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'''H.M.S. ''Nicator''''' was one of 103 destroyers of the [["M" Class Destroyer (1914)|"M" class]].
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'''H.M.S. ''Nicator''''' was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the [["M" Class Destroyer (1914)|"M" class]] built for the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[Great War]].
  
 
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Jack Ernest Albert Mocatta|nick=Jack E. A. Mocatta|appt=April, 1916{{NLDec16|p. 396''ff''}}|note=in command at [[Battle of Jutland]]|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Edward Pender Usticke Pender|nick=Edward P. U. Pender|appt=15 September, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 395''y''}}<ref>Pender Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/143.|D8122764}} f. 834.</ref>|end=19 July, 1918<ref>Pender Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/143.|D8122764}} f. 834.</ref>|note=invalided out, finally}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Edward Pender Usticke Pender|nick=Edward P. U. Pender|appt=15 September, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 395''y''}}<ref>Pender Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/143.|D8122764}} f. 834.</ref>|end=19 July, 1918<ref>Pender Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/143.|D8122764}} f. 834.</ref>|note=invalided out, finally}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Cecil Ferdinand James Hammet|nick=Cecil F. J. Hammet|appt=19 July, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 853.  Given as 1917 in this edition, but clearly mistaken and correctly offered in, say, ''The Navy List'', (December, 1918)}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Maurice Arthur Brind|nick=Maurice A. Brind|appt=21 February, 1918<ref>Brind Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56.}} f. 36.</ref>|end=13 April, 1918<ref>Brind Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56.}} f. 36.</ref>|note=temporarily, while Pender is sick}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Milne Henderson|nick=John M. Henderson|appt=20 February, 1919<ref>Henderson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/133.|D7576701}} f. 135.</ref>|end=7 July, 1919<ref>Henderson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/133.|D7576701}} f. 135.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robert Wise Richardson|nick=Robert W. Richardson|appt=7 July, 1919|end=4 November, 1919}}
 
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Latest revision as of 10:47, 7 April 2018

H.M.S. Nicator (1916)
Pendant Number: G.55 (Sep 1915)
F.05 (Jan 1917)
H.A4 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: William Denny & Brothers[2]
Ordered: Feb 1915[3]
Launched: 3 Feb, 1916[4]
Completed: 15 Apr, 1916[5]
Sold:

H.M.S. Nicator was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the "M" class built for the Royal Navy during the Great War.

Service

In April, 1916 Nicator was assigned to the newly-created Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla.[6]

At the Battle of Jutland, she screened the First Battle Cruiser Squadron as one of twelve destroyers operating with the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla.[7][8]

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 66.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 79.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 66.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 79.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 309.
  6. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (April, 1916). p. 12.
  7. Naval Operations. Volume III. p. 430.
  8. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 34.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 816.
  10. The Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 395y.
  11. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 395y.
  12. Pender Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/143. f. 834.
  13. Pender Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/143. f. 834.
  14. Brind Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56. f. 36.
  15. Brind Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56. f. 36.
  16. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 853. Given as 1917 in this edition, but clearly mistaken and correctly offered in, say, The Navy List, (December, 1918).
  17. Henderson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/133. f. 135.
  18. Henderson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/133. f. 135.

Bibliography


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