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The following ships participated in the exercise.{{NMI|Friday, Jun 26, 1896; pg. 7; Issue 34927}}{{NMI|Thursday, Jul 09, 1896; pg. 11; Issue 34938}}
The following ships participated in the exercise.{{NMI|Friday, Jun 26, 1896; pg. 7; Issue 34927}}{{NMI|Thursday, Jul 09, 1896; pg. 11; Issue 34938}}


The Reserve Fleet would assemble at Plymouth Sound under the command of Vice-Admiral EH Seymour with Rear-Admiral AK WIlson as second-in-command.
The Reserve Fleet would assemble at Plymouth Sound under the command of Vice-Admiral [[Edward Hobart Seymour|E. H. Seymour]] with Rear-Admiral [[Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|A. K. Wilson]] as second-in-command.


===Devonport===
===Devonport===
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* {{UK-1Sharpshooter}} Commander [[Arthur Dodgson]] (ditto)
* {{UK-1Sharpshooter}} Commander [[Arthur Dodgson]] (ditto)


Torpedo Boat Destroyers to be brought to full complement:
Torpedo Boat Destroyers:
* {{UK-Banshee}}
* {{UK-Banshee}} [[Lionel de Lautour Wells]] (brought to full complement)
* {{UK-1Ferret}}
* {{UK-1Ferret}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Charles William Stares Leggatt]] (brought to full complement)
* {{UK-1Lynx}}
* {{UK-1Lynx}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Robert Henry Travers]] (brought to full complement)
* {{UK-Opossum}}
* {{UK-Opossum}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Cecil Foley Lambert]] (brought to full complement)


Torpedo-boats to be commission on 8 July:
Torpedo-boats:
* {{UK-TB52}} Acting Sub-lieutenant in Command "D. T. Morris" (I cannot identify this man)
* {{UK-TB52}} Acting Sub-lieutenant in Command "D. T. Morris" (commissioned on 8 July; I cannot identify this man)
* {{UK-TB55}} Acting Sub-lieutenant in Command [[Walter Hose]]
* {{UK-TB55}} Acting Sub-lieutenant in Command [[Walter Hose]] (commissioned on 8 July)
* {{UK-TB57}} Acting Sub-lieutenant in Command [[Henry George Robinson Bevan]]
* {{UK-TB57}} Acting Sub-lieutenant in Command [[Henry George Robinson Bevan]] (commissioned on 8 July)
* {{UK-TB58}} Sub-lieutenant in Command [[Gerald Ducat]]
* {{UK-TB58}} Sub-lieutenant in Command [[Gerald Ducat]] (commissioned on 8 July)
* {{UK-TB85}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Sydney Stewart Hall]]
* {{UK-TB85}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Sydney Stewart Hall]] (commissioned on 8 July)
* {{UK-TB87}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee]]
* {{UK-TB87}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee]] (commissioned on 8 July)


===Portsmouth===
===Portsmouth===


Battleships:
Battleships:
* {{UK-Sultan}} (commissioned on 8 July)
* {{UK-Sultan}} Captain [[Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa]] (commissioned on 8 July)
* {{UK-Alexandra}} Captain [[William Harvey Pigott]] (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-1Alexandra}} Captain [[William Harvey Pigott]] (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-1Edinburgh}} Captain [[John Robert Ebenezer Pattisson]] (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-1Edinburgh}} Captain [[John Robert Ebenezer Pattisson]] (brought up to full strength)


Cruisers:
Cruisers:
* {{UK-Iphigenia}} (commissioned 8 July)  
* {{UK-Iphigenia}} Captain [[William Wilson]] (commissioned 8 July)  
* {{UK-1Indefatigable}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-1Indefatigable}} Captain [[Horatio Nelson Dudding]] (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-Latona}}  (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-Latona}}  Captain [[Charles Henry Cross]] (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-Naiad}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-Naiad}} Captain [[Robert Dalrymple Barwick Bruce]] (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-1Iris}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-1Iris}} Captain [[Frank Hannam Henderson]] (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-1Melpomene}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-1Melpomene}} Captain [[Henry Leah]] (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-Australia}} Captain [[William Alison Dyke Acland, Second Baronet|William Alison Dyke Acland]] (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-Australia}} Captain [[William Alison Dyke Acland, Second Baronet|William Alison Dyke Acland]] (brought up to full strength)


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* {{UK-Niger}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Edmund Moore Cooper Cooper-Key]] (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-Niger}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Edmund Moore Cooper Cooper-Key]] (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-Leda}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Hubert Grant-Dalton]] (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-Leda}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Hubert Grant-Dalton]] (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-Spanker}} (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-Spanker}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Frederick Harston Eagles]] (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-Seagull}} (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-Seagull}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Arthur Barry]] (brought up to full strength)


Torpedo Boat Destroyers:
Torpedo Boat Destroyers:
* {{UK-Havock}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-1Havock}} Lieutenant & Commander [[William Frederick Blunt]] (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-1Hasty}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-1Hasty}} (cannot identify her captain) (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-Boxer}} (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-Boxer}} Commander [[Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper]] (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-Bruizer}} (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-Bruizer}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Anthony Francis Gurney]] (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-1Daring}} (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-1Daring}} [[Henry Thompson]] (brought up to full strength, would be delayed one week by engine trouble)
* {{UK-Hart}} (brought up to full strength)
* {{UK-Hart}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, First Baronet|Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt]] (brought up to full strength)


Torpedo-boats:
Torpedo-boats:
* {{UK-TB50}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-1TB50}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB59}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB59}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB60}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB60}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB66}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB66}} Sub-lieutenant in Command [[Henry Wise Parker]] (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB71}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB71}} Sub-lieutenant in Command [[Albert Percy Addison]] (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB76}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB76}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Richard Markham Tyringham Stephens]] (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB77}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB77}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB79}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB79}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB83}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB83}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB84}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB84}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Frank Brandt]] (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB94}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB94}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB95}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB95}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB64}} (was to be commissioned 8 July, but may have scratched)
* {{UK-TB64}} (was to be commissioned 8 July, but may have scratched)
* {{UK-TB65}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB65}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB67}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB67}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Francis Herbert Mitchell]] (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB68}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB68}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB73}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB73}} Sub-lieutenant in Command [[Percy Withers]] (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB74}} (commissioned 8 July)
* {{UK-TB74}} (commissioned 8 July)


Revision as of 14:26, 14 August 2018

The Royal Navy's Annual Manoeuvres of 1896 were conducted in the summer of 1896.

Order of Battle

The following ships participated in the exercise.[1][2]

The Reserve Fleet would assemble at Plymouth Sound under the command of Vice-Admiral E. H. Seymour with Rear-Admiral A. K. Wilson as second-in-command.

Devonport

Battleships to be brought to full complement:

Cruisers:

Gunboats:

Torpedo Boat Destroyers:

Torpedo-boats:

Portsmouth

Battleships:

Cruisers:

Gunboats:

Torpedo Boat Destroyers:

Torpedo-boats:

Chatham

Battleships:

Cruisers:

Gunboats:

Torpedo Boat Destroyers:

Torpedo-boats:

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jun 26, 1896; pg. 7; Issue 34927.
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 09, 1896; pg. 11; Issue 34938.


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