H.M.S. Banshee (1894)

H.M.S. Banshee (1894)
Builder:	Laird
Ordered:	1893-94
Laid down:	Mar, 1894
Launched:	17 Nov, 1894
Commissioned:	Jul, 1895
Broken up:	1912

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

Like most of the 27 knotters, her useful life ran its course before the Great War.

Service

Banshee was launched at Birkenhead at the works of Laird Brothers. Mrs. Elliott Lees, wife of the M.P. for Birkenhead, named the vessel.

She performed "most satisfactorily" in her preliminary trials on 21 January 1895, making over 29 knots.

In reserve at Malta in late 1905.

In late 1906 she was in commission with the Mediterranean Fleet.

In early 1910 she was in commission with the Mediterranean Fleet.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander Philip Cranstown Musgrave, 7 November, 1895 – 4 January, 1896
• Commander Lionel de L. Wells, 4 January, 1896 – 18 August, 1896
• Lieutenant & Commander Ernest L. C. Muntz, 18 August, 1896 – 18 August, 1898
• Lieutenant & Commander Hector L. Watts-Jones, 18 August, 1898 – 28 July, 1900
• Lieutenant & Commander Alan C. Bruce, 28 July, 1900 – 1 April, 1902
• Lieutenant & Commander Arthur M. Stancomb, c. March, 1902  (lent)
• Lieutenant in Command James U. Farie, September, 1902 – early December, 1904
• Lieutenant & Commander John C. H. Lindsay, December, 1904 – January, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Claude L. Cumberlege, 2 January, 1905 – 5 October, 1905
• Commander William F. Benwell, 6 October, 1905 – 9 January, 1906  (And for Command of Torpedo Craft in Reserve)
• Lieutenant in Command Cyril P. Ryan, 10 January, 1906 – 13 July, 1906  (invalided out due to ocular disease)
• Lieutenant & Commander Basil G. Washington, 30 July, 1906 – after 22 June, 1908
• Lieutenant in Command Henry G. L. Oliphant, c. mid October 1908 – 19 August, 1910
• Lieutenant in Command Douglas Faviell, 19 August, 1910 – 15 November, 1911

See Also

• Wikipedia