H.M.S. Racoon (1910)

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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]
Wrecked: 9 Jan, 1918[5]

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

Career

It 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.[6]

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. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 39 of 19 June, 1914.

Bibliography


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