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Revision as of 16:26, 27 May 2014

H.M.S. Shark (1912)
Pendant Number: H.04 (1914)[1]
Builder: Swan Hunter[2]
Launched: 30 Jul, 1912[3]
Sunk: 31 May, 1916[4]
Fate: in Battle of Jutland

H.M.S. Shark was one of twenty destroyers of the Acasta class.

She was lost at the Battle of Jutland. There was a later destroyer named Shark, as well.

Service

In mid-1913, she was operating with the Third Destroyer Flotilla.[5]

At the Battle of Jutland, she was lost in night action while operating with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla under the command of Commander Loftus William Jones.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  5. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 375.
  6. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 373.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 380a. The Navy List consistently says 1912, but I think it is 1914, as he first appears in the October 1914 edition.

Bibliography


Acasta Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Acasta Achates Ambuscade Christopher Cockatrice
Contest Shark Sparrowhawk Spitfire Lynx
  Midge Owl  
Thornycroft Specials
Hardy Paragon Porpoise Unity Victor
Other Specials
  Ardent Fortune Garland  
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