H.M.S. Sparrowhawk (1912)

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H.M.S. Sparrowhawk (1912)
Pendant Number: H.61 (1914)[1]
Builder: Swan Hunter[2]
Launched: 12 Oct, 1912[3]
Completed: May, 1913[4]
Sunk: 1 Jun, 1916[5]
Fate: in Battle of Jutland

H.M.S. Sparrowhawk was one of twenty destroyers of the Acasta class.

There was also an earlier and a later Sparrowhawk.

Service

In mid-1913, she was with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla.[6]

At the Battle of Jutland, she operated with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla and was lost in night action under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Sydney Hopkins.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 307.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 377.
  7. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 381a.

Bibliography


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