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'''H.M.S. ''Rocket''''' was one of forty-two [["A" Class Destroyer (1894)|"A" class destroyers]] built for the [[Royal Navy]] &mdash; a "27 knotter".
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'''H.M.S. ''Rocket''''' was one of thirty-six [[27 Knotter]]s, a broad meta-class of early [[Torpedo Boat Destroyer]]s built for the [[Royal Navy]] in the 1890s.
  
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Like many of the "A" class, she was broken up before the war.
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Like most of the 27 knotters, she was broken up before the war.
  
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==Service==
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==Construction & Service==
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''Rocket'' replaced {{UK-2Sparrowhawk}}, which had been damaged in harbour accident, as one of two T.B.Ds. to leave Devonport for the [[West Indies Station]] in August, 1897. She and {{UK-Quail}} left with the {{UK-Charybdis|f=t}} acting as escort on 25 August.{{NMI|23 Aug. 1897, p. 5}}{{NMI|25 Aug. 1897, p. 5}}
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She was one of twenty-seven T.B.Ds. of the Portsmouth Flotilla to participate in the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1909]].{{ToL|The Naval Mobilization|Thursday, June 17, 1909, Issue 38988, p.9}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Frederick Kenrick Colquhoun Gibbons|nick=Frederick K. C. Gibbons|appt=24 July, 1895{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|July 19, 1895, Issue 34633, p.14}}|end=|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1895]]}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Ernest Edward Lacy|nick=Ernest E. Lacy|appt=14 January, 1896{{NLMar96|p. 256}}|end=23 May, 1896}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Ernest Edward Lacy|nick=Ernest E. Lacy|appt=14 January, 1896{{NLMar96|p. 256}}|end=23 May, 1896}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Fawcet Wray|nick=Fawcet Wray|appt=15 June, 1897<ref>"The Diamond Jubilee" ''The Times'' (London, England), Wednesday, Jun 16, 1897; pg. 8; Issue 35231.</ref>|end=|note=for Naval Review at Spithead}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Fawcet Wray|nick=Fawcet Wray|appt=15 June, 1897<ref>"The Diamond Jubilee" ''The Times'' (London, England), Wednesday, Jun 16, 1897; pg. 8; Issue 35231.</ref>|end=c. August, 1897|note=for Jubilee Naval Review and the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1897]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Frederic William Dean|nick=Frederic W. Dean|appt=18 August, 1897<ref>Dean Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/39.|}} f. 41.</ref>|end=September, 1897{{NMI|4 Sept. 1897, p. 8}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Evan Campbell Bunbury|nick=Evan C. Bunbury|appt=17 February, 1903{{NLMay03|p. 300}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Evan Campbell Bunbury|nick=Evan C. Bunbury|appt=17 February, 1903{{NLMay03|p. 300}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Osmond James Prentis|nick=Osmond J. Prentis|appt=19 April, 1904<ref>Prentis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/118.|D7602904}} f. 130.</ref>|end=20 May, 1904<ref>Prentis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/118.|D7602904}} f. 130.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Osmond James Prentis|nick=Osmond J. Prentis|appt=19 April, 1904<ref>Prentis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/118.|D7602904}} f. 130.</ref>|end=20 May, 1904<ref>Prentis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/118.|D7602904}} f. 130.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Michael Barne|nick=Michael Barne|appt=3 January, 1905|end=1 April, 1905}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Michael Barne|nick=Michael Barne|appt=3 January, 1905{{NMI|Saturday, December 24, 1904, Issue 37586, p.4}}|end=1 April, 1905}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Reginald Gay Copleston|nick=Reginald G. Copleston|appt=1 April, 1905<ref>Copleston Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/99.|D7602885}} f. 110.</ref>|end=20 October, 1905<ref>Copleston Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/99.|D7602885}} f. 110.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Reginald Gay Copleston|nick=Reginald G. Copleston|appt=1 April, 1905<ref>Copleston Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/99.|D7602885}} f. 110.</ref>|end=20 October, 1905<ref>Copleston Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/99.|D7602885}} f. 110.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Henry Francis Donhoff Jelf|nick=Henry F. D. Jelf|appt=20 October, 1905{{NLNov05|p. 368}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Henry Francis Donhoff Jelf|nick=Henry F. D. Jelf|appt=20 October, 1905<ref>Jelf Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/44/389.|}} f. 395.</ref>{{NLNov05|p. 368}}|end=1 January, 1906<ref>Jelf Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/44/389.|}} f. 395.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Percy Crabtree|nick=Percy Crabtree|appt=1 January, 1906|end=8 February, 1906}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Percy Crabtree|nick=Percy Crabtree|appt=1 January, 1906|end=8 February, 1906}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Arthur Temple Blackwood|nick=Arthur T. Blackwood|appt=20 February, 1906|end=before 27 April, 1906}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Arthur Temple Blackwood|nick=Arthur T. Blackwood|appt=20 February, 1906|end=before 27 April, 1906}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} ('''I, ''Ru.''''')|name=Edward Alexander Dimsdale Masterman|nick=Edward A. D. Masterman|appt=16 February, 1911{{NLApr11|p. 368}}|end=12 April, 1911|note=and for Whitehead Experiments}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} ('''I, ''Ru.''''')|name=Edward Alexander Dimsdale Masterman|nick=Edward A. D. Masterman|appt=16 February, 1911{{NLApr11|p. 368}}|end=12 April, 1911|note=and for Whitehead Experiments}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Forster Delafield Arnold-Forster|nick=Forster D. Arnold-Forster|appt=12 April, 1911<ref>Arnold-Forster Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/166.|D7602952}} f. 186.</ref>|end=16 June, 1911<ref>Arnold-Forster Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/166.|D7602952}} f. 186.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Forster Delafield Arnold-Forster|nick=Forster D. Arnold-Forster|appt=12 April, 1911<ref>Arnold-Forster Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/166.|D7602952}} f. 186.</ref>|end=16 June, 1911<ref>Arnold-Forster Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/166.|D7602952}} f. 186.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Sydney Lionel Kekewich Lawford|nick=Sydney L. K. Lawford|appt=16 June, 1911<ref>Lawford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/190.|}}  f. 191.</ref>|end=25 July, 1911<ref>Lawford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/190.|}}  f. 191.</ref>|note=temporary}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Forster Delafield Arnold-Forster|nick=Forster D. Arnold-Forster|appt=25 July, 1911<ref>Arnold-Forster Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/166.|D7602952}} f. 186.</ref>|end=1 August, 1911<ref>Arnold-Forster Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/166.|D7602952}} f. 186.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Forster Delafield Arnold-Forster|nick=Forster D. Arnold-Forster|appt=25 July, 1911<ref>Arnold-Forster Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/166.|D7602952}} f. 186.</ref>|end=1 August, 1911<ref>Arnold-Forster Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/166.|D7602952}} f. 186.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William Leslie Elder|nick=William L. Elder|appt=9 August, 1911|end=31 October, 1911}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William Leslie Elder|nick=William L. Elder|appt=9 August, 1911|end=31 October, 1911}}

Latest revision as of 16:02, 28 September 2021

H.M.S. Rocket (1894)
Builder: J. & G. Thomson[1]
Ordered: 1893-94[2]
Laid down: 14 Feb, 1894[3]
Launched: 14 Aug, 1894[4]
Commissioned: Jul, 1895[5]
Broken up: 1912[6]

H.M.S. Rocket was one of thirty-six 27 Knotters, a broad meta-class of early Torpedo Boat Destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s.

Like most of the 27 knotters, she was broken up before the war.

Construction & Service

Rocket replaced Sparrowhawk, which had been damaged in harbour accident, as one of two T.B.Ds. to leave Devonport for the West Indies Station in August, 1897. She and Quail left with the second class protected cruiser Charybdis acting as escort on 25 August.[7][8]

She was one of twenty-seven T.B.Ds. of the Portsmouth Flotilla to participate in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1909.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 92.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  7. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 23 Aug. 1897, p. 5.
  8. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 25 Aug. 1897, p. 5.
  9. ↑ "The Naval Mobilization." The Times (London, England), Thursday, June 17, 1909, Issue 38988, p.9.
  10. ↑ "The Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), July 19, 1895, Issue 34633, p.14.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 256.
  12. ↑ "The Diamond Jubilee" The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jun 16, 1897; pg. 8; Issue 35231.
  13. ↑ Dean Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/39. f. 41.
  14. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 4 Sept. 1897, p. 8.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1903). p. 300.
  16. ↑ Prentis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/118. f. 130.
  17. ↑ Prentis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/118. f. 130.
  18. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Saturday, December 24, 1904, Issue 37586, p.4.
  19. ↑ Copleston Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/99. f. 110.
  20. ↑ Copleston Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/99. f. 110.
  21. ↑ Jelf Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/389. f. 395.
  22. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1905). p. 368.
  23. ↑ Jelf Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/389. f. 395.
  24. ↑ The Navy List. (June, 1906). p. 368.
  25. ↑ Donaldson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 230.
  26. ↑ Donaldson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 230.
  27. ↑ Bigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/9. f. 10.
  28. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 368.
  29. ↑ Bigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/9. f. 10.
  30. ↑ Henniker-Heaton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/442. f. 508.
  31. ↑ Henniker-Heaton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/442. f. 508.
  32. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 368.
  33. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1909). p. 368.
  34. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 368.
  35. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 368.
  36. ↑ Arnold-Forster Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/166. f. 186.
  37. ↑ Arnold-Forster Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/166. f. 186.
  38. ↑ Lawford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/190. f. 191.
  39. ↑ Lawford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/190. f. 191.
  40. ↑ Arnold-Forster Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/166. f. 186.
  41. ↑ Arnold-Forster Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/166. f. 186.

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