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H.M.S. Racoon (1910)
Pendant Number: H.A7 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird[2]
Ordered: 1908-09 Programme[3]
Launched: 15 Feb, 1910[4]
Completed: Oct, 1910[5]
Wrecked: 9 Jan, 1918[6]

H.M.S. Racoon was one of 16 destroyers of the Beagle class.

Service

In mid-1913 she was active with the Third Destroyer Flotilla.[7]

In mid-1914 it was decided that she, along with two of her sisters while they were apparently on Mediterranean service, was not to have a platform fitted abaft the 4-in gun.[8]

On 8 March, 1915, Racoon was damaged by an underwater shell-burst when she and several other destroyers went to the aid of the mined battleship Ocean.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 60.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 73-74.
  3. March. British Destroyers. p. 101.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 73-74.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 73-74.
  7. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 365.
  8. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 39 of 19 June, 1914.
  9. Smith. Hard Lying. pp. 77-8.
  10. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 376a.
  11. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 397h.
  12. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 397f.
  13. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 397g.
  14. Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. pp. 446-7.

Bibliography


Beagle Class Destroyer
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