H.M.S. Scourge (1910)

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H.M.S. Scourge (1910)
Pendant Number: D.96 (Feb 1915)
H.8A (Oct 1918)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Ordered: 1908-09 Programme[3]
Launched: 11 Feb, 1910[4]
Sold: May, 1921[5]

H.M.S. Scourge was one of sixteen destroyers of the Beagle class.

Service

In mid-1913, she was operating with Third Destroyer Flotilla.[6]

Lieutenant-Commander Henry de B. Tupper commanded her while she covered the landings at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli.[7]

At Suvla Bay on 6-7 August, 1915, Scourge worked with five other Beagles and Arno to tow troop barges in.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 60.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 73-74.
  3. ↑ March. British Destroyers. p. 101.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 73-74.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. pp. 73-74.
  6. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 373.
  7. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 112.
  8. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 113.
  9. ↑ The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 372.
  10. ↑ The Navy List (January, 1915). p. 380.

Bibliography


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