H.M.S. Turbulent (1916)

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H.M.S. Turbulent (1916)
Pendant Number: G.42 (Sep 1915)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie & Company[2]
Ordered: Nov 1914[3]
Launched: 5 Jan, 1916[4]
Completed: May, 1916[5]
Commissioned: 12 May, 1916[6]
Rammed: 1 Jun, 1916[7]
Fate: at Battle of Jutland

H.M.S. Turbulent was one of four destroyers of the Talisman class.

Service

Though then assigned to the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla, she fought with flotilla-mate Termagant with the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla at the Battle of Jutland, and was lost in that action.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 69.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 69.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 69.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 69.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 310.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 78.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 69.
  8. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 224.
  9. Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. pp. 218-9.

Bibliography


Talisman Class Destroyer
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