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'''H.M.S. ''Spitfire''''' was one of forty-two destroyers of the [["A" Class Destroyer (1894)|"A" class]] &mdash; a "27 knotter".
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'''H.M.S. ''Spitfire''''' was one of thirty-six [[27 Knotter]]s, a broad meta-class of early [[Torpedo Boat Destroyer]]s built for the [[Royal Navy]] in the 1890s.
  
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==Service==
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Like most of the 27 knotters, she was broken up before the war.
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Like many of her sisters, she was broken up before the war.
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==Construction & Service==
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On 1 July, 1905, ''Spitfire'' led seventeen destroyers of the Reserve Division from Sheerness to Spithead under the command of Commander [[Reginald Graham Gregory]].<ref>"Naval And Military Intelligence."  ''The Times'' (London, England), Monday, Jul 03, 1905; pg. 12; Issue 37749.</ref>
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She and sixteen other destroyers of the Reserve Division arrived at Sheerness on 13 July 1905 and proceeded to Chatham.<ref>"Naval And Military Intelligence."  ''The Times'' (London, England), Friday, Jul 14, 1905; pg. 10; Issue 37759.</ref>
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In 1911, she was part of the {{UK-DF|6}}.<ref>Loveband Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/203.|}} f. ?.</ref>
  
 
==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. ''Spitfire''">{{TenureListBegin|Captain of {{UK-1Spitfire|f=p}}}}
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<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Spitfire''">
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Raymond Andrew Nugent|nick=Raymond A. Nugent|appt=11 March, 1897{{NMI|Friday, Mar 12, 1897; pg. 11; Issue 35149}}|end=1 April, 1897{{NMI|Thursday, Apr 01, 1897; pg. 11; Issue 35166}}|note=came in, temporarily, with crew from {{UK-Janus}} while that ship undergoes refit}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Horatio Walcott Colomb|nick=Horatio W. Colomb|appt=18 June, 1897<ref>Colomb Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/202.|D7602528}} f. ?.</ref>|end=c. August 1897{{INF}}|note=lent for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1897]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Raymond Andrew Nugent|nick=Raymond A. Nugent|appt=18 September, 1897{{NMI|Saturday, Sep 18, 1897; pg. 11; Issue 35312}}|end=mid November, 1897{{NMI|Saturday, Nov 13, 1897; pg. 11; Issue 35360}}|note=came in, temporarily, with crew from {{UK-Janus}} while that ship undergoes repair}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Thomas Francis Tregoye Michell|nick=Thomas F. T. Michell|appt=18 February, 1899|end=14 June, 1899|note=indicated in one ''Navy List'' as {{UK-2Salmon}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=John Luce|nick=John Luce|appt=13 June, 1899<ref>Luce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 79.</ref>|end=before 24 August, 1899<ref>Luce Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 79.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Charles Pipon Beaty-Pownall|nick=Charles P. Beaty-Pownall|appt=7 February, 1900<ref>Beaty-Pownall Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 235.</ref>|end=13 March, 1900<ref>Beaty-Pownall Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 235.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Stanley Ray Miller|nick=Stanley R. Miller|appt=16 July, 1901{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|Thursday, July 11, 1901, Issue 36504, p.8}}|end=|note=for the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1901]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Brien Michael Money|nick=Brien M. Money|appt=21 July, 1903<ref>"APPOINTMENTS FOR THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES."  ''The Times'' (London, England), Thursday, Jul 16, 1903; pg. 8; Issue 37134.</ref>|end=18 August, 1903|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1903]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} (in Command?)|name=Colin Kenneth MacLean|nick=Colin K. MacLean|appt=14 August, 1903|end=15 September, 1903}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Humphrey Thomas Walwyn|nick=Humphrey T. Walwyn|appt=14 July, 1904{{ToL|Appointments for the Naval Manoeuvres|Saturday, Jul 09, 1904; pg. 12; Issue 37442}}<ref>Walwyn Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/24.}} f. 24.</ref>|end=3 January, 1905|note=for [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1904]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Cecil Horace Pilcher|nick=Cecil H. Pilcher|appt=3 January, 1905{{NMI|Saturday, December 24, 1904, Issue 37586, p.4}}|end=14 March, 1905}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Reginald Graham Gregory|nick=Reginald G. Gregory|appt=before 2 July, 1905|end=c. 11 July, 1905{{INF}}|note=taking 18 destroyers from Sheerness to Spithead}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Rose Price Hawksley|nick=James R. P. Hawksley|appt=11 July, 1905<ref>Hawksley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 289.</ref>|end=3 September, 1905<ref>Hawksley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 289.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Rose Price Hawksley|nick=James R. P. Hawksley|appt=11 July, 1905<ref>Hawksley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 289.</ref>|end=3 September, 1905<ref>Hawksley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 289.</ref>}}
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{{TenureListEnd}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Robert James Buchanan|nick=Robert J. Buchanan|appt=4 September, 1905<ref>Buchanan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/4.|D7603511}} f. 4.</ref>|end=1 January, 1906<ref>Buchanan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/4.|D7603511}} f. 4.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{GunnerRN}} in Command|name=John Reep|nick=John Reep|appt=23 January, 1906|end=1 April, 1906}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Osmond James Prentis|nick=Osmond J. Prentis|appt=1 April, 1906<ref>Prentis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/118.|D7602904}} f. 130.</ref>|end=28 May, 1906<ref>Prentis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/118.|D7602904}} f. 130.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=William Francis Benwell|nick=William F. Benwell|appt=28 May, 1906<ref>Benwell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/200.|D7602538}}  f. 215.</ref>{{NLJun06|p. 378}}|end=22 June, 1906<ref>Benwell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43/200.|D7602538}}  f. 215.</ref>|note=left, sick with neuritis}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Vaughan Alexander Edward Hanning-Lee|nick=Vaughan A. E. Hanning-Lee|appt=28 May, 1906{{NLMar07|p. 378}}|end=10 July, 1906|ass=c. 22 June, 1906|note=assumed command after Benwell's illness}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Leonard Robinson|nick=Leonard Robinson|appt=10 July, 1907{{NLOct08|p. 378}}|end=15 January, 1909}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=George William Taylor|nick=George W. Taylor|appt=30 March, 1909<ref>Taylor Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 438.</ref>|end=26 November, 1909<ref>Taylor Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 438.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Henry Clive Rawlings|nick=Henry C. Rawlings|appt=26 November, 1909<ref>Rawlings Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/96.|D7604000}} f. 500.</ref>{{NLJan10|p. 378}}|end=May, 1910<ref>Rawlings Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/96.|D7604000}} f. 500.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Frederic Archibald Hunter Russel|nick=Frederic A. H. Russel|appt=May, 1910<ref>Russel Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/75.|D7604174}} f. 40.</ref>|end=1 March, 1911<ref>Russel Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/75.|D7604174}} f. 40.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Anthony William Loveband|nick=Anthony W. Loveband|appt=1 March, 1911<ref>Loveband Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/203.|}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLApr11|p. 378}}|end=16 May, 1911<ref>Loveband Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/203.|}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
 
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
  
 
==Equipment==
 
==Equipment==
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In 1896, {{UK-1Swordfish}} and ''Spitfire'' were fitted with [[Tower's Steady Platform]] search lights which proved "very satisfactory,"{{ARTS1896|p. ix}} having been improved since 1889 evaluations.  In tests at Chatham on 13th October, 1896, ''Spitfire'' was moored in basin number 3 and rolled about 25 degrees while she shone her light on a hatch-painted test vessel.  The light beam did not waver by more than a half degree during the test.{{ARTS1896|p. 51}}
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In 1896, {{UK-2Swordfish}} and ''Spitfire'' were fitted with [[Tower's Steady Platform]] search lights which proved "very satisfactory,"{{ARTS1896|p. ix}} having been improved since 1889 evaluations.  In tests at Chatham on 13th October, 1896, ''Spitfire'' was moored in basin number 3 and rolled about 25 degrees while she shone her light on a hatch-painted test vessel.  The light beam did not waver by more than a half degree during the test.{{ARTS1896|p. 51}}
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
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Latest revision as of 13:24, 25 February 2022

H.M.S. Spitfire (1895)
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Company[1]
Ordered: 1893-94[2]
Laid down: 4 Jun, 1894[3]
Launched: 7 Jun, 1895[4]
Commissioned: Nov, 1896[5]
Broken up: 1912[6]

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

Like most of the 27 knotters, she was broken up before the war.

Construction & Service

On 1 July, 1905, Spitfire led seventeen destroyers of the Reserve Division from Sheerness to Spithead under the command of Commander Reginald Graham Gregory.[7]

She and sixteen other destroyers of the Reserve Division arrived at Sheerness on 13 July 1905 and proceeded to Chatham.[8]

In 1911, she was part of the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Equipment

In 1896, Swordfish and Spitfire were fitted with Tower's Steady Platform search lights which proved "very satisfactory,"[45] having been improved since 1889 evaluations. In tests at Chatham on 13th October, 1896, Spitfire was moored in basin number 3 and rolled about 25 degrees while she shone her light on a hatch-painted test vessel. The light beam did not waver by more than a half degree during the test.[46]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 92.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  7. ↑ "Naval And Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Monday, Jul 03, 1905; pg. 12; Issue 37749.
  8. ↑ "Naval And Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jul 14, 1905; pg. 10; Issue 37759.
  9. ↑ Loveband Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/203. f. ?.
  10. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, Mar 12, 1897; pg. 11; Issue 35149.
  11. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Apr 01, 1897; pg. 11; Issue 35166.
  12. ↑ Colomb Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/202. f. ?.
  13. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Sep 18, 1897; pg. 11; Issue 35312.
  14. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Nov 13, 1897; pg. 11; Issue 35360.
  15. ↑ Luce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 79.
  16. ↑ Luce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 79.
  17. ↑ Beaty-Pownall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 235.
  18. ↑ Beaty-Pownall Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 235.
  19. ↑ "The Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), Thursday, July 11, 1901, Issue 36504, p.8.
  20. ↑ "APPOINTMENTS FOR THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 16, 1903; pg. 8; Issue 37134.
  21. ↑ "Appointments for the Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 09, 1904; pg. 12; Issue 37442.
  22. ↑ Walwyn Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/24. f. 24.
  23. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Saturday, December 24, 1904, Issue 37586, p.4.
  24. ↑ Hawksley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 289.
  25. ↑ Hawksley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 289.
  26. ↑ Buchanan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/4. f. 4.
  27. ↑ Buchanan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/4. f. 4.
  28. ↑ Prentis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/118. f. 130.
  29. ↑ Prentis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/118. f. 130.
  30. ↑ Benwell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/200. f. 215.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (June, 1906). p. 378.
  32. ↑ Benwell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/200. f. 215.
  33. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1907). p. 378.
  34. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 378.
  35. ↑ Taylor Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 438.
  36. ↑ Taylor Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 438.
  37. ↑ Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.
  38. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1910). p. 378.
  39. ↑ Rawlings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/96. f. 500.
  40. ↑ Russel Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/75. f. 40.
  41. ↑ Russel Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/75. f. 40.
  42. ↑ Loveband Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/203. f. ?.
  43. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 378.
  44. ↑ Loveband Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/203. f. ?.
  45. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1896. p. ix.
  46. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1896. p. 51.

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