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Revision as of 17:49, 21 January 2015

H.M.S. Cheerful (1897)
Pendant Number: P.13 (1914)
D.49 (Sep 1915)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Ordered: 1896-97 Programme[3]
Laid down: 7 Sep, 1896[4]
Launched: 14 Jul, 1897[5]
Commissioned: Feb, 1900[6]
Mined: 30 Jun, 1917[7]
Fate: off the Shetlands[8]

H.M.S. Cheerful was one of forty destroyers of the "C" class — a "30 knotter".

Service

In mid-1913, she was home ported in Portland and serving in the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla.[9]

She was lost off the Shetlands[10] while serving with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla, a patrol flotilla.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 95.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  8. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 292.
  10. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  11. Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 385.
  12. Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 385.
  13. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 292.
  14. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 392s.

Bibliography


"C" Class Destroyer
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Flying Fish Fawn Flirt Bullfinch Dove
Violet Sylvia Lee Avon Bittern
Otter Leopard Vixen Brazen Electra
Recruit Vulture Kestrel Cheerful Mermaid
Greyhound Racehorse Roebuck Gipsy Fairy
Osprey Leven Falcon Ostrich Thorn
Tiger Vigilant Albatross Viper Velox
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