H.M.S. Teal (1901)

H.M.S. Teal (1901)
Pendant Number:	N.72 (Nov 1919)
Builder:	Yarrow & Company
Launched:	18 May, 1901
Sold:	Oct, 1931

H.M.S. Teal was one of two Teal Class river gunboats completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

In 1925, she was serving on the China Station. Wilfred A. Higgins would succumb to heat stroke while in command, on 2 August, 1926.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander Robert W. Dalgety, 23 February, 1902 – 24 January, 1903
• Lieutenant & Commander Eric V. F. R. Dugmore, 24 January, 1903 – 1904
• Lieutenant & Commander Edward Secretan, 7 April, 1905 – 5 February, 1907
• Lieutenant & Commander Harry R. Godfrey, 5 February, 1907 – 18 March, 1910
• Lieutenant in Command Henry J. G. Good, early 1910 – 5 May, 1910
• Lieutenant-Commander Robert J. Buchanan, 5 May, 1910 – 5 August, 1911
• Lieutenant-Commander Hugh D. Marryat, 5 August, 1911 – 27 October, 1911
• Lieutenant & Commander The Hon. Guy Stopford, 27 October, 1911 – 6 December, 1913
• Lieutenant in Command Somerville P. B. Russell, 6 December, 1913 – 7 November, 1914
• Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. Sidney Hall, 28 May, 1918 – October, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander John M. Henderson, 7 July, 1919 – January, 1921
• Lieutenant-Commander Julian Harrison, 20 January, 1921 – January, 1923
• Lieutenant-Commander Aubrey C. Thursfield, 27 January, 1923 – March, 1925
• Lieutenant-Commander Wilfred A. Higgins, 27 January, 1925 – 2 August, 1926  (died of heat stroke while in command)
• Lieutenant-Commander Donal B. O'Connell, 7 September, 1926 – 1 May, 1928
• Lieutenant-Commander Walter A. Ford, c. mid September, 1928 – 15 November, 1929
• Lieutenant-Commander George F. Stevens-Guille, 18 September, 1929 – 8 September, 1931

Lt. Cdr. Edward Ormsby Troubridge Keeling may have been in command for a few days at the very end, c. August, 1931.

See Also

• Wikipedia

Footnotes

Teal Class River Gunboat

Teal

Moorhen