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==Captains==
 
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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Revision as of 13:46, 4 November 2015

H.M.S. Severn (1885)
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[1]
Laid down: 1 Jan, 1884[2]
Launched: 29 Sep, 1885[3]
Commissioned: 1888[4]
Sold:

H.M.S. Severn was one of four second class protected cruisers of the Mersey class completed between 1887 and 1889.

Service

In 1887-88, Severn tested a new submerged broadside tube designed by William Henry May. The tube was mounted on the starboard broadside and angled 12 degrees before the beam; its primary distinction over existing designs was that the bar was not extended before firing the torpedo, but emerged into the water with the torpedo as it was fired. This pattern was found to work fairly well after modifications to the original design overcame damage to the propellers of the torpedo as it left and a great number of wild shots. It was retained in hopes that remaining defects could be made good.[5]

Severn was grounded when trying to come into Harwich on 13 December, 1901. Their Lordships "[could not] consider that in skirting the shore so close, due care was exercised in the navigation of the ship & further that ... the C.O. should not have risked going into Harwich on a falling tide."[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 75.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 75.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 75.
  5. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1888. p. 45-6.
  6. ↑ Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/86. f. 143.
  7. ↑ Hall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36. f. 246/566.
  8. ↑ Hall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36. f. 246/566.
  9. ↑ Burr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 86/174.
  10. ↑ Burr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 86/174.
  11. ↑ MacGill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 79.
  12. ↑ MacGill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. ff. 79, 543.
  13. ↑ Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 445.
  14. ↑ Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/86. f. 143.

Bibliography


Mersey Class Second Class Protected Cruiser
  Forth Mersey Severn Thames  
<– Surprise Class Minor Cruisers (UK) Scout Class –>


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