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|order=1893-94{{Conways1860|p. 91}}
 
|order=1893-94{{Conways1860|p. 91}}
 
|name=Boxer
 
|name=Boxer
|launch=28 Nov, 1894{{DittColl|p. 56}}
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|launch=28 Nov, 1894{{NMI|Friday, Nov 30, 1894; pg. 10; Issue 34435}}
|builder=[[Thornycroft]]{{Conways1860|p. 91}}
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|builder=[[John I. Thornycroft & Company]]{{Conways1860|p. 91}}
 
|laid=Mar, 1894{{Conways1860|p. 91}}
 
|laid=Mar, 1894{{Conways1860|p. 91}}
 
|fate=Collision
 
|fate=Collision
 
|pend=H.4C (1914-Apr 1917)<br>D.16 (1918){{DittColl|p. 56}}
 
|pend=H.4C (1914-Apr 1917)<br>D.16 (1918){{DittColl|p. 56}}
 
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'''H.M.S. ''Boxer''''' was one of forty-two [["A" Class Destroyer (1894)|"A" class destroyers]] built for the [[Royal Navy]] &mdash; a "27 knotter".
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'''H.M.S. ''Boxer''''' was one of thirty-six [[27 Knotter]]s, early [[Torpedo Boat Destroyer]]s built for the [[Royal Navy]] in the 1890s.
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In August, 1912, she and the other extant 27 knotters were redesignated as [["A" Class Destroyer (1894)|"A" Class Destroyers]].
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She was lost in the [[Great War]] to a collision in early 1918.
  
 
==Service==
 
==Service==
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''Boxer'' was named by Miss Joan Thornycroft upon being launched at Chiswick on 28 November 1894.{{NMI|Friday, Nov 30, 1894; pg. 10; Issue 34435}}  She made her first trial run barely a month later, on the morning of Friday, 21 December.  Three runs over a measured mile averaged 27.88 knots, a figure deemed especially remarkable in that her engines were not first worked up at easy speeds.{{NMI|Monday, Dec 24, 1894; pg. 8; Issue 34455}}
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In reserve at Malta in December 1903.{{NLJan04|p. 287}}
 
In reserve at Malta in December 1903.{{NLJan04|p. 287}}
  
In mid-1913, she was based in Portsmouth.{{NLJul13|p. 287}}
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In 1908, {{UK-Banshee}} collided with ''Boxer'' through the fault of the first ship's Lieutenant-in-Command [[Basil George Washington|Washington]].<ref>Washington Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/514.|D7576645}} f. 517.</ref>
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In mid-1913, ''Boxer'' was based in Portsmouth.{{NLJul13|p. 287}}
  
A single Boy Telegraphist, Herbert Bennett was killed when she was lost.{{KindellROH2|p. 461}}
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A single Boy Telegraphist, Herbert Bennett was killed when she was lost in a collision on 8 February, 1918.{{KindellROH2|p. 461}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Boxer''">
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper|nick=Reginald G. O. Tupper|appt=21 January, 1895{{NLMar96|p. 207}}|end=18 August, 1896<ref>Tupper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 1336.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge|nick=Ernest C. T. Troubridge|appt=24 July, 1895{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|July 19, 1895, Issue 34633, p.14}}|end=1895|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1895]]|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper|nick=Reginald G. O. Tupper|appt=12 December, 1895<ref>Tupper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.|}} f. 1336.</ref>|end=18 August, 1896<ref>Tupper Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 1336.</ref>|note=in command for the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1896]]}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=William Stanley Lambert|nick=William S. Lambert|appt=18 August, 1896{{NLApr97|p. 207}}|end=20 January, 1898<ref>Lambert Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/43/74.|D7602419}} f. 81.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=William Stanley Lambert|nick=William S. Lambert|appt=18 August, 1896{{NLApr97|p. 207}}|end=20 January, 1898<ref>Lambert Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/43/74.|D7602419}} f. 81.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Walter Henry Cowan, First Baronet|nick=Walter H. Cowan|appt=20 January, 1898<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Monday, 24 January, 1898.  Issue '''35421''', col A, p. 11.</ref>|end=27 June, 1898<ref>Cowan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7576536}} f. 157.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Walter Henry Cowan, First Baronet|nick=Walter H. Cowan|appt=20 January, 1898<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Monday, 24 January, 1898.  Issue '''35421''', col A, p. 11.</ref>|end=27 June, 1898<ref>Cowan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7576536}} f. 157.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Randal Methven Lambert|nick=Randal M. Lambert|appt=27 June, 1898|end=15 September, 1898}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Randal Methven Lambert|nick=Randal M. Lambert|appt=27 June, 1898|end=15 September, 1898}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Cecil John Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes|nick=Cecil J. Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes|appt=10 September, 1898{{NLOct98|p. 232}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Cecil John Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes|nick=Cecil J. Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes|appt=10 September, 1898{{NLOct98|p. 232}}|end=22 December, 1899<ref>Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39/521.|}}  f. 1324.</ref>|note=died of heart failure ashore}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Frederick William Kinahan|nick=Frederick W. Kinahan|appt=1 January, 1900{{NLJan01|p. 233}}|end=1 January, 1902}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Frederick William Kinahan|nick=Frederick W. Kinahan|appt=1 January, 1900{{NLJan01|p. 233}}|end=1 January, 1902}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Bertram Owen Frederick Phibbs|nick=Bertram O. F. Phibbs|appt=1 January, 1902<ref>"Naval & Military intelligence" ''The Times'' (London). Friday, 20 December 1901. (36643), p. 5.</ref>|end=1 April, 1902}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Bertram Owen Frederick Phibbs|nick=Bertram O. F. Phibbs|appt=1 January, 1902{{NMI|Friday, 20 December 1901. (36643), p. 5}}|end=1 April, 1902}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Cecil Dacre Staveley Raikes|nick=Cecil D. S. Raikes|appt=early 1902<ref>Raikes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602757}} f. 490.</ref>|end=late 1902<ref>Raikes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602757}} f. 490.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Cecil Dacre Staveley Raikes|nick=Cecil D. S. Raikes|appt=early 1902<ref>Raikes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602757}} f. 490.</ref>|end=late 1902<ref>Raikes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D7602757}} f. 490.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Bertram Owen Frederick Phibbs|nick=Bertram O. F. Phibbs|appt=1902|end=1902}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} & Commander|name=William George Ainslie Kennedy|nick=William G. A. Kennedy|appt=June, 1905{{NLMar07|p. 286}}|end=10 July, 1907}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} & Commander|name=William George Ainslie Kennedy|nick=William G. A. Kennedy|appt=June, 1905{{NLMar07|p. 286}}|end=10 July, 1907}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Vaughan Alexander Edward Hanning-Lee|nick=Vaughan A. E. Hanning-Lee|appt=10 July, 1907<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Tuesday, 9 July, 1907.  Issue '''38380''', col D, p. 12.</ref><ref>Hanning-Lee Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/507.|D7576643}}  f. 510.</ref>|ass=October, 1907<ref>Inferred from Talbot Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/421.|D7576566}} f. 421.</ref>|end=12 January, 1910<ref>Hanning-Lee Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/507.|D7576643}}  f. 510.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Vaughan Alexander Edward Hanning-Lee|nick=Vaughan A. E. Hanning-Lee|appt=10 July, 1907<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Tuesday, 9 July, 1907.  Issue '''38380''', col D, p. 12.</ref><ref>Hanning-Lee Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/507.|D7576643}}  f. 510.</ref>|ass=October, 1907<ref>Inferred from Talbot Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/421.|D7576566}} f. 421.</ref>|end=12 January, 1910<ref>Hanning-Lee Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/507.|D7576643}}  f. 510.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Charles Leonard Fox|nick=Charles L. Fox|appt=24 May, 1911<ref>Fox Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/49/98.|D7604197}} f. ?.</ref>|end=1 August, 1911<ref>Fox Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/49/98.|D7604197}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Charles Leonard Fox|nick=Charles L. Fox|appt=24 May, 1911<ref>Fox Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/49/98.|D7604197}} f. ?.</ref>|end=1 August, 1911<ref>Fox Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/49/98.|D7604197}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William Leslie Elder|nick=William L. Elder|appt=31 October, 1911|end=18 November, 1911}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William Leslie Elder|nick=William L. Elder|appt=31 October, 1911|end=18 November, 1911}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Sydney Lionel Kekewich Lawford|nick=Sydney L. K. Lawford|appt=18 November, 1911<ref>Lawford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/190.|}}  f. 191.</ref>|end=28 February, 1912<ref>Lawford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/190.|}}  f. 191.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=George Edward Casley|nick=George E. Casley|appt=18 March, 1912{{NLJul13|p. 287}}|end=|note=this is indicated as {{UK-Gleaner}} in his service record}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=George Edward Casley|nick=George E. Casley|appt=18 March, 1912{{NLJul13|p. 287}}|end=|note=this is indicated as {{UK-Gleaner}} in his service record}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CGunnerRN}} in Command|name=William Beazley Fuller|nick=William B. Fuller|appt=11 November, 1914{{NLApr15|p. 392''m''}}|end=13 April, 1915}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CGunnerRN}} in Command|name=William Beazley Fuller|nick=William B. Fuller|appt=11 November, 1914{{NLApr15|p. 392''m''}}|end=13 April, 1915}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Robert Geoffrey Cross|nick=Robert G. Cross|appt=13 April, 1915<ref>Cross Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/54/130.|C14618620}} f. 130.</ref>{{NLOct15|p. 392''m''}}|end=8 March, 1916<ref>Cross Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/54/130.|C14618620}} f. 130.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Robert Geoffrey Cross|nick=Robert G. Cross|appt=13 April, 1915<ref>Cross Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/54/130.|C14618620}} f. 130.</ref>{{NLOct15|p. 392''m''}}|end=8 March, 1916<ref>Cross Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/54/130.|C14618620}} f. 130.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=William James O'Neill|nick=William J. O'Neill|appt=8 March, 1916<ref>O'Neill Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 240/82/316.|C14635893}} f. 64.</ref>|end=3 August, 1916<ref>O'Neill Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 240/82/316.|C14635893}} f. 64.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRNR}}|name=Cyril Stephens Durrad|nick=Cyril S. Durrad|appt=3 August, 1916{{NLAug17|p. 391''w''}}|end=September 1917{{INF}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRNR}}|name=Cyril Stephens Durrad|nick=Cyril S. Durrad|appt=3 August, 1916{{NLAug17|p. 391''w''}}|end=September 1917{{INF}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Joseph Kenneth Chaplin|nick=Joseph K. Chaplin|appt=22 September, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 391''w''}}|end=8 February, 1918{{HepperLosses|p. 120}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=vessel lost under his command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Joseph Kenneth Chaplin|nick=Joseph K. Chaplin|appt=22 September, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 391''w''}}|end=8 February, 1918{{HepperLosses|p. 120}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=vessel lost under his command}}

Latest revision as of 19:33, 5 August 2021

H.M.S. Boxer (1894)
Pendant Number: H.4C (1914-Apr 1917)
D.16 (1918)[1]
Builder: John I. Thornycroft & Company[2]
Ordered: 1893-94[3]
Laid down: Mar, 1894[4]
Launched: 28 Nov, 1894[5]
Commissioned: Jun, 1895[6]
Collision: 8 Feb, 1918[7]

H.M.S. Boxer was one of thirty-six 27 Knotters, early Torpedo Boat Destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s.

In August, 1912, she and the other extant 27 knotters were redesignated as "A" Class Destroyers.

She was lost in the Great War to a collision in early 1918.

Service

Boxer was named by Miss Joan Thornycroft upon being launched at Chiswick on 28 November 1894.[8] She made her first trial run barely a month later, on the morning of Friday, 21 December. Three runs over a measured mile averaged 27.88 knots, a figure deemed especially remarkable in that her engines were not first worked up at easy speeds.[9]

In reserve at Malta in December 1903.[10]

In 1908, Banshee collided with Boxer through the fault of the first ship's Lieutenant-in-Command Washington.[11]

In mid-1913, Boxer was based in Portsmouth.[12]

A single Boy Telegraphist, Herbert Bennett was killed when she was lost in a collision on 8 February, 1918.[13]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 56.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 91.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 91.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 91.
  5. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, Nov 30, 1894; pg. 10; Issue 34435.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 91.
  7. Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. 461.
  8. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, Nov 30, 1894; pg. 10; Issue 34435.
  9. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Monday, Dec 24, 1894; pg. 8; Issue 34455.
  10. The Navy List. (January, 1904). p. 287.
  11. Washington Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/514. f. 517.
  12. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 287.
  13. Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. 461.
  14. "The Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), July 19, 1895, Issue 34633, p.14.
  15. Tupper Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1336.
  16. Tupper Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1336.
  17. The Navy List. (April, 1897). p. 207.
  18. Lambert Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/43/74. f. 81.
  19. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 24 January, 1898. Issue 35421, col A, p. 11.
  20. Cowan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 157.
  21. The Navy List. (October, 1898). p. 232.
  22. Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/521. f. 1324.
  23. The Navy List. (January, 1901). p. 233.
  24. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, 20 December 1901. (36643), p. 5.
  25. Raikes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 490.
  26. Raikes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 490.
  27. The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 286.
  28. "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Tuesday, 9 July, 1907. Issue 38380, col D, p. 12.
  29. Hanning-Lee Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/507. f. 510.
  30. Hanning-Lee Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/507. f. 510.
  31. Talbot Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/421. f. 421.
  32. Talbot Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/421. f. 421.
  33. Coles Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/167. f. 168.
  34. The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 286.
  35. Coles Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/167. f. 168.
  36. Fox Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/49/98. f. ?.
  37. Fox Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/49/98. f. ?.
  38. Lawford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/190. f. 191.
  39. Lawford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/190. f. 191.
  40. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 287.
  41. The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 392m.
  42. Cross Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/54/130. f. 130.
  43. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 392m.
  44. Cross Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/54/130. f. 130.
  45. O'Neill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/82/316. f. 64.
  46. O'Neill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/82/316. f. 64.
  47. The Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 391w.
  48. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 391w.
  49. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 120.

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