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Revision as of 15:59, 8 January 2018

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 one of twenty Acheron's with the First Destroyer Flotilla.[8]

Around August 1917, she moved to the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla, which was a component of the Devonport Defence under Commander-in-Chief, Devonport.

In early 1918, Sandfly moved to the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla on the East Coast of England as one of four minelaying destroyers. This proved very short-lived, as by 20 February, the ship was in 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]

Sandfly was 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.
  15. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Feb 05, 1916; pg. 4; Issue 41082.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 397v.
  17. ↑ Wright Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/304. f. ?.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 397t.
  19. ↑ Wright Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/304. f. ?.
  20. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 902.

Bibliography


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