H.M.S. Itchen (1903)

H.M.S. Itchen (1903)
Pendant Number:	N.06 (1914) D.22 (Sep 1915)
Builder:	Laird
Ordered:	1901-02 Programme
Laid down:	18 Aug, 1902
Launched:	17 Mar, 1903
Commissioned:	Jan, 1904
Torpedoed:	6 Jul, 1917
Fate:	by UC 44 in North Sea

H.M.S. Itchen was one of 36 destroyers of the "River" class.

Service

In mid-1913, she was operating with the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla. On the afternoon of 18 May, one of her boats was swamped off Granton, resulting in the loss of seven of the twenty men from Itchen, Kale and Ure aboard.

In January 1915, under the command of Lt. Cdr. Herbert Maynard Denny, she collided with a trawler. On 28 January, she ran into the wall of Immingham Dock. Both of these accidents prompted a caution from the Admiral of Patrols.

On 11 May 1915, Denny was superseded in command by Frederic Graham Schurr, who would command the ship until late October 1915.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant in Command Walter H. Cowan, 2 February, 1904 – 13 April, 1904
• Lieutenant in Command Wilfred Henderson, 14 July, 1904 – 20 October, 1904  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1904)
• Lieutenant in Command Claude Seymour, 27 October, 1904 – 28 May, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander John A. Gregory, 28 May, 1906 – 9 June, 1909  (superseded after grounding)
• Commander John M. D. E. Warren, 9 June, 1909 – 15 December, 1910
• Commander Francis G. St. G. Brooker, 15 December, 1910 – 1 January, 1911
• Commander Frank Powell, 10 January, 1911 – 11 April, 1911
• Lieutenant & Commander Sydney Hopkins, 13 September, 1911 – June, 1912
• Lieutenant & Commander Sydney Hopkins, 10 August, 1912 – 14 April, 1913
• Lieutenant & Commander Reginald V. Holt, 14 April, 1913 – 15 July, 1913
• Lieutenant in Command Reginald V. Holt, July, 1914 – 15 September, 1914
• Lieutenant-Commander Herbert M. Denny, September, 1914 – 11 May, 1915
• Lieutenant-Commander Frederic G. Schurr, 11 May, 1915 – 24 October, 1915
• Lieutenant in Command Julian Harrison, 24 October, 1915 – 4 March, 1916
• Lieutenant in Command Maxwell N. Williamson-Napier, 8 March, 1916 – 4 October, 1916
• Lieutenant in Command Lawrence F. N. Ommanney, 4 October, 1916 – 6 April, 1917
• Lieutenant in Command Frederick L. Cavaye, 6 April, 1917 – 6 July, 1917  (vessel lost to torpedo under his command)

See Also

• Wikipedia