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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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* {{CaptRN}} [[Herbert Meade]], 19 May 1912,<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 321.</ref> in command at the [[Battle of Heligoland Bight]].<ref>[http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/despatches/tyrwhitt.html Tyrwhitt's Despatch]</ref>
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* {{CaptRN}} [[Herbert Meade]], 19 May 1912,<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 321.</ref> in command at the [[Battle of Heligoland Bight]].<ref>[http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/despatches/tyrwhitt.html Tyrwhitt's Despatch]</ref>
* {{CommRN}} [[Dashwood Fowler Moir]], 9 October, 1914,<ref>''The Navy List'' (January, 1915).  p. 324.</ref> in command at the [[Battle of Jutland]].{{UKJutlandOD|p. 46}}
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* {{CommRN}} [[Dashwood Fowler Moir]], 9 October, 1914,<ref>''The Navy List'' (January, 1915).  p. 324.</ref> in command at the [[Battle of Jutland]].{{UKJutlandOD|p. 46}}
* {{LieutRN}} in Command [[Guy Oakley Maund|Guy O. Maund]], 9 February, 1918.{{NLFeb19|p. 803}}
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* {{LieutRN}} in Command [[Guy Oakley Maund|Guy O. Maund]], 9 February, 1918.{{NLFeb19|p. 803}}
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 17:24, 28 April 2014

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]
Sold: 4 Nov, 1921[5]

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.[6]

Service

Commissioned along with Hydra on 8 June, 1912 at Portsmouth, for service with the First Destroyer Flotilla.[7]

In mid-1913, she was in the First Destroyer Flotilla.[8]

She fought at the Battle of Jutland as part of the First Destroyer Flotilla,[9] which was tasked with screening the Fifth Battle Squadron.

She reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport on 15 October, 1919.[10]

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. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  6. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. Wireless Appendix, p. 6.
  7. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 10 June, 1912. Issue 39921, col B, p. 4.
  8. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 320.
  9. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 34.
  10. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 781.
  11. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 321.
  12. Tyrwhitt's Despatch
  13. The Navy List (January, 1915). p. 324.
  14. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 46.
  15. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 803.

Bibliography


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