H.M.S. Plucky (1870)

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H.M.S. Plucky (1870)
Builder: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard[Citation needed]
Launched: 13 Jul, 1870[1]
Sold: 1928[2]

H.M.S. Plucky (H.M.S. Banterer after June, 1915) was a prototype flatiron gunboat built for the Royal Navy.

Construction & Service

Plucky was the first iron vessel built at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard.[3] She was a minor improvement on the preceding prototype, Staunch, in that she was thirteen tons heavier, which permitted her to have finer ends. Still, the design was notably stubby.[4]

The three Devonport-based gunboats Scourge, Plucky and Bulldog were among the ships invited to participate in the Queen's naval Jubilee at Portsmouth in 1887.[5]

Plucky was renamed H.M.S. Banterer in June, 1915. A new destroyer took the name Plucky in mid-1916.

Banterer paid off at Devonport 13 December 1918.[6]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 16 July 1870, p. 5.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 111.
  3. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 16 July 1870, p. 5.
  4. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 8 Dec. 1870, p. 12.
  5. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 11 May 1887; p. 9.
  6. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 216.
  7. Lindesay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/39. f. 794.
  8. Lindesay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/39. f. 794.
  9. Harper Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43. f. 507.
  10. Ross Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 46.
  11. Ross Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 46.
  12. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 13 July 1907, p. 8.
  13. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 8 Feb. 1909, p. 7.
  14. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 11 July 1911, p. 15.
  15. Fraser Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/7. f. 211.
  16. Fraser Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/7. f. 211.
  17. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 16 Dec. 1912, p. 12.
  18. Coplestone-Boughey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/100. f. 304.
  19. Coplestone-Boughey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/100. f. 304.
  20. Dean Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/56/68. f. 68.
  21. The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 392i.
  22. Dean Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/56/68. f. 68.
  23. Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/82/1375. f. 278.
  24. Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/82/1375. f. 278.

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