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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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Revision as of 21:04, 3 November 2015

H.M.S. Forester (1911)
Pendant Number: H.39 (1914)
H.34 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: J. S. White[2]
Ordered: 1910-11 Programme[3]
Launched: 1 Jun, 1911[4]
Completed: Jan, 1912[5]
Sold: 4 Nov, 1921[6]

H.M.S. Forester was one of twenty-nine destroyers of the Acheron class.

Radio

She was one of 18 Acheron class destroyers fitted with W/T in 1912, becoming one of 123 destroyers so far fitted with Destroyer Sets.[7]

Service

In mid-1913, she was with the First Destroyer Flotilla.[8]

Forester reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport 15 October, 1919.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  7. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. Wireless Appendix, p. 6.
  8. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 316.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 775.
  10. The Navy List. (November, 1914). p. 316.
  11. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 394f.
  12. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 394m.
  13. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 393v.
  14. The Navy List. (September, 1919). p. 795.

Bibliography


Acheron Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
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  Lizard Phoenix Ferret Forester  
Yarrow Specials
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Thornycroft Specials
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Firedrake/Yarrow Specials
  Firedrake Lurcher Oak  
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  Huon Swan Torrens  
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