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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Osmond James Prentis|nick=Osmond J. Prentis|appt=20 November, 1913{{NLApr15|p. 399''h''}}|end=April, 1915{{NLApr15|p. 399''h''}}{{NLOct15|p. 399''k''}}}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} (retired)|name=Adrian St. Vincent Keyes|nick=Adrian St. V. Keyes|appt=April, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 399''k''}}|end=}}
 
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Revision as of 10:00, 12 October 2016

H.M.S. Wolverine (1910)
Pendant Number: H.18 (1917)[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird[2]
Ordered: 1908-09 Programme[3]
Launched: 15 Jan, 1910[4]
Completed: Sep, 1910[5]
Collision: 12 Dec, 1917[6]
Fate: w/sloop Rosemary[7]

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

Service

In mid-1913, active with the Third Destroyer Flotilla.[8]

While working as a high speed minesweeper in the Dardanelles area, Commander Osmond J. Prentis was killed by a shell which struck her bridge.[9]

At Suvla Bay on 6-7 August, 1915, Wolverine worked with five other Beagles and Arno to tow troop barges in.[10]

Two men died when she sank after a collision off Northwest Ireland.[11]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 61.
  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. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 61.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 61.
  8. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 397a.
  9. Smith. Hard Lying. p. 113.
  10. Smith. Hard Lying. p. 113.
  11. Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. 433.
  12. Seymour Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/177. f. 198.
  13. Seymour Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/177. f. 198.
  14. Preston Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/79. f. 79.
  15. Preston Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/79. f. 79.
  16. Edwards Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/417. ff. 419, 229.
  17. The Navy List. (November, 1913). p. 397a.
  18. Edwards Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/417. ff. 419, 229.
  19. The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 399h.
  20. The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 399h.
  21. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 399k.
  22. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 399k.
  23. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 399j.
  24. The Navy List. (November, 1917). pp. 399g, 396c.
  25. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 399g.

Bibliography


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