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''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 Destroyer (1909)|''Beagle'' class]].{{AWO1914|441 of 2 Oct, 1914}}
  
 
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==See Also==

Revision as of 17:31, 17 November 2012

H.M.S. Badger (1911)
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]
Sold: 9 May, 1921[5]

H.M.S. Badger was one of 29 destroyers of the Acheron class.

Career

In June 1914, planned alterations in Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, when the ship was presumably serving with the First Destroyer Flotilla were to be deferred:[6]

  • fitting of boom to stern
  • addition of loading lights to guns

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

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.[7]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  6. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 36 of 19 June, 1914.
  7. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 441 of 2 Oct, 1914.

Bibliography


Acheron Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
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Yarrow Specials
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Thornycroft Specials
  Acheron Ariel  
Parsons Specials
  Badger Beaver  
Firedrake/Yarrow Specials
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  Huon Swan Torrens  
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