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Ten destroyers under the lead of [[H.M.S. Champion (1915)|''Champion'']] screened the [[First Battle Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|First Battle Cruiser Squadron]].  Eight of these vessels delivered a torpedo attack against the enemy battle cruisers at about 4.15pm, after gun and torpedo battle with enemy destroyers who were similarly tasked.
Ten destroyers under the lead of [[H.M.S. Champion (1915)|''Champion'']] screened the [[First Battle Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|First Battle Cruiser Squadron]].  Eight of these vessels delivered a torpedo attack against the enemy battle cruisers at about 4.15pm, after gun and torpedo battle with enemy destroyers who were similarly tasked.


==After Jutland, 1916==
==1 August, 1918==
 
While operating with the [[Battlecruiser Force]], the flotilla was comprised as follows.<ref>''Battlecruiser Force Signal Orders'', ADM 137/2135</ref>
 
* Flagship {{UK-Champion|f=t}}
* Half-flotilla leaders {{UK-Valentine}} and {{UK-Valkyrie}}
* 1st Division
** {{UK-Vimiera}}
** {{UK-Vega}}
** {{UK-Vectis}}
** {{UK-Violent}}
* 2nd Division
** {{UK-Vendetta}}
** {{UK-Verulam}}
** {{UK-Wakeful}}
** {{UK-Westminster}}
* 4th Division
** {{UK-Verdun}}
** {{UK-Viceroy}}
** {{UK-Vesper}}
** {{UK-Venetia}}
* 5th Division
** {{UK-Wolfhound}}
** {{UK-Ursa}}
** {{UK-Ursula}}
** {{UK-Urchin}}
* 6th Division
** {{UK-Umpire}}
** {{UK-Ulster}}
** {{UK-Tower}}
** {{UK-Tristam}}
* 7th Division
** {{UK-Vidette}}
** {{UK-Winchelsea}}
** {{UK-Westcott}}
* Spares
** {{UK-Windsor}}
** {{UK-Whitley}}
** {{UK-Woolston}}
** {{UK-Walpole}}
** {{UK-Paladin}}
** {{UK-Patrician}}
** {{UK-Osiris}}
 


==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 20:16, 4 September 2012

The Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla was a formation of destroyers of the Royal Navy. The flotilla changed composition often as ships were damaged, retired or transferred.

In 1916, it was comprised of "M" class destroyers whose sixty-six 21-in Mark II torpedo test runs in the first half of that year proved 77% probable to endanger the enemy.[1]

Outbreak of War, August, 1914

Battle of Jutland, June 1916

Ten destroyers under the lead of Champion screened the First Battle Cruiser Squadron. Eight of these vessels delivered a torpedo attack against the enemy battle cruisers at about 4.15pm, after gun and torpedo battle with enemy destroyers who were similarly tasked.

1 August, 1918

While operating with the Battlecruiser Force, the flotilla was comprised as follows.[2]


Footnotes

  1. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916, p. 87.
  2. ↑ Battlecruiser Force Signal Orders, ADM 137/2135

Bibliography

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

See Also



British Destroyer Flotillas
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth | Tenth
Eleventh | Twelfth | Thirteenth | Fourteenth | Fifteenth | Sixteenth | Seventeenth | Eighteenth | Nineteenth
Twentieth | Twenty-first
Local Defence Flotillas
Clyde | Devonport | Devonport & Falmouth | Falmouth | Firth of Forth | Gibraltar
Liverpool | Mersey | Newhaven | Nore | North Channel | Milford & Pembroke | Pembroke
Portland | Portsmouth | Queenstown

[[Category:Royal Navy {{{1}}}]][[Category:{{{1}}}]]

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