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==Service==
==Service==
In mid-1913, ''Druid'' was serving with the {{UK-DF|1}}.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913).  p. 303.</ref>
In mid-1913, ''Druid'' was serving with the {{UK-DF|1}}.{{NLJul13|p. 303}}


Reduced to C. & M. Party at Portsmouth 5 August, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 762}}
Reduced to C. & M. Party at Portsmouth 5 August, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 762}}
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} {{HON}}|name=Richard Orlando Beaconsfield Bridgeman|nick=Richard O. B. Bridgeman|appt=28 March, 1912{{NLFeb14|p. 305}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Richard Orlando Beaconsfield Bridgeman|nick=The Hon. Richard O. B. Bridgeman|appt=28 March, 1912{{NLFeb14|p. 305}}|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Edmond Julius Gordon Mackinnon|nick=Edmond J. G. Mackinnon|appt=11 March, 1914{{NLJan15|p. 307}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Edmond Julius Gordon Mackinnon|nick=Edmond J. G. Mackinnon|appt=11 March, 1914{{NLJan15|p. 307}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Roger Vincent Alison|nick=Roger V. Alison|appt=6 January, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 393''n''}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Roger Vincent Alison|nick=Roger V. Alison|appt=6 January, 1915{{NLOct15|p. 393''n''}}}}

Revision as of 20:56, 29 September 2014

H.M.S. Druid (1911)
Pendant Number: H.33 (1914)
H.30 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Denny[2]
Ordered: 1910-11 Programme[3]
Launched: 4 Dec, 1911[4]
Completed: Apr, 1912[5]
Sold: 9 May, 1921[6]

H.M.S. Druid was one of 29 destroyers of the Acheron class.

Radio

She was one of 18 Acheron class destroyers fitted with W/T in 1912, becoming one of 123 destroyers so far fitted with Destroyer Sets.[7]

Service

In mid-1913, Druid was serving with the First Destroyer Flotilla.[8]

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Portsmouth 5 August, 1919.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  5. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  7. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. Wireless Appendix, p. 6.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 303.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 762.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1914). p. 305.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 307.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 393n.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 393f. Year is not legible. It could be 1915 or 1917.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 780.

Bibliography


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