H.M.S. Sparrowhawk (1912)

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H.M.S. Sparrowhawk (1912)
Pendant Number: H.61 (1914)[1]
Builder: Swan Hunter[2]
Launched: 12 Oct, 1912[3]
Completed: May, 1913[4]
Sunk: 1 Jun, 1916[5]
Fate: in Battle of Jutland

H.M.S. Sparrowhawk was one of twenty destroyers of the Acasta class.

There was also an earlier and a later Sparrowhawk.

Service

In mid-1913, she was with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla.[6]

At the Battle of Jutland, she operated with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla and was lost in night action under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Sydney Hopkins.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 307.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 377.
  7. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 381a.

Bibliography


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