; Issue 46591.
  7. The Navy List. (May, 1903). p. 282.
  8. Noble Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/248. f. 282.
  9. The Navy List. (October, 1904). p. 346. 25 January given here.
  10. The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 347.
  11. Leith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/437. f. 439.
  12. The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 347.
  13. Leith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/437. f. 439.
  14. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 12 Oct. 1912, p. 4.
  15. Nash Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/143. f. 547.
  16. Nash Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/143. f. 547.
  17. Dixon Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/45/252. f. ?.
  18. Dixon Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/45/252. f. ?.
  19. Marshall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/57/7. f. 7.
  20. The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 848.
  21. Marshall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/57/7. f. 7.
  22. Manwaring Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/92. f. 93.
  23. Manwaring Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/92. f. 93.
  24. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 786.
  25. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 786.
  26. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 256.
  27. Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/248. f. 262.
  28. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 256.
  29. Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/248. f. 262.
  30. The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 256.
  31. Fanshawe Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/56/40. f. 41.
  32. Fanshawe Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/56/40. f. 41.
  33. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 256.
  34. Ingham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/167. f. 166.
  35. Keays Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/108. f. 108.
  36. Keays Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/108. f. 108.
  37. Thomas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/124. f. 124.
  38. Thomas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/124. f. 124.
  39. Gordon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/148/476. f. ?.
  40. Gordon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/148/476. f. ?.
  41. Sitwell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/193. f. 193.
  42. Sitwell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/193. f. 193.
  43. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 255.


Teal Class River Gunboat
  Teal Moorhen