H.M.S. Crescent (1892)

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H.M.S. Crescent (1892)
Pendant Number: A4 (1914)
N.04 (Sep 1915)
N.29 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: 13 Oct, 1890[3]
Launched: 30 Mar, 1892[4]
Commissioned: 22 Feb, 1894[5]
Sold: 22 Sep, 1921[6]
Fate: Broken up

H.M.S. Crescent was one of nine Edgar class protected cruisers completed between 1893 and 1896.

Service

Crescent was recommissioned at Queenstown on 10 February, 1913.[7]

She became the first ship to enter the new Rosyth Royal Dockyard via the yard's emergency opening, on 17 March 1916.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 38.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 66.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 38.
  7. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 297.
  8. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 6, Part 47. p. 3.
  9. Craigie Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/38/258. f. 264.
  10. The Navy List. (April, 1894). p. 212.
  11. Craigie Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/38/258. f. 264.
  12. Fisher Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 281.
  13. Fisher Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/18. f. 281.
  14. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  15. Arbuthnot Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 39.
  16. Powell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/243. f. 1052.
  17. The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 215.
  18. Powell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39/243. f. 1052.
  19. George V Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/244. f. 255.
  20. Graves-Sawle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 551.
  21. Graves-Sawle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 551.
  22. Colville Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 29.
  23. Napier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 440.
  24. Napier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 440.
  25. Nugent Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 469.
  26. Nugent Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 469.
  27. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Monday, July 29, 1907, Issue 38397, p.8.
  28. Grant-Dalton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 367.
  29. Grant-Dalton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 367.
  30. The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 297.
  31. Henderson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 335.
  32. Henderson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 335.
  33. Streatfeild Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/260. ff. 285, 286.
  34. The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 297.
  35. Streatfeild Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/260. ff. 285, 286.
  36. Streatfeild Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/260. ff. 285, 286.
  37. Streatfeild Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/260. ff. 285, 286.
  38. The Navy List. (August, 1912). p. 297.
  39. Church Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/420. f. 502.
  40. Church Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42/420. f. 502.
  41. The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 300.
  42. Wardle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/242. f. 245.
  43. Trewby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/452. f. 503.
  44. Trewby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/452. f. 503.
  45. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 393f.
  46. Grant-Dalton Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/43/328. f. 362.
  47. Warleigh Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/334. f. 369.
  48. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 768.
  49. Warleigh Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/334. f. 369.
  50. Veale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/305. f. 335.
  51. Veale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/43/305. f. 335.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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