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==Service==
==Service==
In mid-1913, she was operating with the {{UK-DF|3}}.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 375.</ref>
In mid-1913, she was operating with the {{UK-DF|3}}.{{NLJul13|p. 375}}


At the [[Battle of Jutland]], she was lost in night action while operating with the {{UK-DF|4}} under the command of {{CommRN}} [[Loftus William Jones]].{{UKJutlandOD|pp. 34, 44}}
At the [[Battle of Jutland]], she was lost in night action while operating with the {{UK-DF|4}} under the command of {{CommRN}} [[Loftus William Jones]].{{UKJutlandOD|pp. 34, 44}}
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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Revision as of 16:44, 30 September 2014

H.M.S. Shark (1912)
Pendant Number: H.04 (1914)[1]
Builder: Swan Hunter[2]
Launched: 30 Jul, 1912[3]
Completed: Apr, 1913[4]
Sunk: 31 May, 1916[5]
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.[6]

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.[7]

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. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 307.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 375.
  7. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1914). p. 380a.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 380a. The Navy List consistently say 1912, but I think it is 1914, as he first appears with Shark in the November 1914 edition.

Bibliography


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