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==Captains==
 
==Captains==

Revision as of 13:10, 2 September 2013

H.M.S. Loyal (1913)
Pendant Number: H.80 (1914)
H.63 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Denny[2]
Launched: 11 Nov, 1913[3]
Sold: Nov, 1921[4]

H.M.S. Loyal was one of 22 destroyers of the Laforey class.

Service

In 1917, she and sisters Lawford and Legion were converted to minelayers and operated along with the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla.

She reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport on 15 October, 1919.[5]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Alterations

In 1915 or 1916, she was one of sixteen light cruisers and destroyers to trial a Wise Pressure Telegraphy System Type B for torpedo control.[7]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 64.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 803.
  6. The Navy List (January, 1915). p. 351.
  7. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916. p. 30.

Bibliography


Laforey Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Llewellyn Lennox Loyal Legion Laforey
Lawford Louis Lydiard Laertes Lysander
  Lance Lookout  
White 2-Funnelled Type
  Laurel Liberty  
Yarrow 2-Funnelled Type
  Lark Landrail Laverock Linnet  
War Emergency Repeat "L" Class
  Lochinvar Lassoo Leonidas Lucifer  
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