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Revision as of 20:41, 14 May 2014

H.M.S. Pathfinder (1904)
Pendant Number: N/A[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead[2]
Laid down: 15 Aug, 1903[3]
Launched: 16 Jul, 1904[4]
Commissioned: 18 Jul, 1905[5]
Torpedoed: 5 Sep, 1914[6]
Fate: by U 21 in North Sea[7]

H.M.S. Pathfinder was one of eight Sentinel class scout cruisers which entered Royal Navy service in 1905.

She was the first Royal Navy loss to submarine attack when sunk on 5 September, 1914.[8]

Service

Honours

On 2 October 1914, the Admiralty inserted into its Weekly Orders a note of "Appreciation of Conduct of Officers and Crews of Ships recently destroyed", mentioning this ship as one of six whose men displayed "exemplary steadiness and coolness... in face of imminent death".[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 85.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  8. Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 163.
  9. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 426 of 2 Oct, 1914.
  10. The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 352.
  11. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 352.
  12. The Navy List. (September, 1914). p. 366.

Bibliography


Sentinel Class Scout Cruiser
Vickers/Sentinel Group
  Sentinel Skirmisher  
Cammell Laird/Pathfinder Group
  Pathfinder Patrol  
Fairfield/Forward Group
  Foresight Forward  
Armstrong/Adventure Group
  Adventure Attentive  
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