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The [[Royal Navy]]'s '''Annual Manoeuvres of 1904''' was an especially large event.


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==Order of Battle==
==Order of Battle==
The roster would include torpedo craft specially commissioned on 14 July, larger vessels commissioned on 18 July, and a number of ships already in commission.{{ToL|Appointments for the Naval Manoeuvres|Saturday, Jul 09, 1904; pg. 12; Issue 37442}}
* {{UK-Angler}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[Howard John Kennard]]
* {{UK-Arab}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[Arthur Goodenough Craufurd]]
* {{UK-Avon}} at Chatham under {{LaCRN}} [[Charles Ewer Cundall]]
* {{UK-Barfleur}} at Devonport under {{CaptRN}} [[Herbert Augustus Warren]]
* {{UK-Bittern}} at Chatham under {{LaCRN}} [[Leslie Jennings Lucas Hammond]]
* {{UK-1Brazen}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[James Lewis Soltan Kirkness]]
* {{UK-Bullfinch}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[Ambrose Maynard Peck]]
* {{UK-Canopus}} at Portsmouth under {{CaptRN}} [[Edward Stafford Fitzherbert, Thirteenth Baron Stafford|Edward Stafford Fitzherbert]], Rear-Admiral [[Robert Leonard Groome]]
* {{UK-Cheerful}} at Chatham under {{LaCRN}} [[Rowland Edward Stokes-Rees]]
* {{UK-1Daring}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[Harold Goodwin Innes]]
* {{UK-Dasher}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[Lockhart Leith]]
* {{UK-1Decoy}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[William Douglas Paton]]
* {{UK-Dee}} at Portsmouth under {{CommRN}} [[Frederic William Dean]]
* {{UK-Eden}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[Ernest Kennaway Arbuthnot]]
* {{UK-1Electra}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[Hugh James Orr]]
* {{UK-1Express}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[Hugh Percival Buckle]]
* {{UK-1Ferret}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} The Hon. [[Matthew Robert Best]]
* {{UK-Flirt}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[Reginald James Newall Watson]]
* {{UK-1Gipsy}} at Devonport under {{CommRN}} [[Cecil Foley Lambert]]
* {{UK-Goliath}} at Chatham under {{CaptRN}} [[Edmond John Warre Slade]]
* {{UK-Gossamer}} at Chatham under {{CommRN}} [[John Irvine Graham]]
* {{UK-1Grasshopper}} at Devonport under {{CommRN}} [[Heathcoat Salusbury Grant]]
* {{UK-Haughty}} at Chatham under {{LaCRN}} [[Henry Wise Parker]]
* {{UK-1Havock}} at Sheerness under {{LaCRN}} [[Ernest Stevenson]]
* {{UK-Highflyer}} at Devonport under {{CaptRN}} [[Robert Stewart Phipps Hornby]], Rear-Admiral [[Charles Grey Robinson]]
* {{UK-Howe}} at Devonport under {{CaptRN}} [[Richard Bowles Farquhar]]
* {{UK-1Hunter}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[Colpoys Cleland Walcott]]
* {{UK-Itchen}} at Devonport under {{CommRN}} [[Wilfred Henderson]]
* {{UK-Kestrel}} at Portsmouth[?] under {{LaCRN}} [[Basil George Washington]]
* {{UK-Lee}} at Chatham under {{LaCRN}} [[Percival Scott Rickcord]]
* {{UK-Leopard}} at Chatham under {{LaCRN}} [[Archibald Campbell Goolden]]
* {{UK-Leven}} at Devonport under {{CommRN}} [[George Bowes Hutton]]
* {{UK-Lively}} at Devonport under {{CommRN}} [[John Saumarez Dumaresq]]
* {{UK-1Lynx}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[John Colin Howard Lindsay]]
* {{UK-Mermaid}} at Chatham under {{LaCRN}} [[Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar]]
* {{UK-Opossum}} was to commission at Chatham under {{LaCRN}} [[Frederick Crosby Halahan]], but [[George Piercy Leith]] took command when Halahan remained at gunnery studies
* {{UK-Osprey}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[Cecil Vivian Usborne]]
* {{UK-Ostrich}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[Alfred Frank St. Clair Armitage]]
* {{UK-1Peterel}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} The Hon. [[Arthur Stopford]]
* {{UK-Quail}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[Charles Morton Forbes]]
* {{UK-1Ramillies}} at Chatham under {{CaptRN}} [[William Henry Baker-Baker]], Rear-Admiral [[Richard Poore, Fourth Baronet|Sir Richard Poore]]
* {{UK-1Renown}} at Devonport under {{CaptRN}} [[Thomas Benjamin Stratton Adair]]
* {{UK-1Resolution}} at Chatham under {{CaptRN}} [[Charles Edmund Kingsmill]]
* {{UK-Ribble}} at Chatham under {{CommRN}} [[Randal Methven Lambert]]
* {{UK-Seagull}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[Odiarne Unett Coates]]
* {{UK-1Sharpshooter}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[Wyndham Forbes]]
* {{UK-1Sheldrake}} at Chatham under {{LaCRN}} [[Henry Edmund Sharp]]
* {{UK-1Skate}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[William Herbert Grieve]]
* {{UK-1Spitfire}} at Chatham under {{LaCRN}} [[Humphrey Thomas Walwyn]]
* {{UK-Sprightly}} at Devonport under {{CommRN}} [[Ernest Sausmarez Carey]]
* {{UK-2Starfish}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[Charles Cockin Johnson]]
* {{UK-1Sunfish}} at Chatham under {{LaCRN}} [[Alfred Barnett Barker]]
* {{UK-2Swordfish}} at Sheerness under {{LaCRN}} [[Sidney Julius Meyrick]]
* {{UK-Sylvia}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[William Charles Castle]]
* {{UK-1Teazer}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[Clement Loftus Long]]
* {{UK-Teviot}} at Chatham under {{LaCRN}} [[Manuel Dasent]]
* {{UK-1Tiger}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[Charles Henry Davey]]
* {{UK-Vigilant}} at Devonport under {{LaCRN}} [[Walter John Challoner Lake]]
* {{UK-Violet}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[Thomas Acland Williams]]
* {{UK-Vixen}} at Devonport under {{CommRN}} [[Thomas Leslie Thorpe-Doubble]]
* {{UK-Vulture}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[John Beauchamp Waterlow]]
* {{UK-Waveney}} at Chatham under {{CommRN}} [[Harold Granville Grenfell]]
* {{UK-Zebra}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[Llewellyn Evan Hugh Llewellyn]] (Gunner [[Charles Walter Cock]] took command when Llewellyn remained at gunnery studies)
* {{UK-Zephyr}} at Portsmouth under {{LaCRN}} [[Claude Seymour]]
==Chatham T.Bs.==
* {{UK-TB65}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[Howard Vernon Percy Weston]]
* {{UK-TB66}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis]] ({{LaCRN}} [[Geoffrey Stewart Fleetwood Nash]] actually took command)
* {{UK-TB67}} under {{SubRN}} [[Charles Edward Turle]]
* {{UK-TB68}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[Clive Neville Rolfe]]
* {{UK-TB72}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[Frederic Archibald Hunter Russel]]
* {{UK-TB73}} under {{SubRN}} [[Kenneth Douglas Worsley Macpherson]]
* {{UK-TB74}} under {{SubRN}} [[Charles Vernon Lowcay Norcock]]
==Portsmouth T.Bs.==
* {{UK-1TB25}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[Eustace Ruffel Drake Long]]
* {{UK-1TB27}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[Julian Francis Chichester Patterson]]
* {{UK-1TB33}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[Guy Waterhouse Hallifax]]
* {{UK-1TB34}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[Robert Harman Llewelyn]]
* {{UK-1TB41}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[Henry Bone Taylor]]
* {{UK-1TB42}} under {{SubRN}} [[Gerald Lord Hodson]]
* {{UK-1TB45}} under {{SubRN}} [[Harold de Gallye Lamotte]]
* {{UK-TB51}} under {{SubRN}} [[Erskine Arthur Nicolson]]
* {{UK-TB52}} under {{SubRN}} [[John Stewart Gordon Fraser]]
* {{UK-TB53}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[Charles Beecham Land]]
* {{UK-TB54}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[David Thorburn Graham-Brown]]
* {{UK-TB55}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[David de Beauvoir Stocks]]
* {{UK-TB57}} under {{SubRN}} [[Reginald Gregory]]
* {{UK-TB58}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[Wilfred Neville Custance]]
* {{UK-TB78}} under acting {{SubRN}} [[Hamilton John Burnett Hall]]
* {{UK-TB79}} under {{LaCRN}} (T) [[William Rawdon Napier]] (and for command of Milford T.B. Flotilla)
* {{UK-TB109}} under {{LaCRN}} [[William Fortescue Sells]]
* {{UK-TB110}} under {{LaCRN}} [[Charles Rodney Blane, Fourth Baronet|Charles Rodney Blane]]
==Devonport T.Bs.==
* {{UK-TB80}} under {{LaCRN}} [[Francis Alexander Clutterbuck]]
* {{UK-TB82}} under {{LaCRN}} [[Hugh William Innes-Lillingston]]
* {{UK-TB85}} under {{LaCRN}} (T) [[John Clarke Stewart Paterson]]
* {{UK-TB86}} under {{LaCRN}} (T) [[Brien Michael Money]]
* {{UK-TB87}} under {{LaCRN}} (T) [[Aubrey Lambert]]
* {{UK-TB98}} under {{LaCRN}} (T)[[Edward Morden Bennett]]
* {{UK-TB99}} under {{LaCRN}} [[Albert Siegmund Susmann]]
* {{UK-TB107}} under {{LaCRN}} (T) [[Godfrey Francis William Grayson]]
* {{UK-TB108}} under {{LaCRN}} (T) [[Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard]] (and for command of Loch Ryan T.B. Flotilla)
* {{UK-TB111}} under {{LaCRN}} [[Philip Henry Trimmer]]
* {{UK-TB112}} under {{LaCRN}} [[Vernon Stanhope Rashleigh]]
* {{UK-TB113}} under {{LaCRN}} [[William Werden Wilson]]


==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==
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Latest revision as of 18:42, 20 August 2018

The Royal Navy's Annual Manoeuvres of 1904 was an especially large event.

Order of Battle

The roster would include torpedo craft specially commissioned on 14 July, larger vessels commissioned on 18 July, and a number of ships already in commission.[1]

Chatham T.Bs.

Portsmouth T.Bs.

Devonport T.Bs.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Appointments for the Naval Manoeuvres." The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jul 09, 1904; pg. 12; Issue 37442.


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