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Revision as of 10:56, 19 May 2014

H.M.S. Russell (1901)
Pendant Number: 23 (1914)[1]
Builder: Palmers[2]
Ordered: 1898 Supplemental Programme[3]
Laid down: 11 Mar, 1899[4]
Launched: 19 Feb, 1901[5]
Commissioned: 19 Feb, 1903
Mined: 27 Apr, 1916[6]
Fate: off Malta[7]

Completed in 1903, H.M.S. Russell was the first of six battleships of her class to be commissioned.

Service

Russell was launched at Jarrow-on-Tyne on 19 February, 1901, by Mrs. McLaren, wife of Charles McLaren, chairman of the Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company.[8]

Russell commissioned at Chatham on 19 February, 1903, under Captain Alfred L. Winsloe, to relieve the Canopus in the Mediterranean.[9]

She recommissioned at Sheerness on 13 August, 1912.[10] She served in the Fourth Battle Squadron in 1913.[11]

At the end of 1913, Russell was serving as flagship to Rear-Admiral in the Home Fleets at the Nore.[12]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 30.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 30.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 37.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 37.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 30.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 30.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 30.
  8. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 20 February, 1901. Issue 36383, col F, p. 11.
  9. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Friday, 20 February, 1903. Issue 37009, col D, p. 8.
  10. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 369.
  11. The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 369.
  12. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 722 of 12 Dec, 1913.
  13. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 9 February, 1903. Issue 36999, col E, p. 8.
  14. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  15. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  16. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  17. Ricardo Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 464.
  18. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  19. Nicholson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 291.
  20. Smith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 312.
  21. "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Friday, 21 February, 1913. Issue 40141, col D, p. 4.
  22. The Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 378a.

Bibliography


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