H.M.S. Skate (1895)

H.M.S. Skate (1895)
Builder:	Vickers^[1]
Ordered:	1893-94^[2]
Laid down:	20 Mar, 1894^[3]
Launched:	13 Mar, 1895^[4]
Commissioned:	Jan, 1896^[5]
Broken up:	1907^[6]

H.M.S. Skate was one of 42 destroyers of the "A" class — a "27 knotter".

She was broken up in 1907.

Service

Skate was the first of the Royal Navy's destroyers to be disposed of, being first used for trials of anti-torpedo guns off Shoeburyness in 1906, and then sold for scrap on 9 April, 1907 to Cox, Falmouth.^[7]^[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93. Then known as the "Naval Construction and Armament Company".
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 92.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
↑ Admiralty to C.-in-C. Nore. 17 January 1906. Ship's Cover 128. f. 175.
↑ The First Destroyers. p. 70.