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==Career==
==Career==

Revision as of 21:21, 23 September 2012

H.M.S. Trafalgar (1887)
Builder: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard[1]
Laid down: 18 Jan, 1886[2]
Launched: 20 Sep, 1887[3]
Commissioned: Mar, 1890[4]
Sold: 9 Mar, 1911
Fate: Scrapped


Career

Trafalgar was commissioned at Portsmouth on 2 April, 1890, by Captain Alan B. Thomas, with a complement of 550 officers and men, as flag ship of Rear-Admiral Lord Walter Kerr, second-in-command of the Mediterranean Squadron.[5]

Radio

In 1901, while serving as a Port Guard ship, she had or was slated to receive a "1 to 52" W/T set.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 31.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 31.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 31.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 31.
  5. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 3 April, 1890. Issue 32976, col F, p. 7.
  6. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1901. p. 111.
  7. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Saturday, 22 March, 1890. Issue 32966, col F, p. 12.

Bibliography



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