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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Hedworth Meux|nick=The Hon. Hedworth Lambton|appt=8 June, 1897<ref>Meux Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 774.</ref>|end=8 June, 1900<ref>Meux Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 364.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Hedworth Meux|nick=The Hon. Hedworth Lambton|appt=8 June, 1897<ref>Meux Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 774.</ref>|end=8 June, 1900<ref>Meux Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/19.}} f. 364.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick St. George Rich|nick=Frederick St. G. Rich|appt=3 January, 1905<ref>Rich Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 1102.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick St. George Rich|nick=Frederick St. G. Rich|appt=3 January, 1905<ref>Rich Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 1102.</ref>|end=26 August, 1905<ref>Rich Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 1110.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Lionel Halsey|nick=Lionel Halsey|appt=26 August, 1905<ref>Halsey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7576543}}  f. 243.</ref>|end=1 January, 1908<ref>Halsey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7576543}}  f. 243.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Lionel Halsey|nick=Lionel Halsey|appt=26 August, 1905<ref>Halsey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7576543}}  f. 243.</ref>|end=1 January, 1908<ref>Halsey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7576543}}  f. 243.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cecil Irby Prowse|nick=Cecil I. Prowse|appt=1 January, 1908<ref>Prowse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 423.</ref>|end=31 December, 1910<ref>Prowse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 423.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cecil Irby Prowse|nick=Cecil I. Prowse|appt=1 January, 1908<ref>Prowse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 423.</ref>|end=31 December, 1910<ref>Prowse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 423.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain}}

Revision as of 15:29, 21 March 2015

H.M.S. Powerful (1895)
Builder: Vickers, Barrow[1]
Laid down: Feb, 1894
Launched: 24 Jul, 1895[2]
Commissioned: 8 Jun, 1897[3]
Sold: 31 Aug, 1929[4]
Fate: Scrapped

Service

In 1910, Powerful was the best gunnery ship of the eight tested of the Australia Station, scoring 55.65 versus the average 35.455.[5]

In mid-1913, she was in Devonport, attached to the training ship Impregnable.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 67.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 67.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 67.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 323.
  5. The National Archives. ADM 1/8328, p. 4.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 357.
  7. Meux Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 774.
  8. Meux Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 364.
  9. Rich Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1102.
  10. Rich Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1110.
  11. Halsey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 243.
  12. Halsey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 243.
  13. Prowse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 423.
  14. Prowse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 423.
  15. Bruen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 418.
  16. Johnson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 54.
  17. Johnson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 54.
  18. Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 86.
  19. Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 86.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.



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