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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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Revision as of 20:19, 27 May 2014

H.M.S. Contest (1913)
Pendant Number: H.63(1914)
H.28 (1917)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Launched: 7 Jan, 1913[3]
Torpedoed: 18 Sep, 1917[4]
Fate: by U 106[5]

H.M.S. Contest was one of twenty destroyers of the Acasta class.

Service

In mid-1913, she was serving with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla.[6]

At the Battle of Jutland, she operated with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Ernald G. H. Master.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  5. ↑ Uboat.net
  6. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913). p. 296.
  7. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1913). p. 298.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1914). p. 298.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 297.
  11. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 44.

Bibliography


Acasta Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Acasta Achates Ambuscade Christopher Cockatrice
Contest Shark Sparrowhawk Spitfire Lynx
  Midge Owl  
Thornycroft Specials
Hardy Paragon Porpoise Unity Victor
Other Specials
  Ardent Fortune Garland  
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