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==Service==
==Service==
''Laverock'' collided with her flotilla-mate {{UK-Medusa}} in heavy seas and wild winds on the night of 25 March 1916.  ''Medusa'' was lost in the encounter, but her entire crew was saved by {{UK-Lassoo|f=p}}.<ref>Butler Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/68.|D7604480}} f. 205.</ref>
Reduced to C. & M. Party at the Nore on 29 November, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 801}}
Reduced to C. & M. Party at the Nore on 29 November, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 801}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Norman Benbow|nick=John N. Benbow|appt=3 August, 1914{{NLJan15|p. 346}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Norman Benbow|nick=John N. Benbow|appt=3 August, 1914{{NLOct15|p. 395''j''}}|end=4 May, 1916|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} in Command|name=Maxwell Alexander Christian Ritter|nick=Maxwell A. C. Ritter|appt=5 August, 1918{{NLJan19|p. 829}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LaCRN}}|name=Colin Alexander Gordon Hutchison|nick=Colin A. G. Hutchison|appt=4 May, 1916{{NLDec16|p. 395''u''}}|end=18 January, 1917}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} in Command|name=Henry Armstrong Binmore|nick=Henry A. Binmore|appt=18 January, 1917<ref>Binmore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/202.|D7604957}} f. 214.</ref>{{NLNov17|p. 395}}|end=5 November, 1917<ref>Binmore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/202.|D7604957}} f. 214.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} in Command|name=Maxwell Alexander Christian Ritter|nick=Maxwell A. C. Ritter|appt=5 August, 1918<ref>Ritter Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/36.|D8116668}} f. 36.</ref>{{NLJan19|p. 829}}|end=28 December, 1918<ref>Ritter Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/36.|D8116668}} f. 36.</ref>}}
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==See Also==
==See Also==
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Latest revision as of 14:34, 1 May 2020

H.M.S. Laverock (1913)
Pendant Number: H.53 (1914)
H.53 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Yarrow & Company[2]
Launched: 19 Nov, 1913[3]
Sold: May, 1921[4]

H.M.S. Laverock was one of twenty-two destroyers of the Laforey class.

Service

Laverock collided with her flotilla-mate Medusa in heavy seas and wild winds on the night of 25 March 1916. Medusa was lost in the encounter, but her entire crew was saved by H.M.S. Lassoo.[5]

Reduced to C. & M. Party at the Nore on 29 November, 1919.[6]

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. 76.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  5. ↑ Butler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/68. f. 205.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 801.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 395j.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 395u.
  9. ↑ Binmore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/202. f. 214.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 395.
  11. ↑ Binmore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/202. f. 214.
  12. ↑ Ritter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/36. f. 36.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 829.
  14. ↑ Ritter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/36. f. 36.

Bibliography


Laforey Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Llewellyn Lennox Loyal Legion Laforey
Lawford Louis Lydiard Laertes Lysander
  Lance Lookout  
White 2-Funnelled Type
  Laurel Liberty  
Yarrow 2-Funnelled Type
  Lark Landrail Laverock Linnet  
War Emergency Repeat "L" Class
  Lochinvar Lassoo Leonidas Lucifer  
<– Acasta Class Destroyers (UK) "M" Class –>


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