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H.M.S. Salmon (1895)
Builder: Earle[1]
Ordered: 1893-94[2]
Laid down: 12 Mar, 1894[3]
Launched: 15 Jan, 1895[4]
Commissioned: 14 Jan, 1896[5]
Broken up: 1912[6]

H.M.S. Salmon was one of forty-two "A" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "27 knotter".

Service

Like many "A" class ships, she was broken up before the war.

Fittings and Performance

Lionel Dawson wrote of his experiences in command of the destroyer.[7]

Like many of her class, the helm was situated behind the platform for the 12-pdr gun, with the helmsman peering ahead through a small gap under the platform and over the foredeck. It was very hard to see. The common workaround was to construct a new wheel on the gun platform and connect it below by shafts and screws. In Salmon, this wheel was actually a training wheel for a 4.7-in gun, and it required 32 revolutions to move the rudder from hard port to hard starboard. Vexingly, the action of this wheel was the opposite to what a ship's wheel ordinarily delivered.

Her eight boilers seemed to be more than enough for her. Dawson's engineer would joke and say that "the last two or three [boilers] only made the deck hot, since the engines could not take up the steam from them."

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 92.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 92.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 92.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 92.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 260.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 92.
  7. ↑ Dawson. Flotillas. pp. 86-87.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 260.
  9. ↑ Hawksley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 289.
  10. ↑ Hawksley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 289.
  11. ↑ West Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/249. f. 384.
  12. ↑ West Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/249. f. 384.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1903). p. 301a.
  14. ↑ Noble Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/248. f. 282.
  15. ↑ White Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/373. f. 422.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1904). p. 374.
  17. ↑ White Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/373. f. 422.
  18. ↑ Monroe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 438.
  19. ↑ Monroe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 438.
  20. ↑ Carter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/301. f. 340.
  21. ↑ Carter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/301. f. 340.
  22. ↑ Thomas Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/272. f. 307.
  23. ↑ Thomas Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/272. f. 307.
  24. ↑ Hemans Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/47/151. f. 356.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 371.
  26. ↑ Hemans Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/47/151. f. 356.
  27. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1909). p. 371.
  28. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 371.
  29. ↑ The Monthly Navy List. (March, 1911). p. 371.
  30. ↑ Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 208.
  31. ↑ Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 208.

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