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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. ↑ Coates Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/424. f. 485.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 397v.
  14. ↑ Coates Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/424. f. 485. Day of month could also be 3.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 397v.
  16. ↑ Wright Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/304. f. ?.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 397t.
  18. ↑ Wright Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/304. f. ?.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 902.

Bibliography


Acheron Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Goshawk Hind Hornet Hydra Defender
Druid Sandfly Jackal Tigress Lapwing
  Lizard Phoenix Ferret Forester  
Yarrow Specials
  Archer Attack  
Thornycroft Specials
  Acheron Ariel  
Parsons Specials
  Badger Beaver  
Firedrake/Yarrow Specials
  Firedrake Lurcher Oak  
Australian type
  Parramatta Warrego Yarra  
  Huon Swan Torrens  
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