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|pend=N.49 (1914)<br>D.38 (Sep 1915)<br>D.22 (Jan 1918){{DittColl|p. 58}}
 
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'''H.M.S. ''Cygnet''''' was one of eleven destroyers of the [["D" Class Destroyer (1896)|"D" class]] &mdash; one of the two-funnelled "30 knotters".
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'''H.M.S. ''Cygnet''''' was one of the [[Royal Navy]]'s eleven [["D" Class Destroyer (1896)|"D" class destroyers]].
 
==Service==
 
==Service==
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In mid-1913, she was serving in The Nore.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 298.</ref>
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In late 1899, she was part of the Medway Destroyer/Instructional Flotilla.{{NMI|Monday, Dec 11, 1899; pg. 9; Issue 36009}}
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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}}
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In mid-1913, she was serving in The Nore.{{NLJul13|p. 298}}
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Lt. [[Orrell Bake]] was appointed in command in June, 1914.  The ship would suffer three collisions under his oversight.  In 1914 he collided with S.S. ''Glenbrook'' during a mooring operation.  Luckily, no serious damage resulted.  However, on 10 December 1914, ''Cygnet'' was damaged on entering Felixstowe Dock.  This elicited a caution for Bake.<ref>Bake Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/237.|D7576685}}  f. 288.</ref>
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In March 1915, ''Cygnet'' collided with ''Brighton Queen''. [[Orrell Bake]] was finally superseded in command of the destroyer as a result of this third misadventure and sent to work in a cruiser.<ref>Bake Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/237.|D7576685}}  f. 288.</ref>
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{{LCommRNR}} [[Frederick John Thompson]] replaced Bake, and commanded the ship until November 1916.
  
 
==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. ''Cygnet''">
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* {{LieutRN}} & Commander [[Claude Lindesay Bate|Claude L. Bate]], 16 July, 1912.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 298.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Horace Lambert Alexander Hood|nick=The Hon. Horace L. A. Hood|appt=28 November, 1899<ref>Hood Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 114.</ref>|end=3 January, 1900<ref>Hood Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 114.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
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* {{LieutRN}} & Commander [[Roy Bacchus]], 16 December, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 300a.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Cecil Spencer Hickley|nick=Cecil S. Hickley|appt=3 February, 1900{{NLFeb00|p. 241}}|end=}}
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* Lieutenant in Command [[Orrell Blake]], 5 June, 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (January, 1915), p. 300.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Robert Gordon Douglas Dewar|nick=Robert G. D. Dewar|appt=January, 1902<ref>Dewar Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/463.|D7602781}}  f. 517.</ref>|end=1902<ref>Dewar Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/463.|D7602781}}  f. 517.</ref>}}
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* Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command [[George Bernard Bray|George B. Bray]], 20 November, 1916.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1918), p. 773.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=George James Todd|nick=George J. Todd|appt=c. May, 1902<ref>"Naval & Military intelligence" ''The Times'' (London). Friday, 14 March 1902. (36715), p. 9.</ref>{{INF}}|end=20 June, 1903<ref>Todd Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/7.|D7602795}} f. 7.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=George James Todd|nick=George J. Todd|appt=6 October, 1903<ref>Todd Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/7.|D7602795}} f. 7.</ref>|end=2 July, 1904<ref>Todd Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/7.|D7602795}} f. 7.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=William Francis Benwell|nick=William F. Benwell|appt=1 April, 1905<ref>Benwell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/200.|D7602538}}  f. 215.</ref>|end=April, 1905<ref>Benwell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/200.|D7602538}}  f. 215.</ref>|note=and for command of torpedo craft in reserve}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Vernon Frederick Tuson|nick=Vernon F. Tuson|appt=May, 1905{{NLJun06|p. 299}}|end=6 November, 1906}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Frederick Burnaby Noble|nick=Frederick B. Noble|appt=6 November, 1906<ref>Noble Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/248.|D7603034}} f. 282.</ref>{{NLMar07|p. 298}}|end=14 January, 1908<ref>Noble Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/248.|D7603034}} f. 282.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Benjamin Wingate Barrow|nick=Benjamin W. Barrow|appt=2 January, 1908<ref>Barrow Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/444.}} f. 511.</ref>|ass=14 January, 1908<ref>Noble Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/248.|D7603034}} f. 282.</ref>|end=9 June, 1908<ref>Barrow Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/444.}} f. 511.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Charles Cabry Dix|nick=Charles C. Dix|appt=9 June, 1908{{NLJan10|p. 298}}|end=22 February, 1910}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Stuart Elton Holder|nick=Stuart E. Holder|appt=22 February, 1910|end=August, 1910<ref>Rest of date not legible in his Service Record.</ref>|note=sick with lumbago}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Edward Howell Cater|nick=Edward H. Cater|appt=15 August, 1910{{NLApr11|p. 298}}|end=16 May, 1911<ref>Cater Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/17.|}} f. 9.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Ralph Wilmot Wilkinson|nick=Ralph W. Wilkinson|appt=c. mid 1911<ref>Wilkinson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/89.|D7604188}}  f. 47.</ref>{{NLMar07|p. 400}}|end=September, 1911<ref>Wilkinson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/89.|D7604188}}  f. 47.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Claude Lindesay Bate|nick=Claude L. Bate|appt=16 July, 1912<ref>Bate Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/180.|D7604084}} f. 585.</ref>{{NLNov13|p. 300''a''}}|end=16 December, 1913<ref>Bate Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/180.|D7604084}} f. 585.</ref>|note=loaned to {{UK-Euryalus}} briefly from 10 July, 1913}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Roy Bacchus|nick=Roy Bacchus|appt=16 December, 1913<ref>Bacchus Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/59.|D7603963}} f. 462.</ref>{{NLApr14|p. 300''a''}}|end=10 June, 1914<ref>Bacchus Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/59.|D7603963}} f. 462.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Orrell Bake|nick=Orrell Bake|appt=5 June, 1914<ref>Bake Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/237.|D7576685}}  f. 288.</ref>{{NLApr15|p. 393''h''}}|ass=10 June, 1914<ref>Bacchus Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/59.|D7603963}} f. 462.</ref>|end=c. 15 April, 1915<ref>Bake Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/237.|D7576685}}  f. 288.</ref>|note=superseded in command following collision with ''Brighton Queen''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Charles Edward Wilson|nick=Charles E. Wilson|appt=28 March, 1915|end=3 September, 1915}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRNR}}|name=Frederick John Thompson|nick=Frederick J. Thompson|appt=3 September, 1915<ref>Thompson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/82/1788.|}}  f. 360.</ref>{{NLDec16|p. 393''m''}}|end=20 November, 1916<ref>Thompson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/82/1788.|}}  f. 360.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=George Bernard Bray|nick=George B. Bray|appt=20 November, 1916{{NLFeb19|p. 773}}|end=15 June, 1919<ref>Bray Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/56/114.|}} f. 114.</ref>|note=may have only assumed command on 23 April, 1917|succBy=Vessel Decommissioned}}
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==See Also==
 
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Latest revision as of 18:57, 13 July 2022

H.M.S. Cygnet (1898)
Pendant Number: N.49 (1914)
D.38 (Sep 1915)
D.22 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: John I. Thornycroft & Company[2]
Ordered: 1896-97[3]
Laid down: 25 Sep, 1896[4]
Launched: 3 Sep, 1898[5]
Commissioned: Feb, 1900[6]
Broken up: 1920[7]

H.M.S. Cygnet was one of the Royal Navy's eleven "D" class destroyers.

Service

In late 1899, she was part of the Medway Destroyer/Instructional Flotilla.[8]

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

In mid-1913, she was serving in The Nore.[10]

Lt. Orrell Bake was appointed in command in June, 1914. The ship would suffer three collisions under his oversight. In 1914 he collided with S.S. Glenbrook during a mooring operation. Luckily, no serious damage resulted. However, on 10 December 1914, Cygnet was damaged on entering Felixstowe Dock. This elicited a caution for Bake.[11]

In March 1915, Cygnet collided with Brighton Queen. Orrell Bake was finally superseded in command of the destroyer as a result of this third misadventure and sent to work in a cruiser.[12]

Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. Frederick John Thompson replaced Bake, and commanded the ship until November 1916.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 58.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
  7. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
  8. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Monday, Dec 11, 1899; pg. 9; Issue 36009.
  9. ↑ "The Naval Mobilization." The Times (London, England), Thursday, June 17, 1909, Issue 38988, p.9.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 298.
  11. ↑ Bake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/237. f. 288.
  12. ↑ Bake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/237. f. 288.
  13. ↑ Hood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 114.
  14. ↑ Hood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 114.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1900). p. 241.
  16. ↑ Dewar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/463. f. 517.
  17. ↑ Dewar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/463. f. 517.
  18. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Friday, 14 March 1902. (36715), p. 9.
  19. ↑ Todd Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/7. f. 7.
  20. ↑ Todd Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/7. f. 7.
  21. ↑ Todd Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/7. f. 7.
  22. ↑ Benwell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/200. f. 215.
  23. ↑ Benwell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/200. f. 215.
  24. ↑ The Navy List. (June, 1906). p. 299.
  25. ↑ Noble Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/248. f. 282.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 298.
  27. ↑ Noble Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/248. f. 282.
  28. ↑ Barrow Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/444. f. 511.
  29. ↑ Barrow Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/444. f. 511.
  30. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 298.
  31. ↑ Rest of date not legible in his Service Record.
  32. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 298.
  33. ↑ Cater Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/17. f. 9.
  34. ↑ Wilkinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/89. f. 47.
  35. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 400.
  36. ↑ Wilkinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/89. f. 47.
  37. ↑ Bate Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/180. f. 585.
  38. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1913). p. 300a.
  39. ↑ Bate Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/180. f. 585.
  40. ↑ Bacchus Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/59. f. 462.
  41. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 300a.
  42. ↑ Bacchus Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/59. f. 462.
  43. ↑ Bake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/237. f. 288.
  44. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 393h.
  45. ↑ Bake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/237. f. 288.
  46. ↑ Thompson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/82/1788. f. 360.
  47. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 393m.
  48. ↑ Thompson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/82/1788. f. 360.
  49. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 773.
  50. ↑ Bray Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/56/114. f. 114.

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