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Lieutenant [[James Rose Price Hawksley]] was found at fault for grounding ''Sturgeon'' on 29 October, 1898.<ref>Hawksley Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 289.</ref> | Lieutenant [[James Rose Price Hawksley]] was found at fault for grounding ''Sturgeon'' on 29 October, 1898.<ref>Hawksley Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 289.</ref> | ||
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==Captains== | ==Captains== | ||
Dates of appointment are provided when known. | Dates of appointment are provided when known. |
Revision as of 16:58, 17 April 2018
H.M.S. Sturgeon (1894) | |
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Builder: | Vickers[1] |
Ordered: | 1893-94[2] |
Laid down: | 1 Mar, 1894[3] |
Launched: | 21 Jul, 1894[4] |
Commissioned: | 14 Jan, 1896[5] |
Broken up: | 1912[6] |
H.M.S. Sturgeon was one of forty-two "A" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "27 knotter".
She was broken up before the war.
Service
Lieutenant James Rose Price Hawksley was found at fault for grounding Sturgeon on 29 October, 1898.[7]
Sturgeon was one of seventeen destroyers of the Reserve Division which left Sheerness on 1 July, 1905 for Spithead under the overall command of Commander R. G. Gregory in H.M.S. Spitfire.[8]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Lieutenant Percy S. St. John, 14 January, 1896[9] – 8 July, 1896
- Lieutenant & Commander Marcus R. Hill, 1 January, 1898[10] – 8 October, 1898[Fact Check]
- Lieutenant in Command John Luce, 24 August, 1899[11] – 25 January, 1900[12]
- Lieutenant & Commander Murray MacG. Lockhart, 25 January, 1900[13] – 9 March, 1900
- Lieutenant & Commander Henry C. R. Brocklebank, 31 May, 1900[14] – c. July, 1900[15]
- Lieutenant & Commander Philip J. Stopford, 13 October, 1900[16] – 16 November, 1900[17]
- Lieutenant in Command Hugh P. Buckle, 10 October, 1901[18] – 5 December, 1901[19]
- Lieutenant & Commander Reginald A. Norton, 29 November, 1901[20] – 16 April, 1902
- Lieutenant & Commander John M. D. E. Warren, 8 May, 1902[21][22] – 2 August, 1902[23]
- Lieutenant & Commander Reginald L. Crichton, 2 April, 1903[24][25] – 1903[26]
- Lieutenant & Commander Bernhard A. Pratt-Barlow, 16 October, 1903 – early 1904
- Lieutenant & Commander Claude A. Rombulow-Pearse, 1904 – 26 August, 1904
- Lieutenant & Commander Francis B. Favell, 23 September, 1905 – 3 October, 1905
- Lieutenant & Commander John A. Fellows, 3 October, 1905[27] – 29 March, 1909
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93. Then known as the "Naval Construction and Armament Company".
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 92.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
- ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 266.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
- ↑ Hawksley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 289.
- ↑ "Naval And Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Monday, Jul 03, 1905; pg. 12; Issue 37749.
- ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 266.
- ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1898). p. 299.
- ↑ Luce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 79.
- ↑ Luce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 79.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1900). p. 301.
- ↑ Brocklebank Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/390. f. 431.
- ↑ Brocklebank Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/390. f. 431.
- ↑ Stopford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/205. 221.
- ↑ Stopford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/205. 221.
- ↑ Buckle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/117. f. 117.
- ↑ Buckle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/117. f. 117.
- ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1902). p. 304.
- ↑ Warren Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/422. f. 469.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Thursday, 15 May 1902. (36768), p. 7.
- ↑ Warren Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/422. f. 469.
- ↑ Crichton Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/46. f. 54.
- ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1903). p. 304a.
- ↑ Crichton Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/46. f. 54.
- ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 378.
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