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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Hedworth Meux|nick=The Hon. Hedworth Lambton|appt=8 June, 1897<ref>Meux Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 774.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Frederick St. George Rich|nick=Frederick St. G. Rich|appt=3 January, 1905<ref>Rich Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 1102.</ref>}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Lionel Halsey|nick=Lionel Halsey|appt=26 August, 1905<ref>Halsey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7576543}}  f. 243.</ref>|end=1 January, 1908<ref>Halsey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7576543}}  f. 243.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cecil Irby Prowse|nick=Cecil I. Prowse|appt=1 January, 1908<ref>Prowse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 423.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cecil Irby Prowse|nick=Cecil I. Prowse|appt=1 January, 1908<ref>Prowse Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 423.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edward Francis Bruen|nick=Edward F. Bruen|appt=31 December, 1910<ref>Bruen Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 418.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Edward Francis Bruen|nick=Edward F. Bruen|appt=31 December, 1910<ref>Bruen Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 418.</ref>}}

Revision as of 17:09, 17 February 2015

H.M.S. Powerful (1895)
Builder: Vickers, Barrow[1]
Laid down: Feb, 1894
Launched: 24 Jul, 1895[2]
Commissioned: 8 Jun, 1897[3]
Sold: 31 Aug, 1929[4]
Fate: Scrapped

Service

In 1910, Powerful was the best gunnery ship of the eight tested of the Australia Station, scoring 55.65 versus the average 35.455.[5]

In mid-1913, she was in Devonport, attached to the training ship Impregnable.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 67.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 67.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 67.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 323.
  5. ↑ The National Archives. ADM 1/8328, p. 4.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 357.
  7. ↑ Meux Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 774.
  8. ↑ Rich Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1102.
  9. ↑ Halsey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 243.
  10. ↑ Halsey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 243.
  11. ↑ Prowse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 423.
  12. ↑ Bruen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 418.
  13. ↑ Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 86.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.



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