H.M.S. Hydra (1912)

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H.M.S. Hydra (1912)
Pendant Number: H.50 (1914)
H.43 (Jan-Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown[2]
Ordered: 1910-11 Programme[3]
Launched: 19 Feb, 1912[4]
Sold: 9 May, 1921[5]

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

Career

In June 1914, planned alterations in Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, when the ship was presumably serving with the First Destroyer Flotilla were to be deferred:[6]

  • removal of strips under cocoanut matting
  • addition of loading lights to guns

In July, work to somehow alter the ship's chart table was also deferred.[7]

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. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  6. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 36 of 19 June, 1914.
  7. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 80 of 3 July 1914.
  8. ↑ The Navy List (April, 1914), p. 326.

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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