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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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Revision as of 10:08, 19 May 2014

H.M.S. Ambuscade (1913)
Pendant Number: H.62 (1914)
H.05 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown[2]
Launched: 25 Jan, 1913[3]
Sold: Sep, 1921[4]

H.M.S. Ambuscade was one of twenty destroyers of the Acasta class.

Service

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport 15 October, 1919.[5]

At the Battle of Jutland, she operated with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Gordon A. Coles.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  5. The Navy List (January, 1921), p. 726.
  6. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 273.
  8. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 729.

Bibliography


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