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*Captain [[Arthur David Ricardo|Arthur D. Ricardo]], 10 August, 1907.<ref>Ricardo Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 464.</ref>
 
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*Captain [[George Walter Smith|George W. Smith]], 3 March, 1911.<ref>Smith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 312.</ref>
 
*Captain [[George Walter Smith|George W. Smith]], 3 March, 1911.<ref>Smith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 312.</ref>

Revision as of 13:04, 31 July 2013

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. ↑ Smith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 312.
  20. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Friday, 21 February, 1913. Issue 40141, col D, p. 4.
  21. ↑ The Navy List (December, 1914). p. 378a.

Bibliography


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