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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
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With some ambiguity, it somehow seems that ''Spiteful'' and {{UK-FlyingFish}} shared commanders Nicholson and Sparks.
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Trevylyan Dacres Willes Napier|nick=Trevylyan D. W. Napier|appt=1900<ref>Napier Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 440.</ref>|end=6 October, 1901<ref>Napier Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 440.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Trevylyan Dacres Willes Napier|nick=Trevylyan D. W. Napier|appt=1900<ref>Napier Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 440.</ref>|end=6 October, 1901<ref>Napier Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 440.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Barnes Sparks|nick=John B. Sparks|appt=11 January, 1901<ref>Sparks Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 341.</ref>|end=3 January, 1903<ref>Sparks Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 341.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson|nick=Douglas R. L. Nicholson|appt=11 January, 1901<ref>Nicholson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 457.</ref>|end=14 February, 1902<ref>Nicholson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 457.</ref>|note=also in command of {{UK-FlyingFish}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson|nick=Douglas R. L. Nicholson|appt=11 January, 1901<ref>Nicholson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 457.</ref>|end=14 February, 1902<ref>Nicholson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 457.</ref>|note=also in command of {{UK-FlyingFish}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}} (T)|name=Arthur Horace Walker|nick=Arthur T. Walker|appt=31 December, 1912{{NLMar13|p. 377}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}} (T)|name=Arthur Horace Walker|nick=Arthur T. Walker|appt=31 December, 1912{{NLMar13|p. 377}}}}

Revision as of 18:27, 24 March 2015

H.M.S. Spiteful (1899)
Pendant Number: P.73 (1914)
D.91 (Sep 1915)
D.76 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Palmer[2]
Ordered: 1897-98 Programme[3]
Laid down: 12 Jan, 1898[4]
Launched: 11 Jan, 1899[5]
Commissioned: Feb, 1900[6]
Broken up: 1920[7]

H.M.S. Spiteful was one of twenty-four destroyers of the "B" class — a "30 knotter".

Service

In mid-1913, she was operating with the Portsmouth Defence Flotilla.[8]

Captains

With some ambiguity, it somehow seems that Spiteful and Flying Fish shared commanders Nicholson and Sparks.

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 57.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 96.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 96.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 96.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 96.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 96.
  7. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 96.
  8. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 377.
  9. Napier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 440.
  10. Napier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 440.
  11. Sparks Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 341.
  12. Sparks Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 341.
  13. Nicholson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 457.
  14. Nicholson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 457.
  15. The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 377.
  16. The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 376.
  17. The Navy List. (October, 1914). p. 381a.
  18. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 398d-k.
  19. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 398.
  20. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 910.

Bibliography


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