First Destroyer Flotilla (Royal Navy)
The First Destroyer Flotilla was a formation of destroyers of the Royal Navy. The flotilla changed composition often as ships were damaged, retired or transferred. For tactical reasons the flotilla was divided into two half flotillas.
Between April and October, 1910 until 1911, it included the Beagle class destroyers.[1]
From 1910 through much of 1916, it was also comprised of Acheron class destroyers armed with 21-in Mark II torpedoes.[2][3]
Contents
Outbreak of War, August, 1914
Battle of Dogger Bank, January 1915
Fourteen Acheron class destroyers were attached to the Flotilla under the lead of Aurora. One of these, Attack took Beatty from Lion when the battlecruiser was disabled.[4]
Battle of Jutland, June 1916
Nine destroyers led by Fearless screened the 5th Battle Squadron on its disengaged side during the Run to the South and then served the same duty for the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron. Attack and Defender sustained hits from 11-in shells, but kept in the action.[5]
After Jutland, 1916
Captains (D)
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Sir Robert K. Arbuthnot, 29 November, 1910. (Commodore, Second Class.)[6]
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906-1921, p. 73.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916, p. 87.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906-1921, p. 75.
- ↑ March. British Destroyers, p. 123.
- ↑ March. British Destroyers, p. 123.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 13 October, 1910. Issue 39402, col B, pg. 9.
Bibliography
- Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
