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'''H.M.S. ''Broke''''' was one of four [[Faulknor Class Flotilla Leader (1914)|''Faulknor'' class]] flotilla leaders.
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'''H.M.S. ''Broke''''' was one of four [[Faulknor Class Flotilla Leader (1914)|''Faulknor'' class]] flotilla leaders.  Returned to Chile in 1920, there would be another leader {{UK-Broke|f=p}} commissioned in the 1920s.
  
 
==Service==
 
==Service==
In September 1914, it was decided that {{UK-Broke}} should join the {{UK-DF|2}} as the half-flotilla leader and be fitted with a [[Wireless Telegraphy Apparatus Mark II|Mark II W/T set]], longer mast, No. 2 set of flags and two additional signal ratings.{{GFConferences1914|p. 104}}
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|colspan=4 align=center|'''H.M.S. ''Broke'' after Battle of Jutland'''
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|[[File:BrokeRangefinder 1-3June1916.jpg|180px|Destroyed Rangefinder]]||[[File:BrokeMastOverSide 1-3June1916.jpg|180px|Mast overboard]]||[[File:BrokeForeBridge ArthurLeePictonOnLeft 1-3June1916.jpg|180px|Fore Bridge]]||[[File:BrokeUpperDeck 1-3June1916.jpg|180px|Upper Deck]]
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In September 1914, it was decided that ''Broke'' should join the {{UK-DF|2}} as the half-flotilla leader and be fitted with a [[Wireless Telegraphy Apparatus Mark II|Mark II W/T set]], longer mast, No. 2 set of flags and two additional signal ratings.{{GFConferences1914|p. 104}}
  
At the [[Battle of Jutland]], she was the 2nd in command of the {{UK-DF|4}}.{{UKJutlandOD|p. 34}}
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At the [[Battle of Jutland]], she was the second in command of the {{UK-DF|4}}, leading the second half-flotilla.{{UKJutlandOD|p. 34}} ''Broke'' collided with {{UK-1Sparrowhawk}} after attempting to fire her second torpedo at a cruiser.  In the end, ''Broke'' suffered 42 men killed, 6 missing, 14 severely wounded and 20 slightly wounded and wound up with twenty-three of {{UK-1Sparrowhawk}}'s men on her foredeck, some having jumped there in the belief that ''Broke'' was the more viable ship and others having fallen there in the collision.
  
 
Just after midnight on the night of 20-21 April, 1917, ''Broke'' and {{UK-Swift}} intercepted six German destroyers returning from a bombardment of Dover, sparking a brief and intense night action, the [[Second Battle of Dover Strait]].  The British attempted to ram the onrushing enemy.  {{UK-Swift}} missed, but ''Broke'' connected with {{DE-G42}} as she fired on the German destroyer.  A German torpedo found her, however, though she remained afloat with help from {{UK-Swift}}.{{HardLying|pp. 104-5}}
 
Just after midnight on the night of 20-21 April, 1917, ''Broke'' and {{UK-Swift}} intercepted six German destroyers returning from a bombardment of Dover, sparking a brief and intense night action, the [[Second Battle of Dover Strait]].  The British attempted to ram the onrushing enemy.  {{UK-Swift}} missed, but ''Broke'' connected with {{DE-G42}} as she fired on the German destroyer.  A German torpedo found her, however, though she remained afloat with help from {{UK-Swift}}.{{HardLying|pp. 104-5}}
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''Broke'' was reduced to a C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.{{NLJun20|p. 736}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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* {{CommRN}} [[Walter Lingen Allen|Walter L. Allen]], in command at the [[Battle of Jutland]]{{UKJutlandOD|p. 44}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Donnison Roper|nick=Charles D. Roper|appt=9 October, 1914<ref>Roper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/151.|D7602937}} f. 169.</ref>{{NLApr15|p. 392''n''}}|end=25 July, 1915<ref>Roper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/151.|D7602937}} f. 169.</ref>|ass=24 November, 1914<ref>Roper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/151.|D7602937}} f. 169.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
* Commander [[Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, First Baron Mountevans|Edward R. G. R. Evans]], in command at the [[Second Battle of Dover Strait]] on 20 April, 1917.{{HardLying|p. 104}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Harold Ernest Sulivan|nick=Harold E. Sulivan|appt=25 July, 1915<ref>Sulivan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/250.|D7603035}} f. 283.</ref>|end=21 August, 1915<ref>Sulivan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/250.|D7603035}} f. 283.</ref>}}
* {{LieutRN}} [[Morgan John Yeatman|Morgan J. Yeatman]], 18 January, 1919.<ref>''The Navy List'' (February, 1919).  p. 746.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Walter Lingen Allen|nick=Walter L. Allen|appt=21 August, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 392''n''}}<ref>Allen Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D7603032}} f. 280.</ref>|end=10 June, 1916<ref>Allen Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D7603032}} f. 280.</ref>|note=in command at [[Battle of Jutland]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Oliver Gladstone|nick=Edward O. Gladstone|appt=30 June, 1916<ref>Gladstone Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/129.|D7602915}} f. 144.</ref>{{NLDec16|p. 392''q''}}|end=November, 1916<ref>Gladstone Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/129.|D7602915}} f. 144.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D), {{UK-DF|11}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Commander|name=Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, First Baron Mountevans|nick=Edward R. G. R. Evans|appt=December, 1916{{NLNov17|p. 391''y''}}|note=in command during [[Second Battle of Dover Strait]]|end=25 October, 1917<ref>Month name given as "X" in Evans Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 40.</ref>}}
==Performance==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Bertram Home Ramsay|nick=Bertram H. Ramsay|appt=25 October, 1917{{NLJan19|p. 746}}|end=15 January, 1919}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Gerard Laurence Oliphant|nick=Henry G. L. Oliphant|appt=17 January, 1919<ref>Oliphant Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/83.|D7603335}} f. 83.</ref>|end=17 March, 1919<ref>Oliphant Service Record{{TNA|ADM 196/45/83.|D7603335}} f. 83.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Geoffrey Corlett|nick=Geoffrey Corlett|appt=1 May, 1919<ref>Corlett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47/47.|D7603754}} f. 252.</ref>{{NLJun19|p. 746}}|end=17 October, 1919<ref>Corlett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47/47.|D7603754}} f. 252.</ref>|note=and for charge of a group of T.B.Ds.}}
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==Armament==
 
==Armament==
  
 
===4-in and 6-in Guns===
 
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===Torpedoes===
 
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The ship was equipped with Service single revolving tubes and used side-lug torpedoes.
 
The ship was equipped with Service single revolving tubes and used side-lug torpedoes.
At outbreak of war, one Weymouth Mark III* (then being tested) and six Weymouth Mark II (then being intended for Japanese purchase) were given to ''Broke''.  The Mark II torpedoes had settings for 38 knots to 3,500 metres and 25 knots to 10,000 metres.{{ARTS1914|pp. 10-12, 15}}
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At outbreak of war, one 21-in Weymouth Mark III* (then being tested) and six Weymouth Mark II (then being intended for Japanese purchase) were given to ''Broke''.  The Mark II torpedoes had settings for 38 knots to 3,500 metres and 25 knots to 10,000 metres.{{ARTS1914|pp. 10-12, 15}}
 
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Revision as of 14:19, 6 April 2018

H.M.S. Broke (1914)
Pendant Number: H.98 (1914)
H.23 (Jan 1918)
D.10 (Sep 1918)[1]
Builder: J. Samuel White[2]
Launched: 25 May, 1914[3]
To Chile: May, 1920[4]

H.M.S. Broke was one of four Faulknor class flotilla leaders. Returned to Chile in 1920, there would be another leader H.M.S. Broke commissioned in the 1920s.

Service

H.M.S. Broke after Battle of Jutland
Destroyed Rangefinder Mast overboard Fore Bridge Upper Deck
Destroyed Rangefinder Mast Overboard Fore Bridge Upper Deck

In September 1914, it was decided that Broke should join the Second Destroyer Flotilla as the half-flotilla leader and be fitted with a Mark II W/T set, longer mast, No. 2 set of flags and two additional signal ratings.[5]

At the Battle of Jutland, she was the second in command of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla, leading the second half-flotilla.[6] Broke collided with Sparrowhawk after attempting to fire her second torpedo at a cruiser. In the end, Broke suffered 42 men killed, 6 missing, 14 severely wounded and 20 slightly wounded and wound up with twenty-three of Sparrowhawk's men on her foredeck, some having jumped there in the belief that Broke was the more viable ship and others having fallen there in the collision.

Just after midnight on the night of 20-21 April, 1917, Broke and Swift intercepted six German destroyers returning from a bombardment of Dover, sparking a brief and intense night action, the Second Battle of Dover Strait. The British attempted to ram the onrushing enemy. Swift missed, but Broke connected with Template:DE-G42 as she fired on the German destroyer. A German torpedo found her, however, though she remained afloat with help from Swift.[7]

Broke was reduced to a C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

4-in and 6-in Guns

Torpedoes

21-in torpedoes

The ship was equipped with Service single revolving tubes and used side-lug torpedoes. At outbreak of war, one 21-in Weymouth Mark III* (then being tested) and six Weymouth Mark II (then being intended for Japanese purchase) were given to Broke. The Mark II torpedoes had settings for 38 knots to 3,500 metres and 25 knots to 10,000 metres.[28]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 65.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 78.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 78.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 65.
  5. Grand Fleet Conferences, 1914. p. 104.
  6. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 34.
  7. Smith. Hard Lying. pp. 104-5.
  8. The Navy List. (June, 1920). p. 736.
  9. Roper Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/151. f. 169.
  10. The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 392n.
  11. Roper Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/151. f. 169.
  12. Sulivan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 283.
  13. Sulivan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 283.
  14. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 392n.
  15. Allen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 280.
  16. Allen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 280.
  17. Gladstone Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/129. f. 144.
  18. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 392q.
  19. Gladstone Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/129. f. 144.
  20. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391y.
  21. Month name given as "X" in Evans Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 40.
  22. The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 746.
  23. Oliphant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/83. f. 83.
  24. Oliphant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/83. f. 83.
  25. Corlett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/47. f. 252.
  26. The Navy List. (June, 1919). p. 746.
  27. Corlett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/47. f. 252.
  28. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1914. pp. 10-12, 15.

Bibliography

  • March, Edgar J. (1966). British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892-1953. London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited. (on Bookfinder.com).


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