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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}} [[Herbert Norris Hunter|Herbert N. Hunter]], 1 December, 1909.<ref>''The Navy List'' (April, 1910), p. 321.</ref>
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*  {{LieutRN}} & Commander [[Loftus William Jones]], 15 December, 1910.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 319.</ref>
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*  {{LieutRN}} & Commander [[Hubert Edwin Gore-Langton|Hubert E. Gore-Langton]], 20 December, 1913.<ref>''The Navy List'' (February, 1914), p. 319.</ref>
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Revision as of 19:02, 6 May 2014

H.M.S. Ghurka (1907)
Pendant Number: H.52 (1914)
D.04 (Sep 1915)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Ordered: 1905-06 Programme[3]
Launched: 29 Apr, 1907[4]
Mined: 8 Feb, 1917[5]

H.M.S. Ghurka was one of 12 destroyers of the "Tribal" class.

Service

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

On 4 March, 1915, Ghurka, under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Richardson and Maori joined ten other destroyers in prosecuting U 8 which Viking had been attacking, successfully blowing the submarine to the surface and taking 28 prisoners.[7]

Radio

In 1909, she became one of forty-three destroyers so far fitted with Destroyer Sets.[8]

Guns

By 1912-13, her five 12-pdr P. I mountings bore register numbers 210, 211, 212, 279 and 280 and were fitted with "Training Gear".[9]

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. 319.
  7. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 101.
  8. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1909. Wireless Appendix, p. 25.
  9. ↑ The National Archives. ADM 186/182. p. 55.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 321.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 319.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1914). p. 319.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 322.

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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