H.M.S. Badger (1911)
H.M.S. Badger (1911) | |
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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.
- Commander Charles A. Fremantle, 29 July, 1912[13][14] – after 1 June, 1916[15] (in command at Battle of Jutland)
- Commander Theodore E. J. Bigg, after 1 June, 1916[16] – 7 November, 1916[17]
- Commander Alan M. Yeats-Brown, 7 November, 1916[18][19] – 10 January, 1917[20]
- Commander Walter B. Compton, 10 January, 1917 – 26 February, 1917 (and for command of Portsmouth Escort Flotilla)
- Lieutenant-Commander (Emergency List) Conyngham C. Denison, 4 March, 1917[21] – 12 May, 1917[22]
- Lieutenant in Command Kenneth G. Ramsey, 12 May, 1917[23] – early 1918[Fact Check]
- Commander Geoffrey Corlett, 22 February, 1918[24][25] – 28 March, 1919[26]
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,[27] and almost immediately thereafter the initiative was to be extended to the destroyers of the First, Second and Fourth Destroyer Flotillas.[28] This system was apparently conceived by her captain, Charles Albert Fremantle.[29]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
- ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. Wireless Appendix, p. 6.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 282.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 36 of 19 June, 1914.
- ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 120.
- ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 46.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 729.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 280.
- ↑ Fremantle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 441.
- ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 46.
- ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 46.
- ↑ Bigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/9. f. 10.
- ↑ Yeats-Brown Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/265. f. 300.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 392i.
- ↑ Yeats-Brown Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/265. f. 300.
- ↑ Denison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/26. f. 184.
- ↑ Denison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/26. f. 184.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391o.
- ↑ Corlett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/47. f. 252.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 737.
- ↑ Corlett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/47. f. 252.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 441 of 2 Oct, 1914.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 441 of 6 Oct, 1914.
- ↑ Fremantle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 441.
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