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| − | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Frederick Avenel Sommerville|nick=Frederick A. Sommerville|appt=27 April, 1912{{NLJan15|p. 268}}|end=August, 1915<ref>Sommerville Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/10.}} f. 413.</ref>|note=invalided}} | + | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Frederick Avenel Sommerville|nick=Frederick A. Sommerville|appt=27 April, 1912{{NLJan15|p. 268}}|end=August, 1915<ref>Sommerville Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/10.}} f. 413.</ref>|note=invalided|precBy=New Command}} |
{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CommRN}}|name=Charles Gordon Brodie|nick=Charles G. Brodie|appt=6 August, 1915{{NLDec16|p. 391''c''}}<ref>Brodie Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 600.</ref>|end=March, 1917<ref>Brodie Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 600.</ref>|note=and for duty with submarines}} | {{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CommRN}}|name=Charles Gordon Brodie|nick=Charles G. Brodie|appt=6 August, 1915{{NLDec16|p. 391''c''}}<ref>Brodie Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 600.</ref>|end=March, 1917<ref>Brodie Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 600.</ref>|note=and for duty with submarines}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Kenneth Mervyn Bruce|nick=Kenneth M. Bruce|appt=March, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 391''c''}}|note=and for command of submarine flotilla{{FC}}}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Kenneth Mervyn Bruce|nick=Kenneth M. Bruce|appt=March, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 391''c''}}|note=and for command of submarine flotilla{{FC}}}} | ||
Revision as of 18:37, 8 March 2016
| H.M.S. Adamant (1911) | |
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| Pendant Number: | P.37 (1914) P.00 (Jan 1918)[1] |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird[2] |
| Launched: | 12 Jul, 1911[3] |
| Commissioned: | 27 Apr, 1912[4] |
| Sold: | 21 Sep, 1932[5] |
H.M.S. Adamant was completed to navy order as a depot ship.
Service
Adamant served with the Eighth Submarine Flotilla at Harwich in 1914 and 1915. She later worked with submarines in the Mediterranean.[6]
Captains
Dates of appointment given.
- Lieutenant-Commander Frederick A. Sommerville, 27 April, 1912[7] – August, 1915[8] (invalided)
- Acting Commander Charles G. Brodie, 6 August, 1915[9][10] – March, 1917[11] (and for duty with submarines)
- Commander Kenneth M. Bruce, March, 1917[12] (and for command of submarine flotilla[Fact Check])
- Commander Noel F. Laurence, March, 1919[13] (and for command of the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla)
- Commander Noel F. Laurence, 28 October, 1919[14] (and for command of the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla)
- Commander Robert B. Ramsay, 4 November, 1920[15]
- Commander Charles de Burgh, 11 February, 1922[16] (and for duty with submarines)
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 273.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 268.
- ↑ Sommerville Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/10. f. 413.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 391c.
- ↑ Brodie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 600.
- ↑ Brodie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 600.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391c.
- ↑ The Navy List. (September, 1919). p. 724.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 723.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 723.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 722.
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
