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|launch=4 Sep, 1902{{Conways1860|p. 70}}
 
|launch=4 Sep, 1902{{Conways1860|p. 70}}
|builder=[[Fairfield]]{{Conways1860|p. 70}}
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|builder=[[Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company]]{{Conways1860|p. 70}}
 
|laid=14 Feb, 1901{{Conways1860|p. 70}}
 
|laid=14 Feb, 1901{{Conways1860|p. 70}}
 
|fate=Sold
 
|fate=Sold
 
|pend=9C (1914)<br>55 (Jan 1918)<br>N.28 (Apr 1918)<ref>Dittmar; Colledge.  ''British Warships: 1914-1919''.  p. 42.</ref>
 
|pend=9C (1914)<br>55 (Jan 1918)<br>N.28 (Apr 1918)<ref>Dittmar; Colledge.  ''British Warships: 1914-1919''.  p. 42.</ref>
 
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'''H.M.S. ''Donegal''''' was one of ten [[Armoured Cruiser|armoured cruisers]] of the [[Monmouth Class Cruiser (1901)|''Monmouth'' class]] completed between 1903 and 1904.
  
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==Service==
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She recommissioned at Devonport on 23 May 1911.{{NLJul13|p. 302}}
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She arrived at Scapa on 25 October, 1915, from Halifax.<ref>Jellicoe Papers.  British Library.  Add MS 49000.  f. 269.</ref>
  
One of ten [[Armoured Cruiser|armoured cruisers]] of the [[Monmouth Class Cruiser (1901)|''Monmouth'' Class]] completed between 1903 and 1904.
 
 
==Alterations==
 
==Alterations==
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Donegal''">
*{{CaptRN}} [[Frederic Edward Errington Brock]], November 1903.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederic Edward Errington Brock|nick=Frederic E. E. Brock|appt=5 November, 1903<ref>Brock Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/19.|D7590035}} f. 220.</ref>|end=21 May, 1905<ref>Brock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.|D7590035}} f. 220.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
*Captain [[Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler]], November 1905.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Thomas Stuart|nick=Arthur T. Stuart|appt=22 May, 1905<ref>Stuart Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.|D7578986}} f. 1237.</ref>|end=c. 24 October, 1905<ref>Stuart Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.|D7578986}} f. 1237.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Cyril Everard Tower]], June 1906.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler|nick=Herbert A. S. Fyler|appt=31 October, 1905<ref>Fyler Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42/155.|D7602098}}  f. 182.</ref>|end=1 February, 1906<ref>Fyler Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/155.|D7602098}}  f. 182.</ref>}}
*Captain The Honourable [[George Arthur Hardinge|George A. Hardinge]], 1 February, 1908.<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 302.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=William John Grogan|nick=William J. Grogan|appt=1 February, 1906|end=9 April, 1906}}
*Captain [[Thomas Dawson Lees Sheppard]], March 1909.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Henry Hodgson Moore|nick=Charles H. H. Moore|appt=10 April, 1906<ref>Moore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 689.</ref>|end=2 May, 1906<ref>Moore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 689.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Lionel Halsey]], April 1911.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cyril Everard Tower|nick=Cyril E. Tower|appt=23 June, 1906<ref>Tower Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 32.</ref>|end=1 February, 1908<ref>Tower Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 32.</ref>}}
*Captain [[George Holmes Borrett]], September 1912.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Arthur Hardinge|nick=The Hon. George A. Hardinge|appt=1 February, 1908<ref>Hardinge Service Record{{TNA|ADM 196/42/187.|D7602126}} f. 219.</ref>{{NLOct08|p. 302}}|end=9 March, 1909<ref>Hardinge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/187.|D7602126}} f. 219.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Cunningham Robert de Clare Foot]], August 1913.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Thomas Dawson Lees Sheppard|nick=Thomas D. L. Sheppard|appt=9 March, 1909{{NLJan10|p. 302}}<ref>Sheppard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 393.</ref>|end=11 April, 1911<ref>Sheppard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 393.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Charles Douglas Carpendale]], September 1914.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Lionel Halsey|nick=Lionel Halsey|appt=11 April, 1911<ref>Halsey Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7576543}}  f. 243.</ref>{{NLApr11|p. 302}}|end=20 September, 1912<ref>Halsey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7576543}}  f. 243.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Warren Hastings D'Oyly]], August 1915.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=George Holmes Borrett|nick=George H. Borrett|appt=20 September, 1912{{NLJul13|p. 302}}|end=25 August, 1913<ref>Borrett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 505.</ref>}}
*Captain [[Edward Hilary Rymer]], March 1918.{{MackieRNW}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cunningham Robert de Clare Foot|nick=Cunningham R. de C. Foot|appt=25 August, 1913<ref>Foot Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 218.</ref>|end=10 January, 1914<ref>Foot Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 218.</ref>|note=temporary}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Maurice Henry Horatio Nelson|nick=Maurice H. H. Nelson|appt=7 April, 1914|end=17 September, 1914}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles Douglas Carpendale|nick=Charles D. Carpendale|appt=September, 1914{{NLDec14|p. 305}}|end=7 August, 1915<ref>Carpendale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 443.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Warren Hastings D'Oyly|nick=Warren H. D'Oyly|appt=7 August, 1915<ref>D'Oyly Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42/412.|D8112193}} f. 493.</ref>{{NLAug17|p. 393''d''}}|end=late 1917<ref>D'Oyly Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/412.|D8112193}} f. 493.</ref>|note=sick for 10 weeks from mid-March 1916 and then eye trouble from late September, 1917}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Andrew Fountaine|nick=Charles A. Fountaine|appt=21 March, 1916|end=28 May, 1916|note=temporary}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Leonard Laurence Peel Willan|nick=Leonard L. P. Willan|appt=29 August, 1917<ref>Willan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/322.|D7576615}} f. 322.</ref>|end=28 February, 1918<ref>Willan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/322.|D7576615}} f. 322.</ref>|note=had been executive officer since 17 September, 1914}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edward Hilary Rymer|nick=Edward H. Rymer|appt=11 March, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 779}}|end=19 February, 1919}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Commander|name=Arthur Alured Mellin|nick=Arthur A. Mellin|appt=13 February, 1919{{NavAppts|20 Feb. 1919, p. 14}}|end=30 September, 1919}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Commander|name=John Alexander Ingles|nick=John A. Ingles|appt=18 October, 1919{{NavAppts|18 Oct. 1919, p. 18}}|end=1919}}
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</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
{{WP|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Donegal_(1902)}}
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* [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-05-HMS_Donegal.htm Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net]
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Donegal_(1902)}}
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{{refend}}
  
 
==Footnotes==
 
==Footnotes==

Latest revision as of 10:44, 20 May 2023

H.M.S. Donegal (1902)
Pendant Number: 9C (1914)
55 (Jan 1918)
N.28 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Ordered: 1900-01 Programme[3]
Laid down: 14 Feb, 1901[4]
Launched: 4 Sep, 1902[5]
Commissioned: 5 Nov, 1903[6]
Sold: 1 Jul, 1920[7]
Fate: to Castle; resold[8]

H.M.S. Donegal was one of ten armoured cruisers of the Monmouth class completed between 1903 and 1904.

Service

She recommissioned at Devonport on 23 May 1911.[9]

She arrived at Scapa on 25 October, 1915, from Halifax.[10]

Alterations

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships: 1914-1919. p. 42.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 70.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 70.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 70.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 70.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 70.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  8. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 302.
  10. Jellicoe Papers. British Library. Add MS 49000. f. 269.
  11. Brock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 220.
  12. Brock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 220.
  13. Stuart Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1237.
  14. Stuart Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1237.
  15. Fyler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/155. f. 182.
  16. Fyler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/155. f. 182.
  17. Moore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 689.
  18. Moore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 689.
  19. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 32.
  20. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 32.
  21. Hardinge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/187. f. 219.
  22. The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 302.
  23. Hardinge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/187. f. 219.
  24. The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 302.
  25. Sheppard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 393.
  26. Sheppard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 393.
  27. Halsey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 243.
  28. The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 302.
  29. Halsey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 243.
  30. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 302.
  31. Borrett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 505.
  32. Foot Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 218.
  33. Foot Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 218.
  34. The Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 305.
  35. Carpendale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 443.
  36. D'Oyly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/412. f. 493.
  37. The Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 393d.
  38. D'Oyly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/412. f. 493.
  39. Willan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/322. f. 322.
  40. Willan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/322. f. 322.
  41. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 779.
  42. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 20 Feb. 1919, p. 14.
  43. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 18 Oct. 1919, p. 18.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
  • 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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