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Revision as of 14:31, 27 March 2017

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]
Completed: Sep, 1910[5]
Collision: 12 Dec, 1917[6]
Fate: w/sloop Rosemary[7]

H.M.S. Wolverine was one of sixteen destroyers of the Beagle class. She was lost in a collision in December, 1917.

A later H.M.S. Wolverine was launched in 1919.

Service

In mid-1913, active with the Third Destroyer Flotilla.[8]

On 28 April, 1915, as Wolverine was working as a high speed minesweeper in the Dardanelles area, Commander Osmond J. Prentis was killed by a shell which struck her bridge.[9] He was succeeded in command by Lieutenant-Commander Adrian St. Vincent Keyes, who would continue to lead Wolverine in vital support workj on the left side of operational area.

At Suvla Bay on 6-7 August, 1915, Wolverine worked with five other Beagles and Arno to tow troop barges in.[10]

Two men died when she sank after a collision off Northwest Ireland.[11]

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. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 61.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 61.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 397a.
  9. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 113.
  10. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 113.
  11. ↑ Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. 433.
  12. ↑ Seymour Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/177. f. 198.
  13. ↑ Seymour Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/177. f. 198.
  14. ↑ Preston Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/79. f. 79.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 397a.
  16. ↑ Preston Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/79. f. 79.
  17. ↑ Edwards Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/417. ff. 419, 229.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1913). p. 397a.
  19. ↑ Edwards Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/417. ff. 419, 229.
  20. ↑ Prentis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/118. f. 130.
  21. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 399h.
  22. ↑ Prentis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/118. f. 130.
  23. ↑ Keyes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/75. f. 280.
  24. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 399k.
  25. ↑ Keyes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/75. f. 280.
  26. ↑ de Meric Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/284. f. 299.
  27. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 399j.
  28. ↑ de Meric Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/284. f. 299.
  29. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 399g.
  30. ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 112.

Bibliography


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