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Revision as of 12:02, 26 September 2014

H.M.S. Hawke (1891)
Pendant Number: A9 (1914)[1]
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: 17 Jun, 1889[3]
Launched: 11 Mar, 1891[4]
Commissioned: 16 May, 1893[5]
Torpedoed: 15 Oct, 1914[6]
Fate: by U 9 in North Sea[7]

H.M.S. Hawke was one of nine protected cruisers of the Edgar class completed between 1893 and 1896, and the only one lost in the war.

Service

From at least mid-1913 through August 1914, she was with the Training Squadron in Queenstown.[8][9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 38.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 38.
  8. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 323.
  9. The Navy List (August, 1914), p. 322b.
  10. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 4 May, 1893. Issue 33942, col E, p. 6.
  11. Hamilton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 577.
  12. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  13. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  14. Warrender Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1384.
  15. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 28 June, 1905. Issue 37745, col F, p. 12.
  17. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  18. Wake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 125.
  19. Hill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 454.
  20. Hill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 454.
  21. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  22. Blunt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 109.
  23. The Navy List. (October, 1914). p. 327.

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).

See Also


Edgar Class First Class Protected Cruiser
Crescent Edgar Endymion Gibraltar Grafton
  Hawke Royal Arthur St. George Theseus  
<– Blake Class Major Cruisers (UK) Powerful Class –>