H.M.S. Cynthia (1898)

H.M.S. Cynthia (1898)
Pendant Number:	N.09 (1914) D.39 (Sep 1915) D.23 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Ordered:	1896-97
Laid down:	16 Jul, 1896
Launched:	8 Jan, 1898
Commissioned:	Jun, 1899
Broken up:	1920

H.M.S. Cynthia was one of the Royal Navy's eleven "D" class destroyers.

Service

In late 1906, Proserpine collided with Cynthia and Commander Bruce was told to be more careful in future following a Court of Enquiry. It is not immediately clear how he was involved in this misadventure, as he had left command of Cynthia some years earlier.

Cynthia was one of twenty-seven T.B.Ds. of the Portsmouth Flotilla to participate in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1909.

In March 1910, she was part of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla, which was in turn part of Part of the Third Division, Home Fleet.

Throughout the Great War, she was part of the Nore Local Defence Flotilla.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant Murray MacG. Lockhart, 9 March, 1900 – 27 April, 1900
• Lieutenant in Command Charles P. Beaty-Pownall, 1900 – 25 September, 1900
• Lieutenant & Commander Reginald A. Norton, 25 September, 1900 – 5 November, 1900
• Lieutenant & Commander Ernest S. Carey, 27 December, 1900 – 19 March, 1901
• Lieutenant & Commander James W. G. Innes, 11 March, 1901 – August, 1901  (including Annual Manoeuvres of 1901?)
• Lieutenant Alan C. Bruce, mid 1902  (for passage to Malta)
• Lieutenant in Command Arthur K. Macrorie, c. November, 1902 – 25 February, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Norman H. Carter, 24 January, 1905 – April, 1905
• Lieutenant in Command Reginald St. P. Parry, 24 July, 1905 – September, 1905  (manoeuvres)
• Lieutenant & Commander Henry R. Heathcote, 14 September, 1905 – 11 June, 1907  (superseded for being "deaf and slow")
• Lieutenant & Commander Reginald S. Goff, 11 June, 1907 – 10 February, 1910  (in command?)
• Lieutenant & Commander Robert L. Jermain, 10 February, 1910 – 2 August, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Thomas G. Carter, 2 August, 1910 – 15 August, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Maurice B. R. Blackwood, 15 August, 1910 – 26 August, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Frederick C. Corbyn, 26 August, 1910 – 9 December, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander William S. Hargreaves, 9 December, 1910 – 10 October, 1911
• Lieutenant & Commander Frank G. Terry, 11 October, 1911 – 31 October, 1911
• Lieutenant & Commander Frederic W. Clarkson, 31 October, 1911 – February, 1913
• Lieutenant in Command Christopher J. F. Eddis, 14 August, 1913 – 4 August, 1915
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command George ff. H. Lloyd, 4 August, 1915 – 18 April, 1916
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Dick V. Sutton, 18 April, 1916 – October, 1918
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Ben Moss, 21 October, 1918 – 10 May, 1919  (demobilised on arrival in Australia)

See Also

• Wikipedia