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While working as a high speed minesweeper in the Dardanelles area, Commander [[Osmond J. Prentis]] was killed by a shell which struck her bridge.{{HardLying|p. 113}}
 
While working as a high speed minesweeper in the Dardanelles area, Commander [[Osmond J. Prentis]] was killed by a shell which struck her bridge.{{HardLying|p. 113}}
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At Suvla Bay on 6-7 August, 1915, ''Wolverine'' worked with five other ''Beagles'' and {{UK-Arno}} to tow troop barges in.{{HardLying|p. 113}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==

Revision as of 15:46, 1 January 2014

H.M.S. Wolverine (1910)
Pendant Number: H.18 (1917)[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird[2]
Ordered: 1908-09 Programme[3]
Launched: 15 Jan, 1910[4]
Collision: 12 Dec, 1917[5]
Fate: w/sloop Rosemary[6]

H.M.S. Wolverine was one of sixteen destroyers of the Beagle class.

Service

In mid-1913, active with the Third Destroyer Flotilla.[7]

While working as a high speed minesweeper in the Dardanelles area, Commander Osmond J. Prentis was killed by a shell which struck her bridge.[8]

At Suvla Bay on 6-7 August, 1915, Wolverine worked with five other Beagles and Arno to tow troop barges in.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 61.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 73-74.
  3. ↑ March. British Destroyers. p. 101.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 73-74.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 61.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 61.
  7. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 397a.
  8. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 113.
  9. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 113.
  10. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 397a.
  11. ↑ The Navy List (January, 1915). p. 397a.

Bibliography


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