H.M.S. Surprise (1916)

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H.M.S. Surprise (1916)
Pendant Number: F.69 (Jan 1917)
F.66 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Yarrow & Company[2]
Ordered: July 1915 (6th Order)[3][4]
Launched: 25 Nov, 1916[5]
Completed: Jan, 1917[6]
Mined: 23 Dec, 1917[7]
Fate: in North Sea[8]

H.M.S. Surprise was one of sixty-two "R" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1916-17.

Service

Surprise joined the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla upon her completion. Commander Wilfred Arthur Thompson commanded her on 23 January, 1917 during action against German destroyers.[9]

She operated continuously with the 10 D.F. as a component of the Harwich Force through 1917. She was lost, along with Torrent and Tornado on 23 December when the flotilla entered a minefield.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 68.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  4. March. British Destroyers. p. 184.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  6. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 310.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 68.
  8. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 68.
  9. Naval Operations. Vol. IV. pp. 74-8 and index.
  10. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 398c.
  11. Thompson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/70. f. 70.

Bibliography


"R" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Radstock Raider Romola Rowena Restless
Rigorous Rocket Rob Roy Redgauntlet Redoubt
Recruit Sturgeon Sceptre Salmon Sylph
Sarpedon Sable Setter Sorceress Satyr
Sharpshooter Simoom Skate Starfish Stork
Skilful Springbok Tancred Tarpon Telemachus
Tempest Tetrarch Tenacious Thisbe Thruster
  Tormentor Tornado Torrent Torrid  
Thornycroft Specials
Rosalind Radiant Retriever Taurus Teazer
Yarrow Specials
Sabrina Strongbow Surprise Sybille Truculent
  Tyrant Ulleswater  
Modified "R" Class
Ulster Undine Tower Trenchant Tristram
  Tirade Ursula Ulysses  
  Umpire Urchin Ursa  
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