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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}} ('''T''')|name=Edmund James Prendergast|nick=Edmund J. Prendergast|appt=26 April, 1905{{NLMar07|p. 349}}|end=16 July, 1907<ref>Prendergast Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602561}} f. 247.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}} ('''T''')|name=Edmund James Prendergast|nick=Edmund J. Prendergast|appt=26 April, 1905{{NLMar07|p. 349}}|end=16 July, 1907<ref>Prendergast Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602561}} f. 247.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}} ('''T''')|name=Frederick Noel Fargus|nick=Frederick N. Fargus|appt=16 July, 1907{{NLJan10|p. 349}}|end=15 January, 1910}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Oliver Swann|nick=Oliver Schwann|appt=15 January, 1910{{NLApr10|p. 349}}|end=26 September, 1910{{INF}}{{NLMar11|p. 349}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}} ('''T''')|name=Edward Morden Bennett|nick=Edward M. Bennett|appt=26 September, 1910{{NLApr11|p. 349}}|end=5 November, 1912|note=this appointment crossed out in his service record, but appears in two Navy Lists}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}} ('''T''')|name=Edward Morden Bennett|nick=Edward M. Bennett|appt=26 September, 1910{{NLApr11|p. 349}}|end=5 November, 1912|note=this appointment crossed out in his service record, but appears in two Navy Lists}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} ('''T''')|name=Arthur Thomas Muir|nick=Arthur T. Muir|appt=5 November, 1912{{NLNov14|p. 362}}|end=11 November, 1914{{HepperLosses|p. 29}}|note=survived her torpedoing and loss|succBy=Vessel Lost}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} ('''T''')|name=Arthur Thomas Muir|nick=Arthur T. Muir|appt=5 November, 1912{{NLNov14|p. 362}}|end=11 November, 1914{{HepperLosses|p. 29}}|note=survived her torpedoing and loss|succBy=Vessel Lost}}

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H.M.S. Niger (1892)
Builder: Naval Construction & Armament Co.[1]
Ordered: Naval Defence Act
Laid down: 17 Sep, 1891[2]
Launched: 17 Dec, 1892[3]
Completed: 25 Apr, 1893[4]
Torpedoed: 11 Nov, 1914[5]
H.M.S. Niger was one of eleven torpedo gunboats of the Alarm class.

Service

Torpedoed off Deal by U 12 on 11 November, 1914,[6] with the loss of fifteen lives.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 89.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 89.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 89.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 89.
  5. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 306.
  6. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 306.
  7. Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. 43.
  8. The Navy List. (April, 1897). p. 243.
  9. The Navy List. (October, 1898). p. 274.
  10. Johnson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/424. f. 506.
  11. The Navy List. (October, 1904). p. 349.
  12. Johnson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/424. f. 506.
  13. The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 349.
  14. Prendergast Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 247.
  15. The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 349.
  16. The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 349.
  17. The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 349.
  18. The Navy List. (November, 1914). p. 362.
  19. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 29.

Bibliography


Alarm Class Torpedo Gunboat
Alarm Antelope Circe Hebe Jaseur
  Jason Leda Niger  
  Onyx Renard Speedy  
<– Redbreast Class Small Fry (UK) Dryad Class –>
<– Sharpshooter Class Torpedo Gunboats (UK) Dryad Class –>