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'''H.M.S. ''Lurcher''''' was one of 29 destroyers of the [[Acheron Class Destroyer (1910)|''Acheron'' class]].
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'''H.M.S. ''Lurcher''''' was one of twenty-nine destroyers of the [[Acheron Class Destroyer (1910)|''Acheron'' class]].
  
 
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In mid-1913, she was in the {{UK-DF|4}}.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 342.</ref>
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At the [[Battle of Heligoland Bight]], ''Lurcher'' was erroneously feared lost after she'd gone so far into the Ems in search of the enemy.  Later, she bolted in to rescue 220 survivors of {{DE-Mainz}}.{{HardLying|p. 126}}
 
At the [[Battle of Heligoland Bight]], ''Lurcher'' was erroneously feared lost after she'd gone so far into the Ems in search of the enemy.  Later, she bolted in to rescue 220 survivors of {{DE-Mainz}}.{{HardLying|p. 126}}
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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Revision as of 13:45, 30 September 2014

H.M.S. Lurcher (1912)
Pendant Number: H.01 (1914)
H.65 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Yarrow[2]
Ordered: 1910-11 Programme[3]
Launched: 1 Jun, 1912[4]
Completed: Oct, 1913[5]
Sold: 9 Jun, 1922[6]

H.M.S. Lurcher was one of twenty-nine destroyers of the Acheron class.

Service

In mid-1913, she was in the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla.[7]

At the Battle of Heligoland Bight, Lurcher was erroneously feared lost after she'd gone so far into the Ems in search of the enemy. Later, she bolted in to rescue 220 survivors of Mainz.[8]

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  5. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 342.
  8. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 126.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 804.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1913). p. 342.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1914). p. 342.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 395p.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 395y.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 837.

Bibliography


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