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* [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-22-HMS_Petersfield.htm Ship Logs on Naval-History.net]
* [http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1970s/1971-1.pdf "Tragic Triangle" in ''The Naval Review'', 1971-1, p. 43.]
* [http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1970s/1971-1.pdf "Tragic Triangle" in ''The Naval Review'', 1971-1, p. 43.]
* Court Martial documents at {{TNA|ADM 156/103.|C2257410}}
* Court Martial documents at {{TNA|ADM 156/103.|C2257410}}

Revision as of 17:43, 29 July 2015

H.M.S. Petersfield (1919)
Pendant Number: T./8 (early 1919)
T.21 (Nov 1919)[1]
Builder: Lobnitz[2]
Ordered: mid 1917[3]
Launched: 3 Mar, 1919[4]
Wrecked: 11 Nov, 1931[5]
Fate: off China

H.M.S. Petersfield was one of one hundred and fourteen Hunt Class minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Two Court Martials following her loss resulted in severe reprimands for her Captain, Commander Douglas C. Lang and Navigating Lieutenant, Geoffrey A. H. Pratt, though an imperious meddling throughout the unfolding disaster brought ignominy upon Admiral Kelly, as well.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. "/" denotes Oblique pendant here. p. 114.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  6. ↑ Bonham-Carter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/81. f. 441.
  7. ↑ Bonham-Carter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/81. f. 441.
  8. ↑ "H.M.S. Petersfield: Commander Reprimanded". The Sydney Morning Herald Nov 30, 1931. p. 10, column 6.

Bibliography


Hunt Class Minesweeper
Ailsa Design
Belvoir Bicester Blackmorevale Cotswold Cottesmore
Cattistock Croome Dartmoor Garth Hambledon
Heythrop Holderness Meynell Muskerry Oakley
Pytchley Quorn Southdown Tedworth Zetland
Admiralty Design
Aberdare Abingdon Albury Alresford Beaufort
Collinson Appledore Leamington Badminton Bagshot
Barnstaple Swindon Banchory Bloxham Bradfield
Burslem Goole Blackburn Bootle Caerleon
Camberley Carstairs Caterham Battle Fermoy
Forfar Bury Cheam Gretna Harrow
Havant Huntley Instow Gaddesden Gainsborough
Northolt Clonmel Elgin Sherborne Tiverton
Tonbridge Tralee Tring Truro Kellett
Verwood Wem Wexford Craigie Derby
Dorking Dundalk Dunoon Fairfield Forres
Cupar Sutton Fareham Faversham Ford
Rugby Irvine Kendal Kinross Lydd
Longford Marlow Mistley Monaghan Mallaig
Malvern Marazion Munlochy Nailsea Newark
Repton Weybourne Pangbourne Penarth Petersfield
Pinner Pontypool Prestatyn Radley Ross
Salford Saltash Saltburn Selkirk Shrewsbury
Sligo Widnes Yeovil Stafford Stoke
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