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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frank Finnis|nick=Frank Finnis|appt=18 July, 1894<ref>Finnis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 457.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frank Finnis|nick=Frank Finnis|appt=18 July, 1894<ref>Finnis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 457.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cecil Burney, First Baronet|nick=Cecil Burney|appt=13 August, 1900<ref>Burney Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 84/180.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cecil Burney, First Baronet|nick=Cecil Burney|appt=13 August, 1900<ref>Burney Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 84/180.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Herbert Moubray|nick=Edward H. Moubray|appt=13 June, 1903<ref>Moubray Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/88.}}  f. 100.</ref>|end=16 July, 1905<ref>Moubray Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/88.}}  f. 100.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Michael Henry Hodges|nick=Michael H. Hodges|appt=17 July, 1905<ref>Hodges Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 471.</ref>|end=8 August, 1908<ref>Hodges Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 471.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Michael Henry Hodges|nick=Michael H. Hodges|appt=17 July, 1905<ref>Hodges Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 471.</ref>|end=8 August, 1908<ref>Hodges Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 471.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CaptRN}}|name=Gerald Vivian Cuff Knox|nick=Gerald V. C. Knox|appt=2 April, 1912{{NLDec16|p. 397''v''}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CaptRN}}|name=Gerald Vivian Cuff Knox|nick=Gerald V. C. Knox|appt=2 April, 1912{{NLDec16|p. 397''v''}}}}

Revision as of 15:47, 10 March 2015

H.M.S. Sappho (1891)
Pendant Number: P.41 (1914)
P.A1 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Salmuda, Poplar[2]
Laid down: 21 Oct, 1889[3]
Launched: 9 May, 1891[4]
Commissioned: Feb, 1893[5]
Sold: 1921[6]

H.M.S. Sappho was one of twenty-one Apollo class second-class cruisers completed in the early to mid 1890s.

Service

She recommissioned at Portsmouth on 2 April, 1912 under Commander Knox for "Particular Service with First Fleet".[7][8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Harold Christian may also have held this command at some point.[Fact Check]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 39.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  3. ↑ Friedman. British Cruisers of the Victorian Era. p. 344.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  5. ↑ Friedman. British Cruisers of the Victorian Era. p. 344.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 371.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 372.
  9. ↑ Finnis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 457.
  10. ↑ Burney Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 84/180.
  11. ↑ Moubray Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/88. f. 100.
  12. ↑ Moubray Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/88. f. 100.
  13. ↑ Hodges Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 471.
  14. ↑ Hodges Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 471.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 397v.

Bibliography


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