H.M.S. Cockchafer (1881)

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H.M.S. Cockchafer (1881)
Builder: Pembroke Royal Dockyard[1]
Launched: 19 Feb, 1881[Citation needed]
Sold: 1905[2]
H.M.S. Cockchafer was one of 11 gunboats of the Banterer class.

Service

The vessel participated in the Jubilee Naval Review and possibly the Annual Manoeuvres of 1897 under the command of Chief Officer W. Smith.[3]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
  3. "The Naval Review at Spithead." The Times (London, England), 25 June 1897; p. 13.
  4. The Navy List. (March, 1883). p. 202.
  5. Groome Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/458. f. 544.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1884). p. 202.
  7. Tisdall Service Record. The National Archives. D7579001 ADM 196/39/539. f. 1311.
  8. Tisdall Service Record. The National Archives. D7579001 ADM 196/39/539. f. 1311.
  9. The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 201.

Bibliography


Banterer Class Gunboat
Pembroke-built
  Redwing Bullfrog Cockchafer  
Barrow Iron Shipbuilding-built
Grappler Wrangler Wasp Banterer Espoir
Samuda Brothers-built
  Starling Stork Raven  
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