H.M.S. Laverock (1913)

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H.M.S. Laverock (1913)
Pendant Number: H.53 (1914)
H.53 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Yarrow & Company[2]
Launched: 19 Nov, 1913[3]
Sold: May, 1921[4]

H.M.S. Laverock was one of twenty-two destroyers of the Laforey class.

Service

Laverock collided with her flotilla-mate Medusa in heavy seas and wild winds on the night of 25 March 1916. Medusa was lost in the encounter, but her entire crew was saved by H.M.S. Lassoo.[5]

Reduced to C. & M. Party at the Nore on 29 November, 1919.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  5. Butler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/68. f. 205.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 801.
  7. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 395j.
  8. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 395u.
  9. Binmore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/202. f. 214.
  10. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 395.
  11. Binmore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/202. f. 214.
  12. Ritter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/36. f. 36.
  13. The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 829.
  14. Ritter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/36. f. 36.

Bibliography


Laforey Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Llewellyn Lennox Loyal Legion Laforey
Lawford Louis Lydiard Laertes Lysander
  Lance Lookout  
White 2-Funnelled Type
  Laurel Liberty  
Yarrow 2-Funnelled Type
  Lark Landrail Laverock Linnet  
War Emergency Repeat "L" Class
  Lochinvar Lassoo Leonidas Lucifer  
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