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She fought at the [[Battle of Jutland]] under {{CommRN}} [[Charles Albert Fremantle|Charles A. Fremantle]] as part of the {{UK-DF|1}},{{UKJutlandOD|pp. 34, 46}} which was tasked with screening the {{UK-BS|5}}. It fell upon her to look for survivors of the {{UK-Invincible}}. | She fought at the [[Battle of Jutland]] under {{CommRN}} [[Charles Albert Fremantle|Charles A. Fremantle]] as part of the {{UK-DF|1}},{{UKJutlandOD|pp. 34, 46}} which was tasked with screening the {{UK-BS|5}}. It fell upon her to look for survivors of the {{UK-Invincible}}. | ||
− | Reduced to a C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919. | + | Reduced to a C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 729}} |
==Captains== | ==Captains== |
Revision as of 18:34, 13 November 2014
H.M.S. Badger (1911) | |
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Pendant Number: | H.15 (1914) H.52 (Sep 1915) H.09 (Jan 1918)[1] |
Builder: | Denny[2] |
Ordered: | 1910-11 Programme[3] |
Launched: | 11 Jul, 1911[4] |
Completed: | Aug, 1912[5] |
Sold: | 9 May, 1921[6] |
H.M.S. Badger was one of 29 destroyers of the Acheron class.
Radio
She was one of 18 Acheron class destroyers fitted with W/T in 1912, becoming one of 123 destroyers so far fitted with Destroyer Sets.[7]
Service
In July 1913, Badger was serving with the First Destroyer Flotilla.[8]
In June 1914, planned alterations in Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, when the ship was presumably serving with the First Destroyer Flotilla were to be deferred:[9]
- fitting of boom to stern
- addition of loading lights to guns
On 29 October 1914, Badger was patrolling near the Terschelling Lightship for U-boats with the 2nd Division of the First Flotilla and located and rammed U 19. She only damaged the U-boat, but her stem collapsed back to the first bulkhead, prompting a strengthening of the bows of her class.[10]
She fought at the Battle of Jutland under Commander Charles A. Fremantle as part of the First Destroyer Flotilla,[11] which was tasked with screening the Fifth Battle Squadron. It fell upon her to look for survivors of the Invincible.
Reduced to a C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.[12]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander Charles A. Fremantle, 29 July, 1912[13] – after 1 June, 1916[14] (in command at Battle of Jutland)
- Commander Alan M. Yeats-Brown, 7 November, 1916[15]
- Lieutenant in Command Kenneth G. Ramsey, 12 May, 1917[16]
- Commander Geoffrey Corlett, 22 February, 1918[17]
Searchlights
Badger had a (hydraulic?) control system to control her searchlights whose success prompted an Admiralty order to fit the same gear to the earlier Beagle class,[18] and almost immediately thereafter the initiative was to be extended to the destroyers of the First, Second and Fourth Destroyer Flotillas.[19]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
- ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. Wireless Appendix, p. 6.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 282.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 36 of 19 June, 1914.
- ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 120.
- ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 46.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 729.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 280.
- ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 46.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 392i.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391o.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 737.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 441 of 2 Oct, 1914.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 441 of 6 Oct, 1914.
Bibliography
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