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Revision as of 16:38, 7 September 2016

H.M.S. Taurus (1917)
Pendant Number: F.71 (Jan 1917)
F.70 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Thornycroft[2]
Ordered: Dec 1915 (7th Order)[3][4]
Launched: 10 Mar, 1917[5]
Completed: May, 1917[6]
Sold: 18 Feb, 1930[7]

H.M.S. Taurus was one of sixty-two "R" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1916-17.

Service

She was reduced to Reserve at Devonport on 16 October, 1919.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  4. March. British Destroyers. p. 184.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  6. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 310.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 871.
  9. Hodgson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/124. f. 124.
  10. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 398e.
  11. Hodgson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/124. f. 124.
  12. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 914.
  13. The Navy List. (August, 1919). p. 915.
  14. The Navy List. (October, 1919). p. 915.
  15. Hallett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/214. f. 281.
  16. The Navy List. (November, 1919). p. 915.
  17. Hallett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/214. f. 281.
  18. Cardale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/127. f. 131.
  19. Fawcett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. Unnumbered folio.
  20. Fawcett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. Unnumbered folio. Month not legible.
  21. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 818.
  22. Percival Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/255. f. 303.
  23. Percival Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/255. f. 303.

Bibliography


"R" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Radstock Raider Romola Rowena Restless
Rigorous Rocket Rob Roy Redgauntlet Redoubt
Recruit Sturgeon Sceptre Salmon Sylph
Sarpedon Sable Setter Sorceress Satyr
Sharpshooter Simoom Skate Starfish Stork
Skilful Springbok Tancred Tarpon Telemachus
Tempest Tetrarch Tenacious Thisbe Thruster
  Tormentor Tornado Torrent Torrid  
Thornycroft Specials
Rosalind Radiant Retriever Taurus Teazer
Yarrow Specials
Sabrina Strongbow Surprise Sybille Truculent
  Tyrant Ulleswater  
Modified "R" Class
Ulster Undine Tower Trenchant Tristram
  Tirade Ursula Ulysses  
  Umpire Urchin Ursa  
<– Talisman Class Destroyers (UK) "V" Class –>