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Revision as of 11:22, 15 July 2013

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]
Wrecked: 9 Jan, 1918[5]

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.[6]

In mid-1914 i was decided, 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.[7]

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. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 73-74.
  6. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 365.
  7. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 39 of 19 June, 1914.
  8. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 365.

Bibliography


Beagle Class Destroyer
Beagle Bulldog Foxhound Pincher Grasshopper
Mosquito Scorpion Scourge Racoon Renard
  Wolverine Rattlesnake Nautilus  
  Savage Basilisk Harpy  
<– Tribal Class Destroyers (UK) Acorn Class –>