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'''H.M.S. ''Opal''''' was one of 103 destroyers of the [["M" Class Destroyer (1914)|M class]].
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'''H.M.S. ''Opal''''' was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the [["M" Class Destroyer (1914)|"M" class]] built for the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[Great War]].
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==Service==
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''Opal'' joined the {{UK-DF|12}} in April, 1916,{{SMNLApr16|p. 12}} and operated with it at the [[Battle of Jutland]].{{UKJutlandOD|p. 34}}
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She ran aground in heavy fog and was lost, along with {{UK-Narborough}}.
  
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Geoffrey Coleridge Sumner|nick=Charles G. C. Sumner|appt=4 March, 1916{{NLDec16|p. 396''gg''}}|end=March, 1918<ref>Sumner Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/137.|D7604041}} f. 541.</ref>|note=in command at [[Battle of Jutland]], intermittently hospitalised|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Miles Brock Birkett|nick=M. Brock Birkett|appt=18 May, 1917<ref>Birkett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 518.</ref>|end=24 July, 1917<ref>Birkett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 518.</ref>|note=temporary, during [[Charles Geoffrey Coleridge Sumner|Sumner]]'s illness}}
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Latest revision as of 16:32, 25 April 2018

H.M.S. Opal (1915)
Pendant Number: G.02 (1914)
G.42 (Jan 1917)
G.41 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: William Doxford & Sons[2]
Ordered: Nov 1914 (2nd Order)[3]
Launched: 11 Sep, 1915[4]
Completed: Apr, 1916[5]
Wrecked: 21 Jan, 1918[6]

H.M.S. Opal was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the "M" class built for the Royal Navy during the Great War.

Service

Opal joined the Twelfth Destroyer Flotilla in April, 1916,[7] and operated with it at the Battle of Jutland.[8]

She ran aground in heavy fog and was lost, along with Narborough.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 66.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 79.
  3. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 66.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 79.
  5. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 309.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 66.
  7. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (April, 1916). p. 12.
  8. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 34.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 396gg.
  10. ↑ Sumner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/137. f. 541.
  11. ↑ Birkett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 518.
  12. ↑ Birkett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 518.
  13. ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 115.

Bibliography


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