H.M.S. Blonde (1910)
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H.M.S. Blonde (1910) | |
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Pendant Number: | C7 (1014) 18 (Jan 1918) 64 (Apr 1918)[1] |
Builder: | Pembroke Royal Dockyard[2] |
Ordered: | 1909 Programme[3] |
Laid down: | 6 Dec, 1909[4] |
Launched: | 22 Jul, 1910[5] |
Commissioned: | May, 1911[6] |
Sold: | 6 May, 1920[7] |
Fate: | to T. C. Pas, Holland[8] |
H.M.S. Blonde was a scout cruiser in the Royal Navy completed in 1911. Modern sources often treat her as the name ship of a two-vessel class, but we treat her as contemporary documents do, as one of seven ships of the Boadicea class.
Career
Commissioned at Pembroke Dock 17 May, 1911. Soon thereafter, she became the flagship cruiser of First Destroyer Flotilla.[9]
Captains
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Arthur Russell Hulbert, 10 May, 1912, commanding the First Destroyer Flotilla.[10] until his accidental death on 12 January, 1913.[11]Commodore * Captain William Frederick Blunt, 25 April, 1913, commanding the First Destroyer Flotilla.[12]
- Captain Albert C. Scott, 5 July, 1913.[13]
- Captain Basil Vernon Brooke, October 1916.[14]
- Captain The Hon. Arthur L. O. Forbes-Sempill, February 1917.[15]
- Commander Theodore John Hallett, 1 July 1917.[16]
- Captain Gregory Gonville Cuff Wood-Martin, December 1917.[17]
- Captain Maurice D. Evans, January, 1919.[18]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 50.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 50.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 50.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 45.
- ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913). p. 286.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 23 April, 1912. Issue 39880, col G, p. 16.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913). p. 286.
- ↑ The Navy List (October, 1915). p. 392l.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ The Navy List (November, 1917). p. 391u.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
Bibliography
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