Eighth Destroyer Flotilla (Royal Navy)

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The Eighth Destroyer Flotilla was a formation of destroyers of the Royal Navy.

Composition

At the outbreak of war, the Eighth had thirteen "B", "C" and "D" class destroyers led by scout cruiser Pathfinder and a variety of torpedo boats. It was deemed a "Patrol Flotilla" and served out in the Nore Command with the Ninth flotilla, based out of Chatham.[1] Its depot ships were Tyne and Aquarius.[2]

Scout Cruiser
Pathfinder
"30 knotters"
Albacore Bat Cheerful Express Fairy Flying Fish Mallard
  Osprey Ostrich Peterel Stag Star Vigilant  
First-class T.B.s
  T.B. 25 T.B. 26 T.B. 27 T.B. 28 T.B. 29 T.B. 30  
  T.B. 31 T.B. 32 T.B. 33* T.B. 34 T.B. 35 T.B. 36  

It was noted that T.B. 33 was to join the Test Mobilisation, presumably delayed from a refit.[3]

In 1916, it was comprised of assorted old torpedo boats of classes "A" through "D".[4]

Captains (D)

Date of appointment given:

  • Captain (Acting) P. A. Bateman-Champain, 3 May, 1912.[5]

Footnotes

  1. March. British Destroyers. p. 164.
  2. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 109 of 10 July, 1914.
  3. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 109 of 10 July, 1914.
  4. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916. p. 87.
  5. Navy List (December, 1916). p. 398t.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
  • March, Edgar J. (1966). British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892-1953. London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited. (on Bookfinder.com).

See Also


British Destroyer Flotillas
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth | Tenth
Eleventh | Twelfth | Thirteenth | Fourteenth | Fifteenth | Sixteenth | Seventeenth | Eighteenth | Nineteenth
Twentieth | Twenty-first
Local Defence Flotillas
Clyde | Devonport | Devonport & Falmouth | Falmouth | Firth of Forth | Gibraltar
Liverpool | Mersey | Newhaven | Nore | North Channel | Milford & Pembroke | Pembroke
Portland | Portsmouth | Queenstown

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