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Revision as of 15:15, 11 January 2017

H.M.S. Spitfire (1912)
Pendant Number: H.41 (1914)
H.1A (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Swan Hunter[2]
Launched: 23 Dec, 1912[3]
Completed: Jun, 1913[4]
Sold: May, 1921[5]

H.M.S. Spitfire was one of twenty destroyers of the Acasta class.

There was also an 27 knotter of 1895 named Spitfire.

Service

Spitfire was ordered to join the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla upon commissioning.[6]

Under command of Clarence W. E. Trelawny, Spitfire was one of seven Acasta class destroyers of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla that saw action during the Scarborough Raid on 16 December 1914, acting as one of three destroyers in the second division.[7]

At the Battle of Jutland, she operated with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Clarence W. E. Trelawny.[8]

On the night of 12 September 1916 under the command of Lieutenant Humphrey Maurice Robson, Spitfire was credited with sinking an enemy submarine by ramming, though no known U-boat loss seems to coincide with this date.[9]

She was reduced to a C. & M. Party at Devonport on 15 October, 1919.[10]

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. 377.
  7. ↑ Naval Operations. Volume II. pp. 26-30.
  8. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
  9. ↑ Robson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/55. f. 411.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 866.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 398d-k.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 398d-k.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 398.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 398.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 910.

Bibliography


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