H.M.S. Fawn (1897)

H.M.S. Fawn (1897)
Pendant Number:	P.94 (1914) D.55 (Sep 1915) D.38 (Jan 1918) H.38 (Sep 1918)
Builder:	Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Ordered:	1896-97 Programme
Laid down:	5 Sep, 1896
Launched:	13 Apr, 1897
Commissioned:	Dec, 1898
Broken up:	1919

H.M.S. Fawn was one of forty "C" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "30 knotter".

Service

She was to be commissioned at Portsmouth on 2 April, 1902 for service on the Mediterranean Station, as tender to Orion, replacing the "A" Class destroyer Conflict.

In mid-1913, she was with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant Alan C. Bruce, 26 October, 1899 – 23 November, 1899
• Lieutenant & Commander Robert W. Dalgety, 22 October, 1899 – 15 January, 1901
• Lieutenant & Commander Christopher P. Metcalfe, 15 January, 1901 – 14 March, 1901
• Lieutenant & Commander Henry W. Osburn, 27 August, 1901 – 16 October, 1901
• Lieutenant & Commander Robert W. Myburgh, 2 April, 1902 – mid June, 1902^[Inference]
• Lieutenant & Commander Bertram O. F. Phibbs, 14 June, 1902 – 1902
• Lieutenant & Commander Bertram O. F. Phibbs, late 1902 – 21 December, 1903
• Lieutenant & Commander Albert M. H. Phillips, 21 December, 1903 – 2 March, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Morris E. Cochrane, 28 March, 1905 – 10 April, 1905
• Lieutenant in Command Reginald St. P. Parry, 19 September, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Albert M. H. Phillips, 10 January, 1906 – 20 February, 1906
• Lieutenant in Command Anselan J. B. Stirling, 20 February, 1906 – 10 April, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander Herbert M. Denny, 10 April, 1906 – 22 September, 1908
• Lieutenant in Command Hubert S. Monroe, 24 September, 1908 – 8 January, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander George F. A. Mulock, 16 January, 1909 – 8 July, 1909  (sick)
• Lieutenant & Commander Hugh T. England, 15 June, 1909 – 31 December, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander Montague G. B. Legge, 1 January, 1910 – 23 August, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Adrian St. V. Keyes, November, 1910 – 7 May, 1911
• Lieutenant-Commander Wilfrid W. Hunt, June, 1911 – 31 August, 1912
• Lieutenant in Command Laurence R. Palmer, 31 August, 1912 – 3 November, 1912
• Lieutenant & Commander Herbert E. W. C. Whyte, 18 December, 1912 – 1 April, 1913  (and for charge of reduced T.B.Ds.)
• Lieutenant-Commander Gerald C. Harrison, 1 April, 1913 – 29 August, 1913  (and for charge of reduced T.B.Ds.)
• Lieutenant in Command Harold C. Woollcombe-Boyce, 29 July, 1914
• Lieutenant in Command George N. Gilbertson, 9 April, 1915 – 20 April, 1915
• Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. John Willits, 1 August, 1916
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Francis Miners, 11 October, 1918

See Also

• Wikipedia