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{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Plucky'' (1870)|cat=Gunboat
|fatedate=1928{{Conways1860|p. 111}}
|chain=Small Fry,Gunboats
|name=Plucky
|builder=[[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]]{{CN}}
|launch=13 Jul, 1870{{NMI|16 July 1870, p. 5}}
|nat=UK
|type=flatiron gunboat
|fate=Sold
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'''H.M.S. ''Plucky''''' ('''H.M.S. ''Banterer''''' after June, 1915) was a prototype flatiron gunboat built for the [[Royal Navy]]. 

==Construction & Service==
''Plucky'' was the first iron vessel built at [[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]].{{NMI|16 July 1870, p. 5}}  She was a minor improvement on the preceding prototype, {{UK-1Staunch}}, in that she was thirteen tons heavier, which permitted her to have finer ends.  Still, the design was notably stubby.{{NMI|8 Dec. 1870, p. 12}}

The three Devonport-based gunboats {{UK-1Scourge}}, ''Plucky'' and {{UK-2Bulldog}} were among the ships invited to participate in the Queen's naval Jubilee at Portsmouth in 1887.{{NMI|11 May 1887; p. 9}}

''Plucky'' was renamed '''H.M.S. ''Banterer''''' in June, 1915.  A new destroyer took the name {{UK-Plucky}} in mid-1916.

''Banterer'' paid off at Devonport 13 December 1918.{{NLFeb29|p. 216}}

==Captains==

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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Abraham Hamilton Lindesay|nick=Abraham H. Lindesay|appt=7 July, 1887<ref>Lindesay Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39/39.|}} f. 794.</ref>|end=14 August, 1887<ref>Lindesay Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39/39.|}} f. 794.</ref>|note=for Jubilee Review}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=John Ernest Troyte Harper|nick=John E. T. Harper|appt=22 February, 1906|end=15 November, 1906<ref>Harper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 507.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=George Parish Ross|nick=George P. Ross|appt=15 November, 1906<ref>Ross Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 46.</ref>|end=4 June, 1907<ref>Ross Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 46.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Oliver Elles Leggett|nick=Oliver E. Leggett|appt=4 June, 1907{{NMI|13 July 1907, p. 8}}|end=16 February, 1909|note=and as first and navigating officer in ''Dryad''}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=George Desborough Ward|nick=George D. Ward|appt=10 February, 1909{{NMI|8 Feb. 1909, p. 7}}|end=4 January, 1910|note=and as first and navigating officer in ''Dryad''}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}} ('''N''')|name=Henry Evans Freke Aylmer|nick=Henry E. F. Aylmer|appt=4 January, 1910|end=1 August, 1911}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=John Walsh Carrington|nick=John W. Carrington|appt=1 August, 1911{{NMI|11 July 1911, p. 15}}|end=19 February, 1912}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} ('''N''')|name=James Gordon Fraser|nick=James G. Fraser|appt=13 August, 1912<ref>Fraser Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47/7.|D7603714}}  f. 211.</ref>{{NMI|9 Aug. 1912, p. 8}}|end=11 December, 1912<ref>Fraser Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47/7.|D7603714}}  f. 211.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Alfred Headley Norman|nick=Alfred H. Norman|appt=11 December, 1912{{NMI|16 Dec. 1912, p. 12}}|end=10 March, 1914}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} ('''N''')|name=Alfred Fletcher Coplestone-Boughey|nick=Alfred F. Coplestone-Boughey|appt=10 March, 1914<ref>Coplestone-Boughey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47/100.|}} f. 304.</ref>|end=July, 1914<ref>Coplestone-Boughey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47/100.|}} f. 304.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=George Leslie Harold Dean|nick=George L. H. Dean|appt=8 April, 1916<ref>Dean Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/56/68.|}} f. 68.</ref>{{NLOct16|p. 392''i''}}|end=24 February, 1918<ref>Dean Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/56/68.|}} f. 68.</ref>|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Banterer''}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=John Wilson|nick=John Wilson|appt=19 February, 1918<ref>Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/82/1375.|C14636952}} f. 278.</ref>|end=27 January, 1919<ref>Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/82/1375.|C14636952}} f. 278.</ref>|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Banterer''}}
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==See Also==
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Plucky_(1870)}}
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==Footnotes==
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