H.M.S. Medusa (1915)

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H.M.S. Medusa (1915)
Pendant Number: H.90 (Sep 1915)[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Launched: 27 Mar, 1915[3]
Completed: Jul, 1915[4]
Collision: 25 Mar, 1916[5]
Fate: w/ Laverock

H.M.S. Medusa was one of four Medea class destroyers laid down for the Greek Navy but completed for the Royal Navy. She was lost to a collision in March of 1916.

In 1925, the monitor H.M.S. M.29 was renamed Medusa.

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 68.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 78.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 78.
  4. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 309.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 68.
  6. Hemans Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/47/151. f. 356.
  7. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 396.
  8. Hemans Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/47/151. f. 356.

Bibliography


Medea Class Destroyer
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