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'''H.M.S. ''Viking''''' was one of 12 destroyers of the [[Tribal Class Destroyer (1907)|Tribal class]].
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'''H.M.S. ''Viking''''' was one of 12 destroyers of the [[Tribal Class Destroyer (1907)|"Tribal" class]].
  
 
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* {{LCommRN}} [[Robert G. Hamond]], 15 December, 1910.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 393.</ref>
 
* {{CommRN}} Henry G. L. Oliphant, in command at [[Battle of Dover Strait]], 26-27 October, 1916.{{UKNavalOpsIV|p. 62}}
 
* {{CommRN}} Henry G. L. Oliphant, in command at [[Battle of Dover Strait]], 26-27 October, 1916.{{UKNavalOpsIV|p. 62}}
  

Revision as of 01:51, 13 July 2013

H.M.S. Viking (1909)
Pendant Number: H.90 (1914)
D.09 (Sep 1915)
D.93 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Palmer[2]
Ordered: 1907-08 Programme[3]
Launched: 14 Sep, 1909[4]
Sold: 1919[5]

H.M.S. Viking was one of 12 destroyers of the "Tribal" class.

Career

While part of the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, the ship was one of four of her class undergoing refit in Chatham Royal Dockyard until 8 July, 1914.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 60.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 72.
  3. March. British Destroyers. p. 84.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 72.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 72.
  6. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 88 of 3 July 1914.
  7. The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 393.
  8. Naval Operations. Vol. IV. p. 62.

Bibliography


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