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Revision as of 11:54, 2 June 2014

H.M.S. Contest (1913)
Pendant Number: H.63(1914)
H.28 (1917)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Launched: 7 Jan, 1913[3]
Torpedoed: 18 Sep, 1917[4]
Fate: by U 106[5]

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

Service

In mid-1913, she was serving with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla.[6]

At the Battle of Jutland, she operated with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Ernald G. H. Master.[7]

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. ↑ Uboat.net
  6. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913). p. 296.
  7. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1913). p. 298.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1914). p. 298.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 393c.
  11. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 44.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 393g.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 392r.

Bibliography


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