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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Herbert Meade|nick=Herbert Meade|appt=19 May, 1912{{NLOct14|p. 324}}<ref>Meade Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 177.</ref>|end=6 October, 1914<ref>Meade Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 177.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Dashwood Fowler Moir|nick=Dashwood F. Moir|appt=9 October, 1914{{NLOct15|p. 394''j''}}|note=in command at [[Battle of Jutland]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Dashwood Fowler Moir|nick=Dashwood F. Moir|appt=9 October, 1914{{NLOct15|p. 394''j''}}<ref>Moir Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/232.|D7603484}} f. 236.</ref>|end=May, 1916<ref>Moir Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/232.|D7603484}} f. 236.</ref>|note=in command at [[Battle of Jutland]] despite dates given here}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Herbert Knowles|nick=George H. Knowles|appt=May, 1916{{NLDec16|p. 394''s''}}|end=January, 1917{{INF}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Herbert Knowles|nick=George H. Knowles|appt=May, 1916{{NLDec16|p. 394''s''}}|end=January, 1917{{INF}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Arthur Madryll Cheere Stileman|nick=Arthur M. C. Stileman|appt=28 January, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 394''b''}}|end=early 1918{{INF}}}}
 
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Revision as of 15:01, 8 June 2016

H.M.S. Goshawk (1911)
Pendant Number: H.45 (1914)
H.37 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Beardmore[2]
Ordered: 1910-11 Programme[3]
Launched: 18 Oct, 1911[4]
Completed: Jun, 1912[5]
Sold: 4 Nov, 1921[6]

H.M.S. Goshawk was one of 29 destroyers of the Acheron class.

Radio

She was one of 18 Acheron class destroyers fitted with W/T in 1912, becoming one of 123 destroyers so far fitted with Destroyer Sets.[7]

Service

Commissioned along with Hydra on 8 June, 1912 at Portsmouth, for service with the First Destroyer Flotilla.[8]

In mid-1913, she was in the First Destroyer Flotilla.[9]

Herbert Meade was in command when she fought at the Battle of Heligoland Bight.[10]

She fought under the command of Dashwood F. Moir at the Battle of Jutland as part of the First Destroyer Flotilla,[11] which was tasked with screening the Fifth Battle Squadron.

She reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport on 15 October, 1919.[12]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  7. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. Wireless Appendix, p. 6.
  8. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 10 June, 1912. Issue 39921, col B, p. 4.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 320.
  10. Tyrwhitt's Despatch
  11. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 46.
  12. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 781.
  13. The Navy List. (October, 1914). p. 324.
  14. Meade Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 177.
  15. Meade Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 177.
  16. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 394j.
  17. Moir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/232. f. 236.
  18. Moir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/232. f. 236.
  19. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 394s.
  20. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 394b.
  21. The Navy List. (July, 1919). p. 804.
  22. The Navy List. (September, 1919). p. 804.

Bibliography


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