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==Alterations==
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==Service==
 
As part of the Channel Fleet, ''Hampshire'' started a refit in Portsmouth in August 1908, after Battle Practice.<ref>Report from Charles Beresford dated 10 April 1908 in ''Naval Policy - Strategy - Tactics: Miscellaneous papers from Private Office received by record office'' at {{TNA|ADM 116/942}}, unnumbered folio halfway within series.</ref>
 
As part of the Channel Fleet, ''Hampshire'' started a refit in Portsmouth in August 1908, after Battle Practice.<ref>Report from Charles Beresford dated 10 April 1908 in ''Naval Policy - Strategy - Tactics: Miscellaneous papers from Private Office received by record office'' at {{TNA|ADM 116/942}}, unnumbered folio halfway within series.</ref>
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She completed to full crew at Portsmouth on 5 December, 1911.  In mid-1913, she was on the China Station.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 321-2.</ref>
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
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*Captain [[Stanhope Hawke]], December 1909.{{MackieRNW}}
 
*Captain [[Stanhope Hawke]], December 1909.{{MackieRNW}}
 
*Captain [[Cuthbert Edward Hunter]], December 1911.{{MackieRNW}}
 
*Captain [[Cuthbert Edward Hunter]], December 1911.{{MackieRNW}}
*Captain [[Marcus Rowley Hill]], January 1913.{{MackieRNW}}
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*Captain [[Marcus Rowley Hill]], 17 January, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 321.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Henry William Grant]], January 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 322a.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Henry William Grant]], January 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 322a.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Herbert John Savill|Herbert J. Savill]], 14 May, 1915<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1915).  p. 394''l''.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Herbert John Savill|Herbert J. Savill]], 14 May, 1915<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1915).  p. 394''l''.</ref>

Revision as of 12:15, 14 July 2013

H.M.S. Hampshire (1903)
Pendant Number: 50 (Feb 1915)[1]
Builder: Armstrong[2]
Ordered: 1901-02 Programme[3]
Laid down: 1 Sep, 1902[4]
Launched: 24 Sep, 1903[5]
Commissioned: 15 Jul, 1905[6]
Mined: 5 Jun, 1916[7]
Fate: off the Orkneys[8]

Service

As part of the Channel Fleet, Hampshire started a refit in Portsmouth in August 1908, after Battle Practice.[9]

She completed to full crew at Portsmouth on 5 December, 1911. In mid-1913, she was on the China Station.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 43.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 71.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 71.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 71.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 71.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 71.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 43.
  8. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 43.
  9. Report from Charles Beresford dated 10 April 1908 in Naval Policy - Strategy - Tactics: Miscellaneous papers from Private Office received by record office at The National Archives. ADM 116/942, unnumbered folio halfway within series.
  10. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 321-2.
  11. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  12. The Navy List (October, 1908). p. 323.
  13. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  14. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  15. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 321.
  16. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 322a.
  17. The Navy List (October, 1915). p. 394l.

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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