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On 2 February, 1917, ''Radiant'' collided with a drifter while under the command of Lt. Cdr. [[Geoffrey Stewart Fleetwood Nash]].<ref>Nash Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/143.|}} f. 547.</ref>
 
On 2 February, 1917, ''Radiant'' collided with a drifter while under the command of Lt. Cdr. [[Geoffrey Stewart Fleetwood Nash]].<ref>Nash Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/143.|}} f. 547.</ref>
  
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''Radiant'' was transferred to the Royal Siamese Navy as ''Phra Ruang'' in September 1920.  She survives to this day as a hulk.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-class_destroyer_(1916) Wikipedia.]</ref>
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''Radiant'' was transferred to the Royal Siamese Navy as ''Phra Ruang'' in September 1920.  She may have still survived in the year 2000 as a hulk.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-class_destroyer_(1916) Wikipedia.]</ref>
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==

Latest revision as of 08:34, 14 August 2020

H.M.S. Radiant (1916)
Pendant Number: F.59 (Jan 1917)
F.56 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: John I. Thornycroft & Company[2]
Ordered: July 1915 (6th Order)[3][4]
Launched: 25 Nov, 1916[5]
Completed: Feb, 1917[6]
Sold: 21 Jun, 1920[7]
Fate: resold to Siam
became Phra Ruang[8]

H.M.S. Radiant was one of 62 destroyers of the "R" class.

Service

On 2 February, 1917, Radiant collided with a drifter while under the command of Lt. Cdr. Geoffrey Stewart Fleetwood Nash.[9]

Radiant was transferred to the Royal Siamese Navy as Phra Ruang in September 1920. She may have still survived in the year 2000 as a hulk.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  4. ↑ March. British Destroyers. p. 184.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  6. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 310.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
  8. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
  9. ↑ Nash Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/143. f. 547.
  10. ↑ Wikipedia.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 397g.
  12. ↑ Nash Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/143. f. 547.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (June, 1919). p. 889.
  14. ↑ Birkett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 518.
  15. ↑ Birkett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 518.

Bibliography


"R" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Radstock Raider Romola Rowena Restless
Rigorous Rocket Rob Roy Redgauntlet Redoubt
Recruit Sturgeon Sceptre Salmon Sylph
Sarpedon Sable Setter Sorceress Satyr
Sharpshooter Simoom Skate Starfish Stork
Skilful Springbok Tancred Tarpon Telemachus
Tempest Tetrarch Tenacious Thisbe Thruster
  Tormentor Tornado Torrent Torrid  
Thornycroft Specials
Rosalind Radiant Retriever Taurus Teazer
Yarrow Specials
Sabrina Strongbow Surprise Sybille Truculent
  Tyrant Ulleswater  
Modified "R" Class
Ulster Undine Tower Trenchant Tristram
  Tirade Ursula Ulysses  
  Umpire Urchin Ursa  
<– Talisman Class Destroyers (UK) "V" Class –>
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