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.

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.[6]

Service

Commissioned along with Hydra on 8 June, 1912 at Portsmouth, for service with the First Destroyer Flotilla.[7]

In June 1914, planned alterations in Portsmouth Royal Dockyard, when the ship was presumably serving with the First Destroyer Flotilla were to be deferred:[8]

  • 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.[9] She was then serving in First Destroyer Flotilla, part of First Fleet.[10]

She fought at the Battle of Jutland as part of the First Destroyer Flotilla,[11] which was tasked with screening the Fifth Battle Squadron.

She reduced to C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.[12]

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. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. Wireless Appendix, p. 6.
  7. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 10 June, 1912. Issue 39921, col B, p. 4.
  8. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 36 of 19 June, 1914.
  9. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 80 of 3 July 1914.
  10. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 109 of 10 July, 1914.
  11. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 34.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 789.
  13. ↑ The Navy List (January, 1915). p. 333.
  14. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 46.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 816.

Bibliography


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