H.M.S. Myrmidon (1900)

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H.M.S. Myrmidon (1896)
Pendant Number: P.83 (1914)
D.85 (Sep 1915)[1]
Builder: Palmer[2]
Ordered: 1899 Programme[3]
Laid down: 23 Oct, 1899[4]
Launched: 26 May, 1896[5]
Commissioned: May, 1901[6]
Mined: 26 Mar, 1917[7]
Fate: in English Channel[8]

H.M.S. Myrmidon was one of twenty-four destroyers of the "B" class — a "30 knotter".

Service

In mid-1913, she was with the Third Destroyer Flotilla.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 97.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 97.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 97.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 97.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 97.
  7. March. British Destroyers. p. 52.
  8. Smith. Hard Lying. p. 63.
  9. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 347.
  10. The Navy List (March, 1913), p. 347.
  11. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 347.
  12. The Navy List (January, 1915), p. 359.

Bibliography


"B" Class Destroyer
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Griffon Locust Panther Seal Wolf
Express Orwell Lively Sprightly Success
Spiteful Peterel Myrmidon Syren Kangaroo
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