H.M.S. Teviot (1903)

H.M.S. Teviot (1903)
Pendant Number:	N.26 (1914) D.33 (Sep 1915) D.88 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	Yarrow & Company
Ordered:	1901-02 Programme
Laid down:	10 Jul, 1902
Launched:	7 Nov, 1903
Completed:	Apr, 1904
Commissioned:	Apr, 1904
Broken up:	1919

H.M.S. Teviot was one of the Royal Navy's thirty-six "River" class destroyers.

Service

In late 1905, she was one of eight destroyers in the Second Division of the Channel Fleet's Destroyer Flotilla.

In April, 1908, she was one of ten Rivers expected to arrive at Portsmouth in order to have H.M.S. Vernon install wireless telegraphy equipment in them.

In June, 1911, she went to Gibraltar under the command of Lt. Gerald Cartmell Harrison. Upon arrival in Gibraltar, Harrison was to go over to command Kestrel. Teviot was then to undergo a retubing refit at the Dockyard, which would complete by late January, 1912.

In mid-1913, operating with the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla — a patrol flotilla.

On 2 February, 1914, she was one of five Rivers of the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla paid off at Sheerness and Chatham, immediately recommissioning with new crews.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander Manuel Dasent, 14 July, 1904  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1904)
• Lieutenant & Commander John Kiddle, 27 August, 1904 – 22 October, 1904
• Lieutenant & Commander Harold G. Innes, 22 October, 1904 – 7 June, 1905
• Commander William N. England, 7 June, 1905 – 10 April, 1906
• Commander James R. P. Hawksley, 10 April, 1906 – 28 May, 1906
• Commander Charles H. Morgan, 28 May, 1906 – 16 July, 1906  (and as Commander (D) in command of Torpedo Boat Destroyers in Commission in Reserve)
• Commander R. C. Kemble Lambert, 21 July, 1906 – 15 November, 1906
• Commander Hubert S. Cardale, 1 January, 1907 – 29 January, 1908
• Lieutenant in Command Reginald St. P. Parry, 24 January, 1908 – 22 March, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Wilfred A. Thompson, 22 March, 1910 – August, 1910
• Commander George J. Todd, 23 August, 1910 – 10 June, 1911
• Lieutenant in Command Gerald C. Harrison, 13 June, 1911 – 19 July, 1911  (in command on passage to Gibraltar)
• Lieutenant-Commander Alexander H. Gye, 1 March, 1912 – mid 1914
• Lieutenant in Command Gordon McL. Cameron, before 7 November, 1913
• Lieutenant in Command Hugh R. Troup, 16 June, 1914 – 21 July, 1915
• Lieutenant in Command Charles E. Wilson, 3 September, 1915
• Lieutenant & Commander Herbert Owen, 14 March, 1916 – 8 September, 1916
• Lieutenant-Commander (retired) Sydney L. K. Lawford, 8 September, 1916
• Lieutenant in Command George L. M. Napier, 2 January, 1917 – 3 October, 1917^[Inference]
• Lieutenant in Command John E. Phayre, 3 October, 1917 – 10 August, 1918
• Lieutenant in Command Donald C. Brock, 10 August, 1918 – 19 August, 1918  (sick)
• Lieutenant in Command Patrick E. Fell, 19 August, 1918

See Also

• Wikipedia