H.M.S. Badger (1911)

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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]
Completed: Aug, 1912[5]
Sold: 9 May, 1921[6]

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

Radio

She was one of 18 Acheron class destroyers fitted with W/T in 1912, becoming one of 123 destroyers so far fitted with Destroyer Sets.[7]

Service

In July 1913, Badger was serving with the First Destroyer Flotilla.[8]

In June 1914, planned alterations in Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, when the ship was presumably serving with the First Destroyer Flotilla were to be deferred:[9]

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

On 29 October 1914, Badger was patrolling near the Terschelling Lightship for U-boats with the 2nd Division of the First Flotilla and located and rammed U 19. She only damaged the U-boat, but her stem collapsed back to the first bulkhead, prompting a strengthening of the bows of her class.[10]

She fought at the Battle of Jutland under Commander Charles A. Fremantle as part of the First Destroyer Flotilla,[11] which was tasked with screening the Fifth Battle Squadron. It fell upon her to look for survivors of the Invincible.

Reduced to a C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.[12]

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,[18] and almost immediately thereafter the initiative was to be extended to the destroyers of the First, Second and Fourth Destroyer Flotillas.[19]

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. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  7. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. Wireless Appendix, p. 6.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 282.
  9. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 36 of 19 June, 1914.
  10. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 120.
  11. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 46.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 729.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 280.
  14. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 46.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 392i.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391o.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 737.
  18. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 441 of 2 Oct, 1914.
  19. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 441 of 6 Oct, 1914.

Bibliography


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