Sidney Reginald Lane

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Sidney Reginald Lane, R.N.R. (15 January, 1874 – ) served in the Royal Naval Reserve. His first name was sometimes offered as "Sydney".

Life & Career

Lane was appointed in command of the hired H.M. yacht Kethailes, and survived her loss to a collision with S.S. Leicestershire in St. George's channel on 11 October, 1917. Two officers and fifteen others were killed. Nine of the eleven survivors were rescued by the patrol boat H.M.S. P 44.[1]

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Naval Appointments
Preceded by
?
Captain of H.M.S. Cowslip
? – 25 Apr, 1918[2]
Succeeded by
Vessel Lost
Preceded by
New Command
Captain of H.M.S. Ard Patrick
21 Jun, 1918[3]
Succeeded by
?

Footnotes

  1. Email from Gordon Brown 20190713.
  2. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 130.
  3. The Navy List. (July, 1919). p. 731.