H.M.S. Raider (1916)

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H.M.S. Raider (1916)
Pendant Number: G.81 (1916)
G.86 (Jan 1917)
G.82 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Swan Hunter[2]
Ordered: May 1915 (6th Order)[3][4]
Launched: 17 Jul, 1916[5]
Sold: 29 Apr, 1927[6]

H.M.S. Raider was one of 62 destroyers of the "R" class.

Service

Raider was assigned to the Grand Fleet's Fifteenth Destroyer Flotilla in November, 1916, as it was just reaching a useful strength.[7]

She re-commissioned with reduced Complement on 20 November, 1919.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 69.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  4. March. British Destroyers. p. 184.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 69.
  7. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (November, 1916). p. 12.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 851.
  9. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 889.
  10. The Monthly Navy List, (December 1920). p. 851.

Bibliography


"R" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Radstock Raider Romola Rowena Restless
Rigorous Rocket Rob Roy Redgauntlet Redoubt
Recruit Sturgeon Sceptre Salmon Sylph
Sarpedon Sable Setter Sorceress Satyr
Sharpshooter Simoom Skate Starfish Stork
Skilful Springbok Tancred Tarpon Telemachus
Tempest Tetrarch Tenacious Thisbe Thruster
  Tormentor Tornado Torrent Torrid  
Thornycroft Specials
Rosalind Radiant Retriever Taurus Teazer
Yarrow Specials
Sabrina Strongbow Surprise Sybille Truculent
  Tyrant Ulleswater  
Modified "R" Class
Ulster Undine Tower Trenchant Tristram
  Tirade Ursula Ulysses  
  Umpire Urchin Ursa  
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