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'''H.M.S. ''Lurcher''''' was one of twenty-nine destroyers of the [[Acheron Class Destroyer (1910)|''Acheron'' class]].
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'''H.M.S. ''Lurcher''''' was one of twenty-nine destroyers of the [[Acheron Class Destroyer (1910)|''Acheron'' class]], one of the three "Yarrow specials" which proved so amazingly fast.
  
 
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At the [[Battle of Heligoland Bight]], ''Lurcher'' was erroneously feared lost after she'd gone so far into the Ems in search of the enemy.  Later, she bolted in to rescue 220 survivors of {{DE-Mainz}}.{{HardLying|p. 126}}
 
At the [[Battle of Heligoland Bight]], ''Lurcher'' was erroneously feared lost after she'd gone so far into the Ems in search of the enemy.  Later, she bolted in to rescue 220 survivors of {{DE-Mainz}}.{{HardLying|p. 126}}
  
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Reduced to C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 804}}
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[[Lionel George Dawson|Lionel Dawson]] admitted that he suffered many of his operational accidents in ''Lurcher'', colliding with submarines and fouling buoys in and around Harwich.{{DawsonFlotillas|pp 151-153 and nearby passages}}
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She was reduced to the care of a C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 804}}
  
 
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{{Tenure|rank=Commander|name=Wilfred Tomkinson|nick=Wilfred Tomkinson|appt=3 August, 1914<ref>Tomkinson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 375.</ref>|end=22 September, 1915<ref>Tomkinson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 375.</ref>}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank=Commander|name=Lionel George Dawson|nick=Lionel G. Dawson|appt=25 September, 1915{{NLDec16|p. 395''y''}}<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|D7576679}} f. 208.</ref>|end=28 November, 1916<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|D7576679}} f. 208.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Commander|name=Lionel George Dawson|nick=Lionel G. Dawson|appt=25 September, 1915{{NLDec16|p. 395''y''}}<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|D7576679}} f. 208.</ref>|end=28 November, 1916<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|D7576679}} f. 208.</ref>}}
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Revision as of 20:32, 15 May 2016

H.M.S. Lurcher (1912)
Pendant Number: H.01 (1914)
H.65 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Yarrow[2]
Ordered: 1910-11 Programme[3]
Launched: 1 Jun, 1912[4]
Completed: Oct, 1913[5]
Sold: 9 Jun, 1922[6]

H.M.S. Lurcher was one of twenty-nine destroyers of the Acheron class, one of the three "Yarrow specials" which proved so amazingly fast.

Service

In mid-1913, she was in the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla.[7]

At the Battle of Heligoland Bight, Lurcher was erroneously feared lost after she'd gone so far into the Ems in search of the enemy. Later, she bolted in to rescue 220 survivors of Mainz.[8]

Lionel Dawson admitted that he suffered many of his operational accidents in Lurcher, colliding with submarines and fouling buoys in and around Harwich.[9]

Post-War

She was reduced to the care of a C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  5. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 342.
  8. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 126.
  9. ↑ Dawson. Flotillas. pp 151-153 and nearby passages.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 804.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1913). p. 342.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1914). p. 342.
  13. ↑ Tomkinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 375.
  14. ↑ Tomkinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 375.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 395y.
  16. ↑ Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 208.
  17. ↑ Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 208.

Bibliography


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