H.M.S. Hindustan (1903)

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H.M.S. Hindustan (1903)
Pendant Number: 62 (1914)
71 (Jan 1918)
N.67 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown[2]
Ordered: 1902-03 Programme[3]
Laid down: 25 Oct, 1902[4]
Launched: 19 Dec, 1903[5]
Commissioned: 22 Aug, 1905[6]
Sold: 9 May, 1921[7]
Fate: Broken up

H.M.S. Hindustan was one of eight King Edward VII class battleships.  She entered service in 1906 and spent most of her service in the Great War with a shifting roster of her sisters in the Third Battle Squadron.

Career

H.M.S. Hindustan was commissioned on 22 August, 1905.[8]

As part of the Channel Fleet, Hindustan started a refit in Portsmouth in August 1908, after Battle Practice.[9]

Hindustan was assigned to the Third Battle Squadron upon its creation in May, 1912 and remained with the Squadron until March, 1918 when she was detached for miscellaneous duties "in Home Waters or on detached service". In June, 1915, she had a single month where she served as the Squadron's flagship.[10]

Hindustan paid off on 14 May, 1918.[11]

In May, 1918, she was assigned to be an accommodation ship in Chatham-Sheerness.[12] In June, she was noted as "paid off".[13] In December, she was again providing accommodations.[14] She disappeared from the Navy List in May, 1919.

Radio

In 1908, the ship was one of just nine equipped with the "C" Tune Gear, capable of transmitting (only?) on "S", "U" and "W" tunes. It was to receive a Service Mark II set in 1909.[15]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 31.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 31.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 38.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 38.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 31.
  6. Parkes. British Battleships. p. 432.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 31.
  8. Parkes. British Battleships. p. 432.
  9. Report from Charles Beresford dated 10 April 1908 in Naval Policy - Strategy - Tactics: Miscellaneous papers from Private Office received by record office at The National Archives. ADM 116/942, unnumbered folio halfway within series.
  10. See Third Battle Squadron (Royal Navy) for details on her service in 3BS.
  11. The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 814.
  12. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (May, 1918). p. 19.
  13. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (June, 1918). p. 19.
  14. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 19.
  15. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1908. Wireless Appendix, p. 13.
  16. Wikipedia, citing London Gazette: no. 27863. p. 8899. 12 December 1905.
  17. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  18. The Navy List (October, 1908). p. 327.
  19. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  20. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  21. The Navy List (December, 1914). p. 331.
  22. The Navy List (December, 1916). p. 395e.
  23. The Navy List (November, 1917). p. 394k.

Bibliography

See Also


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