H.M.S. Hunter (1895)

H.M.S. Hunter (1895)
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Ordered:	1893-94
Laid down:	7 Jun, 1894
Launched:	28 Dec, 1895
Commissioned:	May, 1896
Broken up:	1912

H.M.S. Hunter was one of thirty-six 27 Knotters, a broad meta-class of early Torpedo Boat Destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s.

She was broken up before the war.

Service

Hunter was one of seventeen destroyers of the Reserve Division which left Sheerness on 1 July, 1905 for Spithead under the overall command of Commander R. G. Gregory in H.M.S. Spitfire.

She and sixteen other destroyers of the Reserve Division arrived at Sheerness on 13 July 1905 and proceeded to Chatham.

She was one of twenty-seven T.B.Ds. of the Portsmouth Flotilla to participate in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1909.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander Percy S. St. John, 8 July, 1896 – 18 August, 1896  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1896)
• Commander Reginald G. O. Tupper, 18 August, 1896 – 7 November, 1896
• Lieutenant & Commander Herbert G. Smith, 7 November, 1896 – 9 September, 1897
• Lieutenant & Commander Philip S. Watson, 13 September, 1897 – 4 October, 1897
• Lieutenant & Commander Philip S. Watson, 1898 – 30 Sepotember, 1898
• Lieutenant in Command William N. England, 13 September, 1898 – 13 September, 1898
• Lieutenant & Commander Lawrence de W. Satow, 13 September, 1898 – 1 February, 1899
• Lieutenant & Commander Robert G. Corbett, 1 February, 1899 – 27 March, 1900
• Gunner in Command John W. Renshaw, 8 February, 1900 – 1903
• Chief Gunner (in Command?) Edward Duffett, 30 April, 1903 – 2 January, 1905  (possibly also of Conflict)
• Lieutenant & Commander Gerard C. Pigou, 21 July, 1903  (temporary, for Annual Manoeuvres of 1903)
• Lieutenant & Commander Colpoys C. Walcott, 14 July, 1904  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1904)
• Lieutenant & Commander Bernard J. H. Ward, 3 January, 1905 – 23 May, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander William J. Scott, 23 May, 1905 – 1906^{[Fact Check]}
• Lieutenant & Commander Robert J. Buchanan, 1 January, 1906 – 12 May, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander Aubrey E. D. Moore, 12 May, 1906 – 28 May, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander Robert J. Buchanan, 28 May, 1906 – 1 January, 1907
• Chief Gunner in Command Walter G. Jones, 1 January, 1907
• Lieutenant & Commander Percy Johnson, 1 May, 1907 – 14 January, 1908
• Lieutenant & Commander George F. A. Mulock, 14 January, 1908 – 16 January, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander Reginald G. Talbot, 16 January, 1909 – 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander (T) Cecil R. Nicholl, 1909 – 15 January, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Richard W. U. Bayly, 15 January, 1910 – 11 August, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Charles L. Fox, 11 August, 1910 – 24 May, 1911

See Also

• Wikipedia