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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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Revision as of 16:39, 27 February 2017

H.M.S. Contest (1913)
Pendant Number: H.63(1914)
H.28 (1917)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Launched: 7 Jan, 1913[3]
Completed: Jun, 1913[4]
Torpedoed: 18 Sep, 1917[5]
Fate: by U 106[6]

H.M.S. Contest was one of twenty destroyers of the Acasta class.

Service

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

At the Battle of Jutland, she operated with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Ernald G. H. Master.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 307.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  6. ↑ Uboat.net
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 296.
  8. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
  9. ↑ Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1913). p. 298.
  11. ↑ Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1914). p. 298.
  13. ↑ Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 393c.
  15. ↑ Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250. Month could possibly be January
  16. ↑ Master Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/316. f. ?.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 395z.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 393g.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 392r.
  20. ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 103.

Bibliography


Acasta Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
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Contest Shark Sparrowhawk Spitfire Lynx
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Thornycroft Specials
Hardy Paragon Porpoise Unity Victor
Other Specials
  Ardent Fortune Garland  
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