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'''H.M.S. ''Sandfly''''' was one of 29 destroyers of the [[Acheron Class Destroyer (1910)|''Acheron'' class]].
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In mid-1913, she was with the {{UK-DF|1}}.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 372.</ref>
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Francis George Crawshay Coates|nick=Francis G. C. Coates|appt=4 December, 1911{{NLOct15|p. 397''v''}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Francis Ernest Wright|nick=Francis E. Wright|appt=18 November, 1916{{NLNov17|p. 397''t''}}}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Edward Heath Dauglish|nick=Edward H. Dauglish|appt=20 March, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 902}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Edward Heath Dauglish|nick=Edward H. Dauglish|appt=20 March, 1918{{NLFeb19|p. 902}}}}

Revision as of 16:21, 30 September 2014

H.M.S. Sandfly (1911)
Pendant Number: H.87 (1914)
H.99 (Jan 1918)
F.95 (Sep 1918)[1]
Builder: Swan Hunter[2]
Ordered: 1910-11 Programme[3]
Launched: 26 Jul, 1911[4]
Completed: Dec, 1911[5]
Sold: 9 May, 1921[6]

H.M.S. Sandfly was one of twenty-nine 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, she was with the First Destroyer Flotilla.[8]

In 1918, the ship was sent to the Twentieth Destroyer Flotilla, fitted as a minelayer in the "Slow Division".[9]

She was rammed by the Telemachus in thick fog and had her boiler room flooded, requiring an arduous, thirty-six hour tow to harbour.[10]

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport, 15 October, 1919.[11]

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. 372.
  9. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 124.
  10. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 124.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 860.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 397v.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 397t.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 902.

Bibliography


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