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Revision as of 15:28, 10 February 2015
| H.M.S. St. George (1892) | |
|---|---|
| Pendant Number: | N.31 (1914) N.88 (Jan 1918)[1] |
| Builder: | Earle, Hull[2] |
| Laid down: | 23 Apr, 1890[3] |
| Launched: | 23 Jun, 1892[4] |
| Commissioned: | 25 Oct, 1894[5] |
| Sold: | 1 Jul, 1920[6] |
H.M.S. St. George was completed in 1894 as one of nine Edgar class cruisers, but was converted to a depot ship before the Great War.
Service
St. George completed conversion to depot ship in March, 1910,[7] commissioning at Chatham on the 15th.[8] She would serve the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla in the Forth from mid-1913 if not earlier,[9] the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla in the Humber in 1914-15, and finally to the Mediterranean.[10]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain Edward H. Gamble, December, 1894[11]
- Captain George Le C. Egerton, 11 May, 1895[12]
- Commodore, Second Class Edmund S. Poë, 31 October, 1899[13]
- Captain Paul W. Bush, 26 February, 1901[14]
- Captain Frank Finnis, 26 May, 1904[15] – 7 December, 1904[16]
- Captain Arthur Y. Moggridge, 7 December, 1904[17][18]
- Captain Charles H. H. Moore, 1906[19]
- Captain Herbert A. S. Fyler, August, 1906[20]
- Captain Edward F. Bruen, 25 June, 1908[21] – 19 September, 1908[22]
- Captain Guy L. Sclater, March, 1910[23]
- Captain Edward G. Lowther-Crofton, May, 1911[24]
- Captain Vincent B. Molteno, 1 May, 1912[25]
- Captain Alan C. Bruce, 10 December, 1913[26] – 27 January, 1914[27]
- Captain Cecil D. S. Raikes, 27 January, 1914[28]
- Captain Reginald L. Crichton, 21 March, 1915[29]
- Acting Captain Sidney R. Olivier, 2 November, 1915[30]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 370.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 370.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 293.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Egerton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 396.
- ↑ Poë Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1051.
- ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 21 February, 1901. Issue 36384, col D, p. 10.
- ↑ Finnis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 457.
- ↑ Finnis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 457.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Day of month inferred from his predecessor. Finnis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 457.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Fyler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/88. f. 69.
- ↑ Bruen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 210/418.
- ↑ Bruen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 210/418.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 370.
- ↑ Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.
- ↑ Bruce Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/319. f. 351.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 378a.
- ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 397t.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 900.
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
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