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'''H.M.S. ''Plucky''''' was a prototype flatiron gunboat built for the [[Royal Navy]].
 
'''H.M.S. ''Plucky''''' was a prototype flatiron gunboat built for the [[Royal Navy]].
  
It was renamed '''H.M.S. ''Banterer''''' in June, 1915
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She was renamed '''H.M.S. ''Banterer''''' in June, 1915.  A new destroyer took the name {{UK-Plucky|f=p}} in mid-1916.
  
==Design and Construction==
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==Service==
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The three Devonport-based gunboats {{UK-1Scourge}}, ''Plucky'' and {{UK-2Bulldog}} were among the ships invited to participate in the Queen's naval Jubilee at Portsmouth in 1887.{{NMI|11 May 1887; p. 9}}
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''Banterer'' paid off at Devonport 13 December 1918.{{NLFeb29|p. 216}}
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==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=John Ernest Troyte Harper|nick=John E. T. Harper|appt=22 February, 1906|end=15 November, 1906<ref>Harper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 507.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=George Parish Ross|nick=George P. Ross|appt=15 November, 1906<ref>Ross Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 46.</ref>|end=4 June, 1907<ref>Ross Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}}  f. 46.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}} ('''N''')|name=Henry Evans Freke Aylmer|nick=Henry E. F. Aylmer|appt=4 January, 1910|end=1 August, 1911}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} ('''N''')|name=James Gordon Fraser|nick=James G. Fraser|appt=13 August, 1912<ref>Fraser Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47/7.|D7603714}}  f. ?.</ref>|end=11 December, 1912<ref>Fraser Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47/7.|D7603714}}  f. ?.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} ('''N''')|name=Alfred Fletcher Coplestone-Boughey|nick=Alfred F. Coplestone-Boughey|appt=10 March, 1914|end=July, 1914}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=George Leslie Harold Dean|nick=George L. H. Dean|appt=8 April, 1916{{NLOct16|p. 392''i''}}|end=24 February, 1918|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Banterer''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=John Wilson|nick=John Wilson|appt=19 February, 1918<ref>Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/82/1375.|C14636952}} f. 278.</ref>|end=27 January, 1919<ref>Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/82/1375.|C14636952}} f. 278.</ref>|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Banterer''}}
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 09:37, 21 September 2019

H.M.S. Plucky (1870)
Builder: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard[Citation needed]
Launched: 13 Jul, 1870[Citation needed]
Sold: 1928[1]

H.M.S. Plucky was a prototype flatiron gunboat built for the Royal Navy.

She was renamed H.M.S. Banterer in June, 1915. A new destroyer took the name H.M.S. Plucky in mid-1916.

Service

The three Devonport-based gunboats Scourge, Plucky and Bulldog were among the ships invited to participate in the Queen's naval Jubilee at Portsmouth in 1887.[2]

Banterer paid off at Devonport 13 December 1918.[3]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 111.
  2. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 11 May 1887; p. 9.
  3. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 216.
  4. Harper Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 507.
  5. Ross Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 46.
  6. Ross Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 46.
  7. Fraser Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/7. f. ?.
  8. Fraser Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/7. f. ?.
  9. The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 392i.
  10. Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/82/1375. f. 278.
  11. Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/82/1375. f. 278.

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