H.M.S. Contest (1913)

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H.M.S. Contest (1913)
Pendant Number: H.63(1914)
H.28 (1917)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Launched: 7 Jan, 1913[3]
Completed: Jun, 1913[4]
Torpedoed: 18 Sep, 1917[5]
Fate: by U 106[6]

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.[7]

At the Battle of Jutland, she operated with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Ernald G. H. Master.[8]

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. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 307.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  6. Uboat.net
  7. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 296.
  8. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
  9. Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
  10. The Navy List. (November, 1913). p. 298.
  11. Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
  12. The Navy List. (February, 1914). p. 298.
  13. Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
  14. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 393c.
  15. Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250. Month could possibly be January
  16. Master Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/316. f. ?.
  17. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 395z.
  18. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 393g.
  19. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 392r.
  20. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 103.

Bibliography


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