H.M.S. Zephyr (1895)

H.M.S. Zephyr (1895)
Pendant Number:	N.86 (1914) D.4A (Sep 1915), D.98 (1918)
Builder:	Hanna, Donald & Wilson
Ordered:	1893-94
Laid down:	23 Apr, 1894
Launched:	10 May, 1895
Commissioned:	Jul, 1901
Broken up:	1920

H.M.S. Zephyr was one of thirty-six 27 Knotters, a broad meta-class of early Torpedo Boat Destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s.

Service

She left the Nore to exercise with five other destroyers and seven torpedo boats of the Nore Defence Flotilla on 18 June, 1912.

In mid-1913, she was at The Nore.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander Henry W. Osburn, 22 February, 1902 – 30 April, 1902
• Lieutenant & Commander George N. Ballard, 21 June, 1902 – 11 March, 1903
• Lieutenant in Command Claude Seymour, 14 July, 1904 – 27 October, 1904  (lent for Annual Manoeuvres of 1904)
• Chief Gunner (T) in Command Edward Walker, 17 September, 1904 – 12 January, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Richard Daly, 5 April, 1905 – 20 July, 1906  (also in command of Rocket)
• Lieutenant & Commander Arthur T. Blackwood, c. March, 1906 – 27 April, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander Theodore E. J. Bigg, 3 May, 1906 – 3 August, 1906  (temporary)
• Lieutenant & Commander Richard Daly, 3 August, 1906 – 8 June, 1907  (also in command of Rocket)
• Lieutenant & Commander Arthur G. H. Bond, 16 September, 1907 – 27 March, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander William B. Mackenzie, 27 March, 1909 – 10 January, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Eric Q. Carter, 10 January, 1910 – 15 August, 1910
• Lieutenant-Commander Charles W. J. Howard, 15 August, 1910 – 24 August, 1910  (temporary)
• Lieutenant & Commander Charles L. M. M. Crichton, 24 August, 1910 – February, 1914
• Lieutenant in Command Ernest W. Kirkby, 21 January, 1914 – 12 November, 1915
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Arthur H. Notley, 12 November, 1915 – early 1917^{[Citation needed]}

See Also

• Wikipedia