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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Forester''''' was one of twelve [[Forester Class Gunboat (1874)|''Forester'' Class gunboats]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
 
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Forester''''' was one of twelve [[Forester Class Gunboat (1874)|''Forester'' Class gunboats]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
  
 
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Commissioned at Devonport on 15 January, 1878.{{NLDec81|p. 213}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Sidney Glenton Smith|nick=Sidney G. Smith|appt=8 July, 1878{{NLOct78|p. 212}}|end=28 June, 1881|note=invalided, would die at Haslar on 25 August}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Frank Archdall Harston|nick=Frank A. Harston|appt=20 July, 1881{{NLDec81|p. 213}}|end=31 January, 1882}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Edward Western Hodgkinson|nick=Edward W. Hodgkinson|appt=22 April, 1882{{NLJul84|p. 213}}|end=1 January, 1884}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Alexander Eckstein Stewart|nick=Alexander E. Stewart|appt=1 January, 1893|end=13 May, 1893}}
 
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Latest revision as of 12:30, 27 September 2019

H.M.S. Forester (1877)
Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding[1]
Launched: 26 Feb, 1877[Citation needed]
Commissioned: 15 Jan, 1878[2]
Sold: 1904[3]

H.M.S. Forester was one of twelve Forester Class gunboats completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commissioned at Devonport on 15 January, 1878.[4]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
  2. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1878). p. 212.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 112.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1881). p. 213.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1878). p. 212.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1881). p. 213.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1884). p. 213.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1888). p. 208.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1892). p. 221.

Bibliography


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