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|name=Europa
 
|launch=20 Mar, 1897{{Conways1860|p. 68}}
 
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|builder=[[Thomson]], Clydebank{{Conways1860|p. 68}}
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|builder=[[J. & G. Thomson]], Clydebank{{Conways1860|p. 68}}
 
|laid=10 Jan, 1896{{Conways1860|p. 68}}
 
|laid=10 Jan, 1896{{Conways1860|p. 68}}
 
|fate=Sold
 
|fate=Sold
 
|pend=P.06 (1914)<br>P.91 (Jan 1918){{DittColl|p. 40}}
 
|pend=P.06 (1914)<br>P.91 (Jan 1918){{DittColl|p. 40}}
 
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'''H.M.S. ''Europa''''' was one of eight [[Diadem Class Cruiser (1896)|''Diadem'' class]] protected cruisers completed for the [[Royal Navy]] near the beginning of the twentieth century.
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==Service==
 
==Service==
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She recommissioned at Portsmouth on 8 May, 1913 to serve with the Third Fleet.{{NLJul13|p. 309}}
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''Europa'' was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 8 May, 1913 to serve with the Third Fleet.{{NLJul13|p. 309}}
  
 
She paid off at Malta on 27 March, 1920.{{NLJul20|p. 770-1}}
 
She paid off at Malta on 27 March, 1920.{{NLJul20|p. 770-1}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Maurice Woollcombe|nick=Maurice Woollcombe|appt=1 August, 1908{{NLJan10|p. 310}}<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 504.</ref>|note=and for command of Special Reserve ships at Devonport|end=1 April, 1910<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 504.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Maurice Woollcombe|nick=Maurice Woollcombe|appt=1 August, 1908{{NLJan10|p. 310}}<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 504.</ref>|note=and for command of Special Reserve ships at Devonport|end=1 April, 1910<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 504.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Gerald Charles Adolphe Marescaux|nick=Gerald C. A. Marescaux|appt=28 February, 1910<ref>Marescaux Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 859.</ref>|note=and for command of a group of special service cruisers at Devonport}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Gerald Charles Adolphe Marescaux|nick=Gerald C. A. Marescaux|appt=28 February, 1910<ref>Marescaux Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 859.</ref>|note=and for command of a group of special service cruisers at Devonport}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Luxmoore|nick=Henry Luxmoore|appt=November, 1911|end=15 February, 1912}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Harry Louis d'Estoteville Skipwith|nick=Harry L. d'E. Skipwith|appt=4 March, 1912<ref>Skipwith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 255.</ref>|end=21 May, 1912<ref>Skipwith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 255.</ref>|note=trooping}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Harry Louis d'Estoteville Skipwith|nick=Harry L. d'E. Skipwith|appt=4 March, 1912<ref>Skipwith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 255.</ref>|end=21 May, 1912<ref>Skipwith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 255.</ref>|note=trooping}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler|nick=Herbert A. S. Fyler|appt=29 June, 1912<ref>Fyler Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/155.|D7602098}}  f. 182.</ref>|end=3 August, 1912<ref>Fyler Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42/155.|D7602098}}  f. 182.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Wyndham Lerrier Bamber|nick=Wyndham L. Bamber|appt=21 May, 1912{{NLAug12|p. 309}}|end=4 February, 1913}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Luxmoore|nick=Henry Luxmoore|appt=25 February, 1913|end=2 May, 1913}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Bertram Sutton Evans|nick=Bertram S. Evans|appt=2 May, 1913<ref>Evans Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/266.}} f. 296.</ref>|end=5 August, 1913<ref>Evans Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/266.}} f. 296.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Bertram Sutton Evans|nick=Bertram S. Evans|appt=2 May, 1913<ref>Evans Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/266.}} f. 296.</ref>|end=5 August, 1913<ref>Evans Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/266.}} f. 296.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Thomas Drummond Gilbert|nick=Thomas D. Pratt|appt=15 July, 1913<ref>Gilbert Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 19643/164.|D7576537}} ff. 164, 248.</ref>|end=22 October, 1913<ref>Gilbert Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 19643/164.|D7576537}} ff. 164, 248.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Thomas Drummond Gilbert|nick=Thomas D. Pratt|appt=15 July, 1913<ref>Gilbert Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 19643/164.|D7576537}} ff. 164, 248.</ref>|end=22 October, 1913<ref>Gilbert Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 19643/164.|D7576537}} ff. 164, 248.</ref>|note=for manoeuvres}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Hugh Gaultier-Coghill Somerville|nick=Hugh G-C. Somerville|appt=29 October, 1914<ref>Somerville Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/361.|D7576559}} f. 361.</ref>{{NLApr15|p. 394}}|ass=19 November, 1914<ref>Somerville Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/361.|D7576559}} f. 361.</ref>|end=4 June, 1915<ref>Somerville Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/361.|D7576559}} f. 361.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Hugh Gaultier-Coghill Somerville|nick=Hugh G-C. Somerville|appt=29 October, 1914<ref>Somerville Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/361.|D7576559}} f. 361.</ref>{{NLApr15|p. 394}}|ass=19 November, 1914<ref>Somerville Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/361.|D7576559}} f. 361.</ref>|end=4 June, 1915<ref>Somerville Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/361.|D7576559}} f. 361.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Maurice Swynfen FitzMaurice|nick=Maurice S. FitzMaurice|appt=15 June, 1915<ref>FitzMaurice Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D8112203}} f. 148.</ref>|end=31 August, 1915<ref>FitzMaurice Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D8112203}} f. 148.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Maurice Swynfen FitzMaurice|nick=Maurice S. FitzMaurice|appt=15 June, 1915<ref>FitzMaurice Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D8112203}} f. 148.</ref>|end=31 August, 1915<ref>FitzMaurice Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D8112203}} f. 148.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Edmund Drummond|nick=John E. Drummond|appt=7 September, 1915{{NLDec16|p. 394''g''}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Edmund Drummond|nick=John E. Drummond|appt=7 September, 1915{{NLDec16|p. 394''g''}}|end=|note=and as Flag Captain}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting Captain|name=Harold Escombe|nick=Harold Escombe|appt=20 July, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 393''o''}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting Captain|name=Harold Escombe|nick=Harold Escombe|appt=20 July, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 393''o''}}|end=31 March, 1918|note=and as Flag Captain}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Claude Alwin Rombulow-Pearse|nick=Claude A. Rombulow-Pearse|appt=31 March, 1918{{NLDec18|p. 789}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Claude Alwin Rombulow-Pearse|nick=Claude A. Rombulow-Pearse|appt=31 March, 1918{{NLDec18|p. 789}}|end=12 November, 1918}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Michael Henley Wilding|nick=Michael H. Wilding|appt=1 March, 1919{{NLMar20|p. 771}}|end=27 March, 1919<ref>Inferred that he was still in command when she paid off on this date.</ref>|succBy=Vessel Paid Off for Sale}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Michael Henley Wilding|nick=Michael H. Wilding|appt=1 March, 1919{{NLMar20|p. 771}}|end=c. October, 1920|note=left when ''Europa'' paid off}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Herbert Gerald Briggs|nick=Herbert Gerald Briggs|appt=17 March, 1919|end=c. April, 1919{{FC}}|note=temporary, during Wilding's illness}}
 
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* [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-05-HMS_Europa.htm Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net]
 
* [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-05-HMS_Europa.htm Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net]
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Europa_(1897)}}
 
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Latest revision as of 10:05, 9 December 2021

H.M.S. Europa (1897)
Pendant Number: P.06 (1914)
P.91 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: J. & G. Thomson, Clydebank[2]
Ordered: 1895-96 Programme[3]
Laid down: 10 Jan, 1896[4]
Launched: 20 Mar, 1897[5]
Commissioned: 23 Nov, 1899[6]
Sold: 15 Sep, 1920[7]
Fate: Foundered, raised, scrapped[8]

H.M.S. Europa was one of eight Diadem class protected cruisers completed for the Royal Navy near the beginning of the twentieth century.

Service

Europa was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 8 May, 1913 to serve with the Third Fleet.[9]

She paid off at Malta on 27 March, 1920.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 40.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 68.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 68.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 68.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 68.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 68.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 40.
  8. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 68.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 309.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1920). p. 770-1.
  11. ↑ Henderson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 615.
  12. ↑ Henderson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 615.
  13. ↑ Pocklington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1049.
  14. ↑ Pocklington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1049.
  15. ↑ Horsley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 47/92.
  16. ↑ Horsley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 47/92.
  17. ↑ Ommanney Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 154.
  18. ↑ Ommanney Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 154.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1905). p. 309.
  20. ↑ Marescaux Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 579.
  21. ↑ Marescaux Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 579.
  22. ↑ Kemp Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 420.
  23. ↑ Kemp Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 420.
  24. ↑ Morgan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 323.
  25. ↑ Morgan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 323.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 310.
  27. ↑ Woollcombe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 504.
  28. ↑ Woollcombe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 504.
  29. ↑ Marescaux Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 859.
  30. ↑ Skipwith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 255.
  31. ↑ Skipwith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 255.
  32. ↑ Fyler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/155. f. 182.
  33. ↑ Fyler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/155. f. 182.
  34. ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 309.
  35. ↑ Evans Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/266. f. 296.
  36. ↑ Evans Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/266. f. 296.
  37. ↑ Gilbert Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 19643/164. ff. 164, 248.
  38. ↑ Gilbert Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 19643/164. ff. 164, 248.
  39. ↑ Johnson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/424. f. 506.
  40. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1914). p. 310.
  41. ↑ Johnson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/424. f. 506.
  42. ↑ Vivian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 63.
  43. ↑ Vivian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 63.
  44. ↑ Somerville Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/361. f. 361.
  45. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 394.
  46. ↑ Somerville Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/361. f. 361.
  47. ↑ FitzMaurice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 148.
  48. ↑ FitzMaurice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 148.
  49. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 394g.
  50. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 393o.
  51. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 789.
  52. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1920). p. 771.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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