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Revision as of 20:32, 3 November 2015

H.M.S. Ardent (1913)
Pendant Number: H.78 (1914)[1]
Builder: Denny[2]
Launched: 8 Sep, 1913[3]
Completed: Feb, 1914[4]
Sunk[5]: 1 Jun, 1916[6]
Fate: at Battle of Jutland

H.M.S. Ardent was one of twenty destroyers of the Acasta class.

There was an earlier destroyer named Ardent.

Service

At the Battle of Jutland, she operated with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla and was sunk in the night action under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Marsden.[7]

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. 75.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 307.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  7. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
  8. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 392c.

Bibliography


Acasta Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Acasta Achates Ambuscade Christopher Cockatrice
Contest Shark Sparrowhawk Spitfire Lynx
  Midge Owl  
Thornycroft Specials
Hardy Paragon Porpoise Unity Victor
Other Specials
  Ardent Fortune Garland  
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