H.M.S. Rocket (1894)

H.M.S. Rocket (1894)
Builder:	Thomson
Ordered:	1893-94
Laid down:	14 Feb, 1894
Launched:	14 Aug, 1894
Commissioned:	Jul, 1895
Broken up:	1912

H.M.S. Rocket was one of forty-two "A" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "27 knotter".

Like many of the "A" class, she was broken up before the war.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander Ernest E. Lacy, 14 January, 1896 – 23 May, 1896
• Lieutenant & Commander Evan C. Bunbury, 17 February, 1903
• Lieutenant in Command Osmond J. Prentis, 19 April, 1904 – 20 May, 1904
• Lieutenant & Commander Michael Barne, 3 January, 1905 – 1 April, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Reginald G. Copleston, 1 April, 1905 – 20 October, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Henry F. D. Jelf, 20 October, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Percy Crabtree, 1 January, 1906 – 8 February, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander Arthur T. Blackwood, 20 February, 1906 – before 27 April, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander Richard Daly, April, 1906 – 5 August, 1906
• Lieutenant Leonard A. B. Donaldson, June, 1906 – late June, 1906  (for manoeuvres)
• Lieutenant & Commander Theodore E. J. Bigg, 3 August, 1906 – 26 April, 1907
• Lieutenant & Commander Reginald Henniker-Heaton, June, 1907 – 5 March, 1908
• Lieutenant & Commander Herbert R. Stokes, 5 March, 1908 – May, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander (T) Cecil R. Nicholl, mid 1909 – 29 July, 1909^[Inference]
• Lieutenant & Commander (T) Walter G. Rigg, 29 July, 1909 – 20 June, 1910
• Commander (I, Ru.) Edward A. D. Masterman, 16 February, 1911 – 12 April, 1911  (and for Whitehead Experiments)
• Commander Forster D. Arnold-Forster, 12 April, 1911 – 16 June, 1911
• Commander Forster D. Arnold-Forster, 25 July, 1911 – 1 August, 1911
• Commander William L. Elder, 9 August, 1911 – 31 October, 1911

See Also

• Wikipedia