H.M.S. Sunfish (1895)

H.M.S. Sunfish (1895)
Pendant Number:	D.47 (1914) D.2A (Sep 1915), D.81 (1918)
Builder:	Hawthorn Leslie & Company
Ordered:	1893-94
Laid down:	29 Aug, 1894
Launched:	23 May, 1895
Commissioned:	18 Feb, 1896
Broken up:	1920

H.M.S. Sunfish was one of forty-two "A" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "27 knotter".

Service

Sunfish was one of seventeen destroyers of the Reserve Division which left Sheerness on 1 July, 1905 for Spithead under the overall command of Commander R. G. Gregory in H.M.S. Spitfire.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander Albert S. Lafone, 18 February, 1896 – 1 September, 1896
• Lieutenant & Commander Robert G. D. Dewar, 19 April, 1900 – January, 1902  (lent to Cygnet 29 November, 1900)
• Lieutenant & Commander John M. D. E. Warren, 2 August, 1902 – 15 October, 1903
• Commander Marcus R. Hill, August, 1903 – November, 1903
• Lieutenant & Commander John Kiddle, 15 October, 1903 – 23 March, 1904
• Lieutenant & Commander Alfred B. Barker, 14 July, 1904 – 27 August, 1904  (for manoeuvres)
• Lieutenant & Commander Francis B. Favell, 21 June, 1905 – 23 September, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Arthur N. Gouldsmith, 23 September, 1905 – April, 1907^[Inference]
• Lieutenant & Commander Henry C. Stahl, 9 April, 1907 – 4 August, 1909
• Lieutenant & Commander Reginald Watkins Grubb, 4 August, 1909 – 24 January, 1910
• Lieutenant-Commander Valentine D. English, 15 August, 1910 – 4 April, 1911
• Gunner in Command John D. Sumner, 4 May, 1912 – 14 May, 1914
• Lieutenant in Command George S. Brown, 29 July, 1914 – 1 June, 1915
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command William B. Clementson, 1 June, 1915
• Acting Commander R.N.R. Frederic J. Thompson, 11 July, 1917
• Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. George ff. H. Lloyd, 8 October, 1917 – 17 April, 1918
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Hubert G. D. Merrett, 16 December, 1918

See Also

• Wikipedia