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Revision as of 15:05, 5 May 2016

H.M.S. Lapwing (1911)
Pendant Number: H.56 (1914)
H.48 (Jan-Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird[2]
Ordered: 1910-11 Programme[3]
Launched: 29 Jul, 1911[4]
Completed: Apr, 1912[5]
Sold: 26 Oct, 1921[6]

H.M.S. Lapwing was one of 29 destroyers of the Acheron class.

Radio

She was one of 18 Acheron class destroyers fitted with W/T in 1912, becoming one of 123 destroyers so far fitted with Destroyer Sets.[7]

Service

In mid-1913, Lapwing was active with First Destroyer Flotilla.[8]

She fought at the Battle of Jutland as part of the First Destroyer Flotilla under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Alexander H. Gye,[9] and worked at screening the Fifth Battle Squadron.

Reduced to C. & M. Party at the Nore on 23 March, 1920.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  5. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  7. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. Wireless Appendix, p. 6.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 338.
  9. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 47.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 800.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (June, 1914). p. 337.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 395i.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 395tt.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 395tt.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 394z.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 828.

Bibliography


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