H.M.S. Wolverine (1910)

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H.M.S. Wolverine (1910)
Pendant Number: H.18 (1917)[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird[2]
Ordered: 1908-09 Programme[3]
Launched: 15 Jan, 1910[4]
Collision: 12 Dec, 1917[5]
Fate: w/sloop Rosemary[6]

H.M.S. Wolverine was one of sixteen destroyers of the Beagle class.

Service

In mid-1913, active with the Third Destroyer Flotilla.[7]

While working as a high speed minesweeper in the Dardanelles area, Commander Osmond J. Prentis was killed by a shell which struck her bridge.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 61.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 73-74.
  3. March. British Destroyers. p. 101.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 73-74.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 61.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 61.
  7. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 397a.
  8. Smith. Hard Lying. p. 113.
  9. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 397a.
  10. The Navy List (January, 1915). p. 397a.

Bibliography


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