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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Forester''''' was one of twelve [[Forester Class Gunboat (1874)|''Forester'' Class gunboats]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
 
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Forester''''' was one of twelve [[Forester Class Gunboat (1874)|''Forester'' Class gunboats]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
  
 
==Service==
 
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Commissioned at Devonport on 15 January, 1878.{{NLDec81|p. 213}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Harry Dampier Law|nick=Harry D. Law|appt=1 January, 1890{{NLMar92|p. 221}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Sidney Glenton Smith|nick=Sidney G. Smith|appt=8 July, 1878{{NLOct78|p. 212}}|end=28 June, 1881|note=invalided, would die at Haslar on 25 August}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Frank Archdall Harston|nick=Frank A. Harston|appt=20 July, 1881{{NLDec81|p. 213}}|end=31 January, 1882}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Amyand Haggard|nick=Amyand Haggard|appt=22 July, 1885{{NLFeb88|p. 208}}|end=1 September, 1888}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Harry Dampier Law|nick=Harry D. Law|appt=1 January, 1890{{NLMar92|p. 221}}|end=1 January, 1893}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Alexander Eckstein Stewart|nick=Alexander E. Stewart|appt=1 January, 1893|end=13 May, 1893}}
 
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Revision as of 10:18, 25 August 2019

H.M.S. Forester (1877)
Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding[1]
Launched: 26 Feb, 1877[Citation needed]
Commissioned: 15 Jan, 1878[2]
Sold: 1904[3]
H.M.S. Forester was one of twelve Forester Class gunboats completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commissioned at Devonport on 15 January, 1878.[4]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
  2. The Navy List. (October, 1878). p. 212.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
  4. The Navy List. (December, 1881). p. 213.
  5. The Navy List. (October, 1878). p. 212.
  6. The Navy List. (December, 1881). p. 213.
  7. The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 208.
  8. The Navy List. (March, 1892). p. 221.

Bibliography


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