H.M.S. Peterel (1899)

H.M.S. Peterel (1899)
Pendant Number:	P.74 (1914) D.88 (Sep 1915) D.68 (Jan 1918) H.54 (Sep 1918)
Builder:	Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Ordered:	1897-98 Programme
Laid down:	29 Jul, 1898
Launched:	30 Mar, 1899
Commissioned:	Jul, 1900
Broken up:	1919

H.M.S. Peterel was one of twenty-four "B" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "30 knotter".

Broken up in 1919, her name was eventually taken by a river gunboat launched in 1927.

Service

Peterel participated in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1901 soon after completion.

In late 1905, she was one of eight destroyers in the First Division of the Channel Fleet's Destroyer Flotilla. By mid-1906, this formation would be dubbed the First Destroyer Flotilla.

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

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

By April 1912, she was attached to with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla — a patrol flotilla. She remained with them until at least mid-1913.

When war broke out, Peterel was attached to the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla, a patrol flotilla in Home and Atlantic Waters. In July 1917 she moved to the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla under the Rear-Admiral commanding the East Coast of England. She served there until the end of the war, being sent to the Nore for deactivation around February 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Trevylyan D. W. Napier, 6 October, 1900 – 14 October, 1901  (including Annual Manoeuvres of 1901?)
• Commander Brian H. F. Barttelot, 14 October, 1901 – 14 February, 1902
• Commander Roger J. B. Keyes, 21 July, 1903  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1903)
• Lieutenant in Command Osmond J. Prentis, 13 February, 1904 – 19 April, 1904
• Lieutenant & Commander The Hon. Arthur Stopford, 14 July, 1904  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1904)
• Lieutenant in Command Osmond J. Prentis, 13 September, 1904 – 1 November, 1904
• Lieutenant & Commander Arthur Bromley, 1 November, 1904 – 4 October, 1906^[Inference]
• Lieutenant & Commander George P. Leith, 4 October, 1906 – 29 October, 1907
• Lieutenant-Commander Mark G. Newton, 14 January, 1908 – 22 October, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander Maurice C. Bomford, 23 October, 1909 – 10 January, 1910
• Lieutenant-Commander Hugh D. Colville, 10 January, 1910 – 19 October, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Clarence W. E. Trelawny, 19 October, 1910 – 21 March, 1912
• Lieutenant & Commander Salisbury H. Simpson, March, 1912 – 6 May, 1913
• Lieutenant & Commander Walter O. H. Lambert, c. late January, 1914 – February, 1914^[Inference]
• Lieutenant & Commander Salisbury H. Simpson, c. late February, 1914 – 17 March, 1914  (temporarily, and for command of some reduced T.B.Ds.)
• Lieutenant in Command George F. Hole, 17 March, 1914 – 19 February, 1915  (suffering from neurasthenia)
• Lieutenant in Command Joseph H. L. Yorke, 19 February, 1915 – 16 December, 1915
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Alphonse M. Tulloch, 16 December, 1915 – 16 January, 1918
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Norman W. M. Kemp, 13 December, 1917 – 27 February, 1919

See Also

• Wikipedia