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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=James Budgen|nick=James Budgen|appt=9 November, 1916{{NLDec16|p. 393''r''}}|end=April, 1917|note=relieved in command after Court of Enquiry into continuous defects}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=George Washington Thomson|nick=George W. Thomson|appt=21 March, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 393''d''}}|end=late 1917}}
 
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Revision as of 20:49, 4 August 2021

H.M.S. Doncaster (1916)
Admiralty Pendant Number: 887[1]
Pendant Number: T.56 (Sep 1918)[2]
Builder: Ayrshire Shipbuilding Company[3]
Ordered: Sep 1915[4]
Launched: 15 Jun, 1916[5]
Sold: Mar, 1922[6]

H.M.S. Doncaster was one of thirty-two Ascot Class paddle minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

In January, 1921, she was one of thirteen minesweepers lying, paid off at Rosyth.[7]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111. See this note for more info.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 709a-11.
  8. Nixon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/39/419. f. 214.
  9. The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 393r.
  10. Nixon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/39/419. f. 214.
  11. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 393r.
  12. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 393d.
  13. Holm Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/44/65. f. 69.
  14. The Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 779.
  15. Holm Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/44/65. f. 69.

Bibliography


Ascot Class Paddle Minesweeper
1915 Design
Ascot Atherstone Chelmsford Chepstow Croxton
Doncaster Eglinton Epsom Eridge Gatwick
Kempton Lingfield Ludlow Melton Newbury
Plumpton Pontefract Cheltenham Goodwood Haldon
  Hurst Redcar Sandown Totnes  
Enlarged, 1917 Design
  Banbury Harpenden Hexham Lanark  
  Lewes Shincliffe Shirley Wetherby  
  Minesweepers (UK) Hunt Class –>