H.M.S. Shark (1912)

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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.

Bibliography


Acasta Class Destroyer
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