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'''H.M.S. ''Skate''''' was one of 42 destroyers of the [["A" Class Destroyer (1894)|"A" class]] &mdash; a "27 knotter".
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'''H.M.S. ''Skate''''' was one of thirty-six [[27 Knotter]]s, a broad meta-class of early [[Torpedo Boat Destroyer]]s built for the [[Royal Navy]] in the 1890s.
  
 
She was broken up in 1907.
 
She was broken up in 1907.
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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} & Commander|name=Cecil Foley Lambert|nick=Cecil F. Lambert|appt=14 January, 1896<ref>Lambert Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 253/510.</ref>|end=2 March, 1896<ref>Lambert Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 253/510.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} & Commander|name=Cecil Foley Lambert|nick=Cecil F. Lambert|appt=14 January, 1896<ref>Lambert Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 253/510.</ref>|end=2 March, 1896<ref>Lambert Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 253/510.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Alan Cameron Bruce|nick=Alan C. Bruce|appt=mid 1902<ref>Bruce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/319.}}  f. 351.</ref>|note=for passage home}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lionel de Lautour Wells|nick=Lionel de L. Wells|appt=18 August, 1896<ref>Wells Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39/619.|D7579017}} f. 1383.</ref>|end=7 November, 1896<ref>Wells Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39/619.|D7579017}} f. 1383.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Robert Henry Travers|nick=Robert H. Travers|appt=7 November, 1896|end=10 September, 1897|note=participated in the Jubilee Naval Review and the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1897]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=John Garnet Armstrong|nick=John G. Armstrong|appt=1 December, 1897<ref>Armstrong Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602489}} f. 160.</ref>|end=10 August, 1898<ref>Armstrong Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602489}} f. 160.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Francis Elliott Walters|nick=Francis E. Walters|appt=10 August, 1898{{NLOct98|p. 297}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Alan Cameron Bruce|nick=Alan C. Bruce|appt=mid 1902<ref>Bruce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/319.}}  f. 351.</ref>|note=for passage home}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}}|name=James Uchtred Farie|nick=James U. Farie|appt=1 August, 1902<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>|end=2 September, 1902<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}}|name=James Uchtred Farie|nick=James U. Farie|appt=1 August, 1902<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>|end=2 September, 1902<ref>Farie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 385.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Henry Ralph Heathcote|nick=Henry R. Heathcote|appt=7 July, 1903|end=15 October, 1903}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=William Herbert Grieve|nick=William H. Grieve|appt=14 July, 1904{{ToL|Appointments for the Naval Manoeuvres|Saturday, Jul 09, 1904; pg. 12; Issue 37442}}|end=1904|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1904]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Arthur Sydney Chambers|nick=Arthur S. Chambers|appt=28 October, 1904|end=1 April, 1905}}
 
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
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Revision as of 15:13, 6 September 2019

H.M.S. Skate (1895)
Builder: Vickers[1]
Ordered: 1893-94[2]
Laid down: 20 Mar, 1894[3]
Launched: 13 Mar, 1895[4]
Commissioned: 14 Jan, 1896[5]
Broken up: 1907[6]

H.M.S. Skate was one of thirty-six 27 Knotters, a broad meta-class of early Torpedo Boat Destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s.

She was broken up in 1907.

Service

Skate was the first of the Royal Navy's destroyers to be disposed of, being first used for trials of anti-torpedo guns off Shoeburyness in 1906, and then sold for scrap on 9 April, 1907 to Cox, Falmouth.[7][8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93. Then known as the "Naval Construction and Armament Company".
  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. 93.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  5. The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 263.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  7. Admiralty to C.-in-C. Nore. 17 January 1906. Ship's Cover 128. f. 175.
  8. The First Destroyers. p. 70.
  9. Lambert Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 253/510.
  10. Lambert Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 253/510.
  11. Wells Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/619. f. 1383.
  12. Wells Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/619. f. 1383.
  13. Armstrong Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 160.
  14. Armstrong Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 160.
  15. The Navy List. (October, 1898). p. 297.
  16. Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.
  17. Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 385.
  18. Farie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 385.
  19. "Appointments for the Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 09, 1904; pg. 12; Issue 37442.

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