H.M.S. Dove (1898)

H.M.S. Dove (1898)
Pendant Number:	D.34 (1914) D.51 (Sep 1915) D.28 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	Earle's Shipbuilding
Ordered:	1896-97 Programme
Laid down:	17 Sep, 1896
Launched:	21 Mar, 1898
Commissioned:	Jul, 1901
Broken up:	1920

H.M.S. Dove was one of forty "C" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "30 knotter".

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander Geoffrey T. Bowles, 16 July, 1901 – 15 August, 1901  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1901)
• Commander Douglas R. M. Nicholson, 14 February, 1902 – 10 June, 1902
• Lieutenant & Commander Archibald C. Goolden, 21 July, 1903 – 19 August, 1903  (lent, for Annual Manoeuvres of 1903)
• Lieutenant in Command Osmond J. Prentis, 3 November, 1903 – 26 November, 1903
• Lieutenant in Command Anselan J. B. Stirling, 27 November, 1903 – 3 September, 1904
• Commander Alan C. Bruce, 6 April, 1905 – 7 April, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander Duncan H. Carmichael, 7 April, 1906 – 28 May, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander Claude P. Champion de Crespigny, 28 May, 1906 – 1 August, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander Colin E. M. Law, 1 September, 1909 – 4 January, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Godfray Bruce Cargill, August, 1910 – 27 January, 1911
• Lieutenant & Commander Thomas K. Maxwell, 27 January, 1911 – 1 March, 1911
• Lieutenant & Commander Frederic A. H. Russel, 1 March, 1911 – 24 January, 1912
• Lieutenant-Commander Richard B. England, 2 July, 1912 – c. late August, 1912  (manoeuvres)
• Lieutenant in Command Arthur M. Peters, 10 September, 1912 – November, 1912  (temporary)
• Lieutenant in Command Delorest J. D. Noble, 15 September, 1913 – 10 May, 1915
• Lieutenant in Command George H. Creswell, 8 May, 1915 – 1 January, 1916
• Acting Commander R.N.R. Cyril Edwards, 1 January, 1916 – 30 June, 1918

See Also

• Wikipedia