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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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*  {{CommRN}} [[Harold Escombe]], 11 November, 1909.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1910), p. 343.</ref>
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*  {{LieutRN}} & Commander [[Henry Francis Howard Wakefield|Henry F. H. Wakefield]], 12 January, 1911.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 343.</ref>
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*  {{LCommRN}} [[Henry de Beauvoir Tupper|Henry de B. Tupper]], 3 December, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1914), p. 344.</ref>
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*  {{CommRN}} [[Benjamin Wingate Barrow|Benjamin W. Barrow]], 30 July, 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (January, 1915), p. 354.</ref>
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Revision as of 18:44, 6 May 2014

H.M.S. Maori (1909)
Pendant Number: H.16 (1914)[1]
Builder: Denny[2]
Ordered: 1907-08 Programme[3]
Launched: 24 May, 1909[4]
Mined: 7 May, 1915[5]

H.M.S. Maori was one of twelve destroyers of the "Tribal" class.

Service

In mid-1913, she as serving with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla.[6]

Later, while part of the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, the ship was one of four of her class undergoing refit in Chatham Royal Dockyard until 8 July, 1914.[7]

On 4 March, 1915, Maori, under the command of Commander Barrow and Ghurka joined ten other destroyers in prosecuting U 8 which Viking had been attacking, successfully blowing the submarine to the surface and taking 28 prisoners.[8]

On 7 May, Maori joined Crusader in a reconnaissance of Zeebrugge. Maori struck a mine and sank near Weukubget Lightship. Two trawlers arrived to capture her crew.[9]

Radio

In 1909, she became one of forty-three destroyers so far fitted with Destroyer Sets.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 60.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 72.
  3. ↑ March. British Destroyers. p. 84.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 72.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 72.
  6. ↑ The Navy List (July, 1913), p. 343.
  7. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 88 of 3 July 1914.
  8. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 101.
  9. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 101.
  10. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1909. Wireless Appendix, p. 25.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 343.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 343.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 344.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 354.

Bibliography


Tribal Class Destroyer
Afridi Cossack Ghurka Mohawk Tartar
  Amazon Saracen Crusader Maori  
  Nubian Viking Zulu Zubian  
<– River Class Destroyers (UK) Beagle Class –>
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