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|builder=[[Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company]], Govan{{Conways1860|p. 68}}
 
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==Service==
 
==Service==
In mid-1913, she was serving with Third Fleet in Portsmouth.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913).  p. 300.</ref>
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In mid-1913, she was serving with Third Fleet in Portsmouth.{{NLJul13|p. 300}}
  
 
In late 1920, she was being used to train stokers in Portsmouth.{{NLJan21|p. 759}}
 
In late 1920, she was being used to train stokers in Portsmouth.{{NLJan21|p. 759}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
Dates of appointment given:
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
*{{CaptRN}} [[Harry Seawell Frank Niblett|Harry S. F. Niblett]], February, 1899.{{MackieRNW}}
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<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Diadem''">
*Captain [[Henry Leah]], November, 1900.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Walter Hodgson Bevan Graham|nick=Walter H. B. Graham|appt=19 July, 1898{{NLOct98|p. 241}}|end=23 February, 1899<ref>Graham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38/561.}} f. 547.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Frederic Edward Errington Brock|Frederic E. E. Brock]] (Man&oelig;uvres), 21 July, 1903.<ref>Brock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}}  f. 170.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Harry Seawell Frank Niblett|nick=Harry S. F. Niblett|appt=15 February, 1899{{NLApr00|p. 243}}<ref>Niblett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 956.</ref>|ass=23 February, 1899<ref>Graham Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/38/561.}} f. 547.</ref>|end=9 November, 1900<ref>Niblett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 956.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Frederick St. George Rich|Frederick St. G. Rich]], November, 1903.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Leah|nick=Henry Leah|appt=9 November, 1900{{NLMar01|p. 246}}|end=4 March, 1902|note=including [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1901]]?}}
*Captain [[Edmund Radcliffe Pears|Edmund F. Pears]], 3 January, 1905.<ref>Pears Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 86.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederic Edward Errington Brock|nick=Frederic E. E. Brock|appt=21 July, 1903<ref>Brock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}}  f. 170.</ref><ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence".  ''The Times''.  Thursday, 16 July, 1903.  Issue '''37134''', col D, p. 8.</ref>|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1903]]|end=8 September, 1903<ref>Brock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.|D7590035}} f. 220.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Herbert Whitmore Savory|Herbert W. Savory]], February, 1905.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederick St. George Rich|nick=Frederick St. G. Rich|appt=24 November, 1903{{NLJan04|p. 301}}|end=29 March, 1904<ref>Rich Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 1110.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Charles Henry Umfreville|Charles F. Umfreville]], November, 1906.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edmund Radcliffe Pears|nick=Edmund R. Pears|appt=3 January, 1905<ref>Pears Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 86.</ref>|end=23 February, 1905<ref>Pears Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 86.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Owen Francis Gillett|Owen F. Gillett]], 1907.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Herbert Whitmore Savory|nick=Herbert W. Savory|appt=23 February, 1905{{NLDec05|p. 300}}<ref>Savory Service Record.   {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 34.</ref>|end=13 January, 1907<ref>Savory Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 34.</ref>|note=on passage from 11 December, 1906}}
*{{CommRN}} [[William G. A. Kennedy]], 11 March, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 759}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Henry Umfreville|nick=Charles H. Umfreville|appt=6 November, 1906{{NLMar07|p. 300}}|end=17 April, 1907}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Owen Francis Gillett|nick=Owen F. Gillett|appt=17 April, 1907<ref>Gillett Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 123.</ref>|end=16 November, 1907<ref>Gillett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 123.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Constantine Henry Hughes-Onslow|nick=Constantine H. Hughes-Onslow|appt=17 June, 1909|end=|note=manoeuvres}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Foster Grant-Dalton|nick=John F. Grant-Dalton|appt=24 July, 1909<ref>Grant-Dalton Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/43/328.|D7602655}} f. 362.</ref>|end=5 October, 1909<ref>Grant-Dalton Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/43/328.|D7602655}} f. 362.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William Drummond Church|nick=William D. Church|appt=11 October, 1909<ref>Church Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/420.|D7602344}} f. 502.</ref>{{NLApr10|p. 300}}|end=25 June, 1910<ref>Church Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/420.|D7602344}} f. 502.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe|nick=Sidney R. Drury-Lowe|appt=24 June, 1910<ref>Drury-Lowe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 214.</ref>|end=before 30 July, 1910<ref>Drury-Lowe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 214.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Cecil Hardy|nick=George C. Hardy|appt=6 September, 1910{{NMI|6 Sept. 1910, p. 4}}|end=10 January, 1911}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Harry Mervyn Kemmis Betty|nick=Harry M. K. Betty|appt=20 February, 1911{{NLJul11|p. 300}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John William Leopold McClintock|nick=John W. L. McClintock|appt=11 July, 1911{{NLJan12|p. 300}}<ref>McClintock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 459.</ref>|end=9 May, 1912<ref>McClintock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 459.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Lewis Soltan Kirkness|nick=James L. S. Kirkness|appt=22 October, 1912<ref>Kirkness Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/356.|}} f. 360.</ref>|end=18 December, 1912<ref>Kirkness Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/356.|}} f. 360.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Pipon Beaty-Pownall|nick=Charles P. Beaty-Pownall|appt=1 January, 1913{{NLMar13|p. 300}}|note=promoted {{CaptRN}} 30 June, 1913{{NLAug13|p. 300}}|end=5 August, 1913<ref>Beaty-Pownall Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 235.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Octavius Harold Daniel|nick=Octavius H. Daniel|appt=5 August, 1913{{NLSep13|p. 300}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Bennett Weston Young|nick=George B. W. Young|appt=31 December, 1914<ref>Young Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/320.|D7602647}}  f. 352.</ref>|end=14 January, 1915<ref>Young Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/320.|D7602647}}  f. 352.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} (retired)|name=Charles Mure|nick=Charles Mure|appt=20 January, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 393''j''}}|end=1915}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} (emergency)|name=Lionel Herbert Hordern|nick=Lionel H. Hordern|appt=21 December, 1915{{NLOct16|p. 393''o''}}|end=15 September, 1916}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Ernest George Houssemayne Du Boulay|nick=Ernest G. H. Du Boulay|appt=14 February, 1919|end=11 March, 1919}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William George Ainslie Kennedy|nick=William G. A. Kennedy|appt=11 March, 1919{{NLJan21|p. 759}}|end=February, 1921}}
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</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
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Latest revision as of 18:15, 1 December 2021

H.M.S. Diadem (1896)
Pendant Number: P.20 (1914)
N.50 (Sep 1915)
N.32 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan[2]
Ordered: 1895-96 Programme[3]
Laid down: 23 Jan, 1896[4]
Launched: 21 Oct, 1896[5]
Commissioned: 19 Jul, 1898[6]
Sold: 9 May, 1921[7]
Fate: to Ward, Morecambe[8]

H.M.S. Diadem was one of eight Diadem class cruisers completed between 1898 and 1903.

Service

In mid-1913, she was serving with Third Fleet in Portsmouth.[9]

In late 1920, she was being used to train stokers in Portsmouth.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 40.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 68.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 68.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 68.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 68.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 68.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 40.
  8. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 40.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 300.
  10. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 759.
  11. The Navy List. (October, 1898). p. 241.
  12. Graham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/561. f. 547.
  13. The Navy List. (April, 1900). p. 243.
  14. Niblett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 956.
  15. Niblett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 956.
  16. The Navy List. (March, 1901). p. 246.
  17. Brock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 170.
  18. "Naval & Military Intelligence". The Times. Thursday, 16 July, 1903. Issue 37134, col D, p. 8.
  19. Brock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 220.
  20. The Navy List. (January, 1904). p. 301.
  21. Rich Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1110.
  22. Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 86.
  23. Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 86.
  24. The Monthly Navy List. (December, 1905). p. 300.
  25. Savory Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 34.
  26. Savory Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 34.
  27. The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 300.
  28. Gillett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 123.
  29. Gillett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 123.
  30. Grant-Dalton Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/43/328. f. 362.
  31. Grant-Dalton Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/43/328. f. 362.
  32. Church Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/420. f. 502.
  33. The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 300.
  34. Church Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/420. f. 502.
  35. Drury-Lowe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 214.
  36. Drury-Lowe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 214.
  37. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 6 Sept. 1910, p. 4.
  38. The Navy List. (July, 1911). p. 300.
  39. The Navy List. (January, 1912). p. 300.
  40. McClintock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 459.
  41. McClintock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 459.
  42. Kirkness Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/356. f. 360.
  43. Kirkness Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/356. f. 360.
  44. The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 300.
  45. Beaty-Pownall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 235.
  46. The Navy List. (August, 1913). p. 300.
  47. The Navy List. (September, 1913). p. 300.
  48. Young Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/320. f. 352.
  49. Young Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/320. f. 352.
  50. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 393j.
  51. The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 393o.
  52. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 759.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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