H.M.S. Boxer (1894)

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H.M.S. Boxer (1894)
Pendant Number: H.4C (1914-Apr 1917)
D.16 (1918)[1]
Builder: Thornycroft[2]
Ordered: 1893-94[3]
Laid down: Mar, 1894[4]
Launched: 28 Nov, 1894[5]
Commissioned: Jun, 1895[6]
Collision: 1918[7]

H.M.S. Boxer was one of forty-two destroyers of the "A" class — a "27 knotter".

Service

In mid-1913, she was based in Portsmouth.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 56.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 91.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 91.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 91.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 56.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 91.
  7. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 91.
  8. The Navy List (July, 1913). p. 287.
  9. The Navy List (July, 1913). p. 287.
  10. The Navy List (January, 1915). p. 285.

Bibliography


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