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Revision as of 07:25, 30 December 2013

H.M.S. Recruit (1896)
Pendant Number: N.60 (1914)[1]
Builder: Thomson[2]
Ordered: 1895-96 Programme[3]
Laid down: 18 Oct, 1895[4]
Launched: 22 Aug, 1896[5]
Commissioned: Oct, 1900[6]
Torpedoed: 1 May, 1915[7]
Fate: by UB 16

H.M.S. Recruit was one of forty destroyers of the "C" class — a "30 knotter".

She is not to be confused with the "R" class destroyer of the same name.

Service

In mid-1913, active with the Nore Defence Flotilla.[8]

She was torpedoed by UB 16 on 1 May, 1915[9] near Galloper Lightship, with the loss of 39.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 58.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 58.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 58.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 94.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 58.
  8. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 365.
  9. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 58.
  10. Smith. Hard Lying. p. 63.
  11. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 366.
  12. The Navy List (January, 1915), p. 376a.

Bibliography


"C" Class Destroyer
Star Whiting Bat Chamois Crane
Flying Fish Fawn Flirt Bullfinch Dove
Violet Sylvia Lee Avon Bittern
Otter Leopard Vixen Brazen Electra
Recruit Vulture Kestrel Cheerful Mermaid
Greyhound Racehorse Roebuck Gipsy Fairy
Osprey Leven Falcon Ostrich Thorn
Tiger Vigilant Albatross Viper Velox
<– "B" Class Destroyers (UK) "D" Class –>