H.M.S. Kite (1871)

From The Dreadnought Project
Revision as of 03:57, 19 April 2014 by Christopher Buckey (Talk | contribs) (Service)

Jump to: navigation, search
H.M.S. Kite (1871)
Builder: Napier[1]
Launched: 8 Feb, 1871[2]
Sold: 18 May, 1920[3]
H.M.S. Kite was one of six Ant class gunboats completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

From the early 1880s through to at least 1914, Kite was at Portsmouth as a tender to the gunnery training school Excellent.[4][5]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 105.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 105.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 105.
  4. The Navy List (October, 1883), p. 221.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 315.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1907). p. 311.
  7. The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 312.
  8. The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 311.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 315.

Bibliography


Ant Class Gunboat
Ant Class
Ant Arrow Badger Blazer Bloodhound
Bonetta Bulldog Bustard Comet Cuckoo
Fidget Hyaena Kite Mastiff Pickle
Pike Scourge Snake Snap Weazel
Gadfly Class
  Gadfly Griper Pincher Tickler  
<– H.M.S. Plucky Small Fry (UK) Ariel Class –>
<– H.M.S. Plucky Gunboats (UK) Ariel Class –>