H.M.S. Peterel (1899)

H.M.S. Peterel (1899)
Pendant Number:	P.74 (1914) D.88 (Sep 1915) D.68 (Jan 1918) H.54 (Sep 1918)
Builder:	Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Ordered:	1897-98 Programme
Laid down:	29 Jul, 1898
Launched:	30 Mar, 1899
Commissioned:	Jul, 1900
Broken up:	1919

H.M.S. Peterel was one of twenty-four "B" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "30 knotter".

Broken up in 1919, her name was eventually taken by a river gunboat launched in 1927.

Service

Peterel participated in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1901 soon after completion.

In mid-1913, active with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla — a patrol flotilla.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Trevylyan D. W. Napier, 6 October, 1900 – 14 October, 1901
• Commander Brian H. F. Barttelot, 14 October, 1901 – 14 February, 1902
• Commander Roger J. B. Keyes, 21 July, 1903  (for manoeuvres)
• Lieutenant in Command Osmond J. Prentis, 13 February, 1904 – 19 April, 1904
• Lieutenant in Command Osmond J. Prentis, 13 September, 1904 – 1 November, 1904
• Lieutenant & Commander Arthur Bromley, 1 November, 1904 – 4 October, 1906^[Inference]
• Lieutenant & Commander George P. Leith, 4 October, 1906 – 29 October, 1907
• Lieutenant-Commander Mark G. Newton, 14 January, 1908 – 22 October, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander Maurice C. Bomford, 23 October, 1909 – 10 January, 1910
• Lieutenant-Commander Hugh D. Colville, 10 January, 1910 – 19 October, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Clarence W. E. Trelawny, 19 October, 1910 – 21 March, 1912
• Lieutenant & Commander Salisbury H. Simpson, March, 1912 – 17 March, 1914  (and for command of some reduced T.B.Ds.)
• Lieutenant in Command George F. Hole, 17 March, 1914 – 19 February, 1915  (suffering from neurasthenia)
• Lieutenant in Command Joseph H. L. Yorke, 19 February, 1915 – 16 December, 1915
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Alphonse M. Tulloch, 16 December, 1915 – 16 January, 1918
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Norman W. M. Kemp, 13 December, 1917 – 27 February, 1919

See Also

• Wikipedia