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The [[Royal Navy]]'s '''Annual Manoeuvres of 1896''' were conducted in the summer of 1896.
  
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==Order of Battle==
 
==Order of Battle==
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The following ships participated in the exercise.{{NMI|Friday, Jun 26, 1896; pg. 7; Issue 34927}}{{NMI|Thursday, Jul 09, 1896; pg. 11; Issue 34938}}
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The Reserve Fleet would assemble at Plymouth Sound under the command of Vice-Admiral EH Seymour with Rear-Admiral AK WIlson as second-in-command.
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===Devonport===
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Battleships to be brought to full complement:
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* {{UK-1Benbow}} Captain [[Eustace Rooke]]
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* {{UK-1Colossus}} Captain [[Edward Henry Meggs Davis]]
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* {{UK-Devastation}} Captain [[William Metcalfe Lang]]
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* {{UK-1Dreadnought}} Captain [[Anson Schomberg]]
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* {{UK-1Thunderer}} Captain [[Herbert William Summer Gibson]]
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Cruisers:
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* {{UK-Forth}} Captain [[Edward Henry Bayly]] (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-Pearl}} Captain [[George Morris Henderson]] (ditto)
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* {{UK-1Phaeton}} [[Charles James Norcock]] (ditto)
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* {{UK-Sirius}} Captain [[Robert Archibald James Montgomerie]] (ditto)
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* {{UK-1Melampus}} Captain [[Charles Philip Giffin Hicks]] (to be brought up to full complement)
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Gunboats:
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* {{UK-Harrier}} Commander [[Henry Loftus Tottenham]] (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-Hazard}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge]] (ditto)
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* {{UK-Hussar}} Commander [[Charles Goodhart May]] (ditto)
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* {{UK-1Antelope}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Joseph Ridgway Bridson]] (ditto)
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* {{UK-Spider}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Alfred Whitehouse]] (in commission; to be re-commissioned)
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* {{UK-1Curlew}} Commander [[James Pipon Montgomery]] (ditto)
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* {{UK-1Renard}} (to be brought up to full complement)
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* {{UK-Jason}} (ditto)
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* {{UK-1Sharpshooter}} (ditto)
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Torpedo Boat Destroyers to be brought to full complement:
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* {{UK-Banshee}}
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* {{UK-1Ferret}}
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* {{UK-1Lynx}}
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* {{UK-Opossum}}
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Torpedo-boats to be commission on 8 July:
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* {{UK-TB52}} Acting Sub-lieutenant in Command "D. T. Morris" (I cannot identify this man)
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* {{UK-TB55}} Acting Sub-lieutenant in Command [[Walter Hose]]
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* {{UK-TB57}} Acting Sub-lieutenant in Command [[Henry George Robinson Bevan]]
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* {{UK-TB58}} Sub-lieutenant in Command [[Gerald Ducat]]
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* {{UK-TB85}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Sydney Stewart Hall]]
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* {{UK-TB87}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee]]
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===Portsmouth===
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Battleships:
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* {{UK-Sultan}} (commissioned on 8 July)
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* {{UK-Alexandra}} Captain [[William Harvey Pigott]] (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-1Edinburgh}} Captain [[John Robert Ebenezer Pattisson]] (brought up to full strength)
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Cruisers:
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* {{UK-Iphigenia}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-1Indefatigable}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-Latona}}  (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-Naiad}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-1Iris}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-1Melpomene}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-Australia}} Captain [[William Alison Dyke Acland, Second Baronet|William Alison Dyke Acland]] (brought up to full strength)
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Gunboats:
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* {{UK-Niger}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Edmund Moore Cooper Cooper-Key]] (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-Leda}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Hubert Grant-Dalton]] (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-Spanker}} (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-Seagull}} (brought up to full strength)
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Torpedo Boat Destroyers:
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* {{UK-Havock}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-1Hasty}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-Boxer}} (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-Bruizer}} (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-1Daring}} (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-Hart}} (brought up to full strength)
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Torpedo-boats:
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* {{UK-TB50}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB59}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB60}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB66}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB71}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB76}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB77}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB79}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB83}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB84}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB94}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB95}} (commissioned 8 July)
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===Chatham===
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Battleships:
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* {{UK-SansPareil}} Captain [[James Lacon Hammet]] (brought up to full strength)
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Cruisers:
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* {{UK-Apollo}} Captain [[Alvin Coote Corry]] (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-2Severn}} Captain [[John Leslie Burr]] (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-Andromache}} Captain [[Archibald James Pocklington]] (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-Thetis}} Captain [[Daniel McNab Riddel]] (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-1Brilliant}} Captain [[Francis George Kirby]] (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-1Tribune}} Captain [[George Northmore Arthur Pollard]] (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-Terpsichore}} Captain [[Herbert Arthur Walton Onslow]] (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-1Mersey}} Captain [[George William Hill]] (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-2Galatea}} Captain [[Basil Edward Cochrane]] (brought up to full strength)
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Gunboats:
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* {{UK-1Alarm}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Murray Thomas Parks]] (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-Jaseur}} Captain [[George William Gubbins]] (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-1Landrail}} Commander [[Rowland Edward Berkeley]] (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-Onyx}} Lieutenant & Commander  [[William Barrington May]] (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-Circe}} Lieutenant & Commander  [[Francis Charles Bathurst Addington]] (brought up to full strength)
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Torpedo Boat Destroyers:
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* {{UK-Porcupine}} Lieutenant & Commander [[George Ellis Cave]] (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-Janus}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Rowland Nugent]] (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-1Contest}} Lieutenant & Commander [[George Shadwell Quartano Carr]] (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-1Dragon}} Commander [[William Fane De Salis]] (brought up to full strength)
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* {{UK-1Snapper}} Lieutenant & Commander [[Algernon Eden Brooke Greville]] (brought up to full strength)
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Torpedo-boats:
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* {{UK-TB64}} (was to be commissioned 8 July, but may have scratched)
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* {{UK-TB65}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB67}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB68}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB73}} (commissioned 8 July)
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* {{UK-TB74}} (commissioned 8 July)
  
 
==Footnotes==
 
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 22:27, 13 August 2018

The Royal Navy's Annual Manoeuvres of 1896 were conducted in the summer of 1896.

Order of Battle

The following ships participated in the exercise.[1][2]

The Reserve Fleet would assemble at Plymouth Sound under the command of Vice-Admiral EH Seymour with Rear-Admiral AK WIlson as second-in-command.

Devonport

Battleships to be brought to full complement:

Cruisers:

Gunboats:

Torpedo Boat Destroyers to be brought to full complement:

Torpedo-boats to be commission on 8 July:

Portsmouth

Battleships:

Cruisers:

Gunboats:

Torpedo Boat Destroyers:

  • Havock (commissioned 8 July)
  • Hasty (commissioned 8 July)
  • Boxer (brought up to full strength)
  • Bruizer (brought up to full strength)
  • Daring (brought up to full strength)
  • Hart (brought up to full strength)

Torpedo-boats:

Chatham

Battleships:

Cruisers:

Gunboats:

Torpedo Boat Destroyers:

Torpedo-boats:

  • T.B. 64 (was to be commissioned 8 July, but may have scratched)
  • T.B. 65 (commissioned 8 July)
  • T.B. 67 (commissioned 8 July)
  • T.B. 68 (commissioned 8 July)
  • T.B. 73 (commissioned 8 July)
  • T.B. 74 (commissioned 8 July)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jun 26, 1896; pg. 7; Issue 34927.
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 09, 1896; pg. 11; Issue 34938.


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