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HMS Earnest (1896)

January 01, 1970

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Earnest.

HMS Earnest was an "thirty-knotter" torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was built by Laird, Son & Company at their Birkenhead shipyard as one of six Earnest-class destroyers ordered as part of the Royal Navy's 1895–1896 construction programme, which were later classified as members of the B-class. Earnest was launched on 7 November 1896 and was completed in November 1897.

History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Earnest
BuilderLaird, Son & Co., Birkenhead
Laid down2 March 1896
Launched7 November 1896
CompletedNovember 1897
FateScrapped, 1920
General characteristics
Class and typeEarnest-class destroyer
Displacement395 long tons (401 t)
Length210 ft (64 m)
Beam21.5 ft (6.6 m)
Draught9.75 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion
Speed30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement63
Armament

Earnest served in the Mediterranean from 1898 to 1907, before returning to Britain. She remained in service in the First World War, being employed on patrol and convoy escort duties in the North Sea and Irish Sea. Earnest was sold for scrap on 7 January 1920.

Design and construction edit

Earnest was ordered on 23 December 1895 as the first of six 30-knotter destroyers programmed to be built by Lairds under the 1895–1896 shipbuilding programme for the Royal Navy.[1] These followed on from four very similar destroyers ordered from Lairds as part of the 1894–1895 programme.[2]

Earnest was 218 feet (66.45 m) long overall and 213 feet (64.92 m) between perpendiculars, with a beam of 21 feet 6 inches (6.55 m) and a draught of 9 feet 9 inches (2.97 m). Displacement was 355 long tons (361 t) light and 415 long tons (422 t) full load. Like the other Laird-built 30-knotters, Locust was propelled by two triple expansion steam engines, fed by four Normand boilers, rated at 6,300 ihp (4,700 kW), and was fitted with four funnels.[2][3]

Armament was the standard for the 30-knotters, i.e. a QF 12 pounder 12 cwt (3 in (76 mm) calibre) gun on a platform on the ship's conning tower (in practice the platform was also used as the ship's bridge), with a secondary armament of five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes.[4][5] The ship had a crew of 63 officers and men.[6]

Earnest was laid down at Laird's Birkenhead shipyard as Yard number 621 on 2 March 1896 and was launched on 7 November 1896.[1] Earnest reached 30.13 knots (55.80 km/h; 34.67 mph) during sea trials.[7] She was completed in November 1897.[1]

Service edit

In 1897 Earnest was in reserve at Devonport.[8] She was transferred to the Mediterranean Squadron in September 1898,[1] and was in August 1901 recommissioned at Malta as tender to the battleship HMS Caesar.[9] Lieutenant Philip Agnew Bateman-Champain was in command from November 1901. She visited Greek waters (including Nauplia) in September 1902,[10] and in early January 1903 took part in a three-weeks cruise with other ships of the squadron in the Greek islands around Corfu.[11] Earnest returned to Home waters in 1907.[1]

Earnest was a member of the Eastern group of destroyers based at Harwich in 1908, entering refit at Chatham Dockyard in September that year.[12] In February 1910, Earnest, by now a member of the Nore Destroyer Flotilla, was again under refit at Chatham.[13]

On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyers were to be grouped into classes designated by letters based on contract speed and appearance. As a four-funneled 30-knotter destroyer, Earnest was assigned to the B Class.[14][15] In 1912, older destroyers were transferred to patrol flotillas,[16] with Earnest forming part of the 7th Destroyer Flotilla, based at Devonport, by March 1913.[17] In November 1913, Earnest was under repair at Sheerness Dockyard following a collision with another destroyer.[18] Earnest remained part of the 7th Flotilla on the eve of the First World War in July 1914.[19]

At the outbreak of war, the 7th Flotilla was redeployed to the Humber River for operations off the East coast of Britain.[20][21] Duties of the Flotilla were to prevent enemy ships from carrying out minelaying or torpedo attacks in the approaches to ports on the East coast, and to prevent raids by enemy ships.[22] Earnest was still part of the 7th Flotilla in June 1917,[23] while in July was listed as part of the East Coast Convoy Flotilla,[24] although in August Earnest had returned to the 7th Flotilla, which was recorded as being involved in East Coast Convoys.[25] By October, Earnest was listed as being part of the Local Defence Flotilla for the Nore,[26] where she remained in February 1918.[27] By March, Earnest was one of seven destroyers making up the Irish Sea Flotilla,[28] which by July had been renamed the Irish Sea Hunting Flotilla.[29] She remained part of the Irish Sea Hunting Flotilla at the end of the war in November 1918, and was based at Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire) in the South of Ireland.[30]

Earnest was sold for scrap to the shipbreakers S. Castle of Plymouth on 7 January 1920.[1]

Pennant numbers edit

Pennant number[31] From To
D05 1914 September 1915
D79 September 1915 January 1918
D29 January 1918

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f Lyon 2001, p. 62
  2. ^ a b Lyon 2001, pp. 61–62
  3. ^ Chesneau & Kolesnik 1979, p. 94
  4. ^ Lyon 2001, pp. 98–99
  5. ^ Friedman 2009, p. 40
  6. ^ Manning 1961, p. 40
  7. ^ Brassey 1902, p. 275
  8. ^ "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. 1 October 1897. p. 264.
  9. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36533. London. 14 August 1901. p. 4.
  10. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36893. London. 8 October 1902. p. 4.
  11. ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36983. London. 21 January 1903. p. 8.
  12. ^ "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Chatham Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 31. October 1908. p. 73.
  13. ^ "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Chatham Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 32. March 1910. p. 308.
  14. ^ Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 18
  15. ^ Manning 1961, pp. 17–18
  16. ^ Manning 1961, p. 25
  17. ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: Patrol Flotillas". The Monthly Naval List. March 1913. p. 269d. Retrieved 31 March 2020 – via National Library of Scotland..
  18. ^ "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective: Sheerness Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 36. November 1913. p. 116.
  19. ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: Patrol Flotillas". The Navy List. August 1914. p. 269c. Retrieved 31 March 2020 – via National Library of Scotland.
  20. ^ Manning 1961, p. 26
  21. ^ Corbett 1920, pp. 15–16
  22. ^ Naval Staff Monograph No. 7 1921, pp. 75–76
  23. ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: VI.—Vessels Under Rear-Admiral Commanding East Coat of England". The Navy List. June 1917. p. 16. Retrieved 31 March 2020 – via National Library of Scotland.
  24. ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: VI.—Vessels Under Rear-Admiral Commanding East Coat of England". The Navy List. July 1917. p. 16. Retrieved 31 March 2020 – via National Library of Scotland.
  25. ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: VI.—Vessels Under Rear-Admiral Commanding East Coat of England". The Navy List. August 1917. p. 16. Retrieved 1 April 2020 – via National Library of Scotland.
  26. ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: VIII.—Local Defence Flotillas". The Navy List. October 1917. p. 18. Retrieved 1 April 2020 – via National Library of Scotland.
  27. ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: VIII.—Local Defence Flotillas". The Navy List. February 1918. p. 18. Retrieved 1 April 2020 – via National Library of Scotland.
  28. ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: IX.—Irish Sea Flotilla". The Navy List. March 1918. p. 19. Retrieved 1 April 2020 – via National Library of Scotland.
  29. ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: IX.—Irish Sea Hunting Flotilla". The Navy List. July 1918. p. 19. Retrieved 1 April 2020 – via National Library of Scotland.
  30. ^ "Ships of the Royal Navy - Location/Action Data, 1914-1918: Admiralty "Pink Lists", 11 November 1918". Naval-history.net. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  31. ^ Dittmar & Colledge 1972, p. 57

Bibliography edit

  • Brassey, T.A. (1902). The Naval Annual 1902. Portsmouth, UK: J. Griffin and Co.
  • Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M, eds. (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
  • Corbett, Julian S. (1920). History of the Great War: Naval Operations: Vol. I: To the Battle of the Falklands December 1914. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. Shepperton, UK: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0380-7.
  • Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
  • Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
  • Lyon, David (2001). The First Destroyers. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-3648.
  • Manning, T.D. (1961). The British Destroyer. London: Putnam. OCLC 6470051.
  • March, Edgar J. (1966). British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892–1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans. London: Seeley Service. OCLC 164893555.
  • Monograph No. 7: The Patrol Flotillas at the Commencement of the War (PDF). Naval Staff Monographs (Historical). Vol. III. The Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division. 1921. pp. 71–107.

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For other ships with the same name see HMS Earnest HMS Earnest was an thirty knotter torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy She was built by Laird Son amp Company at their Birkenhead shipyard as one of six Earnest class destroyers ordered as part of the Royal Navy s 1895 1896 construction programme which were later classified as members of the B class Earnest was launched on 7 November 1896 and was completed in November 1897 History United Kingdom NameHMS Earnest BuilderLaird Son amp Co Birkenhead Laid down2 March 1896 Launched7 November 1896 CompletedNovember 1897 FateScrapped 1920 General characteristics Class and typeEarnest class destroyer Displacement395 long tons 401 t Length210 ft 64 m Beam21 5 ft 6 6 m Draught9 75 ft 3 0 m Propulsionvertical triple expansion steam engines Coal fired Normand boilers 6 300 hp 4 698 kW Speed30 knots 56 km h 35 mph Complement63 Armament1 QF 12 pounder gun 2 18 inch 450 mm torpedo tubes Earnest served in the Mediterranean from 1898 to 1907 before returning to Britain She remained in service in the First World War being employed on patrol and convoy escort duties in the North Sea and Irish Sea Earnest was sold for scrap on 7 January 1920 Contents 1 Design and construction 2 Service 3 Pennant numbers 4 References 5 BibliographyDesign and construction editEarnest was ordered on 23 December 1895 as the first of six 30 knotter destroyers programmed to be built by Lairds under the 1895 1896 shipbuilding programme for the Royal Navy 1 These followed on from four very similar destroyers ordered from Lairds as part of the 1894 1895 programme 2 Earnest was 218 feet 66 45 m long overall and 213 feet 64 92 m between perpendiculars with a beam of 21 feet 6 inches 6 55 m and a draught of 9 feet 9 inches 2 97 m Displacement was 355 long tons 361 t light and 415 long tons 422 t full load Like the other Laird built 30 knotters Locust was propelled by two triple expansion steam engines fed by four Normand boilers rated at 6 300 ihp 4 700 kW and was fitted with four funnels 2 3 Armament was the standard for the 30 knotters i e a QF 12 pounder 12 cwt 3 in 76 mm calibre gun on a platform on the ship s conning tower in practice the platform was also used as the ship s bridge with a secondary armament of five 6 pounder guns and two 18 inch 450 mm torpedo tubes 4 5 The ship had a crew of 63 officers and men 6 Earnest was laid down at Laird s Birkenhead shipyard as Yard number 621 on 2 March 1896 and was launched on 7 November 1896 1 Earnest reached 30 13 knots 55 80 km h 34 67 mph during sea trials 7 She was completed in November 1897 1 Service editIn 1897 Earnest was in reserve at Devonport 8 She was transferred to the Mediterranean Squadron in September 1898 1 and was in August 1901 recommissioned at Malta as tender to the battleship HMS Caesar 9 Lieutenant Philip Agnew Bateman Champain was in command from November 1901 She visited Greek waters including Nauplia in September 1902 10 and in early January 1903 took part in a three weeks cruise with other ships of the squadron in the Greek islands around Corfu 11 Earnest returned to Home waters in 1907 1 Earnest was a member of the Eastern group of destroyers based at Harwich in 1908 entering refit at Chatham Dockyard in September that year 12 In February 1910 Earnest by now a member of the Nore Destroyer Flotilla was again under refit at Chatham 13 On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyers were to be grouped into classes designated by letters based on contract speed and appearance As a four funneled 30 knotter destroyer Earnest was assigned to the B Class 14 15 In 1912 older destroyers were transferred to patrol flotillas 16 with Earnest forming part of the 7th Destroyer Flotilla based at Devonport by March 1913 17 In November 1913 Earnest was under repair at Sheerness Dockyard following a collision with another destroyer 18 Earnest remained part of the 7th Flotilla on the eve of the First World War in July 1914 19 At the outbreak of war the 7th Flotilla was redeployed to the Humber River for operations off the East coast of Britain 20 21 Duties of the Flotilla were to prevent enemy ships from carrying out minelaying or torpedo attacks in the approaches to ports on the East coast and to prevent raids by enemy ships 22 Earnest was still part of the 7th Flotilla in June 1917 23 while in July was listed as part of the East Coast Convoy Flotilla 24 although in August Earnest had returned to the 7th Flotilla which was recorded as being involved in East Coast Convoys 25 By October Earnest was listed as being part of the Local Defence Flotilla for the Nore 26 where she remained in February 1918 27 By March Earnest was one of seven destroyers making up the Irish Sea Flotilla 28 which by July had been renamed the Irish Sea Hunting Flotilla 29 She remained part of the Irish Sea Hunting Flotilla at the end of the war in November 1918 and was based at Kingstown now Dun Laoghaire in the South of Ireland 30 Earnest was sold for scrap to the shipbreakers S Castle of Plymouth on 7 January 1920 1 Pennant numbers editPennant number 31 From To D05 1914 September 1915 D79 September 1915 January 1918 D29 January 1918References edit a b c d e f Lyon 2001 p 62 a b Lyon 2001 pp 61 62 Chesneau amp Kolesnik 1979 p 94 Lyon 2001 pp 98 99 Friedman 2009 p 40 Manning 1961 p 40 Brassey 1902 p 275 Naval Matters Past and Prospective Devonport Dockyard The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect 1 October 1897 p 264 Naval amp Military intelligence The Times No 36533 London 14 August 1901 p 4 Naval amp Military intelligence The Times No 36893 London 8 October 1902 p 4 Naval amp Military intelligence The Times No 36983 London 21 January 1903 p 8 Naval Matters Past and Prospective Chatham Dockyard The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect Vol 31 October 1908 p 73 Naval Matters Past and Prospective Chatham Dockyard The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect Vol 32 March 1910 p 308 Gardiner amp Gray 1985 p 18 Manning 1961 pp 17 18 Manning 1961 p 25 Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad Patrol Flotillas The Monthly Naval List March 1913 p 269d Retrieved 31 March 2020 via National Library of Scotland Naval Matters Past and Prospective Sheerness Dockyard The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect Vol 36 November 1913 p 116 Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad Patrol Flotillas The Navy List August 1914 p 269c Retrieved 31 March 2020 via National Library of Scotland Manning 1961 p 26 Corbett 1920 pp 15 16 Naval Staff Monograph No 7 1921 pp 75 76 Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad VI Vessels Under Rear Admiral Commanding East Coat of England The Navy List June 1917 p 16 Retrieved 31 March 2020 via National Library of Scotland Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad VI Vessels Under Rear Admiral Commanding East Coat of England The Navy List July 1917 p 16 Retrieved 31 March 2020 via National Library of Scotland Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad VI Vessels Under Rear Admiral Commanding East Coat of England The Navy List August 1917 p 16 Retrieved 1 April 2020 via National Library of Scotland Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad VIII Local Defence Flotillas The Navy List October 1917 p 18 Retrieved 1 April 2020 via National Library of Scotland Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad VIII Local Defence Flotillas The Navy List February 1918 p 18 Retrieved 1 April 2020 via National Library of Scotland Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad IX Irish Sea Flotilla The Navy List March 1918 p 19 Retrieved 1 April 2020 via National Library of Scotland Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad IX Irish Sea Hunting Flotilla The Navy List July 1918 p 19 Retrieved 1 April 2020 via National Library of Scotland Ships of the Royal Navy Location Action Data 1914 1918 Admiralty Pink Lists 11 November 1918 Naval history net 24 March 2015 Retrieved 1 April 2020 Dittmar amp Colledge 1972 p 57Bibliography editBrassey T A 1902 The Naval Annual 1902 Portsmouth UK J Griffin and Co Chesneau Roger Kolesnik Eugene M eds 1979 Conway s All The World s Fighting Ships 1860 1905 London Conway Maritime Press ISBN 0 85177 133 5 Colledge J J Warlow Ben 2006 1969 Ships of the Royal Navy The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy Rev ed London Chatham Publishing ISBN 978 1 86176 281 8 Corbett Julian S 1920 History of the Great War Naval Operations Vol I To the Battle of the Falklands December 1914 London Longmans Green and Co Dittmar F J Colledge J J 1972 British Warships 1914 1919 Shepperton UK Ian Allan ISBN 0 7110 0380 7 Friedman Norman 2009 British Destroyers From Earliest Days to the Second World War Barnsley UK Seaforth Publishing ISBN 978 1 84832 049 9 Gardiner Robert Gray Randal eds 1985 Conway s All The World s Fighting Ships 1906 1921 London Conway Maritime Press ISBN 0 85177 245 5 Lyon David 2001 The First Destroyers London Caxton Editions ISBN 1 84067 3648 Manning T D 1961 The British Destroyer London Putnam OCLC 6470051 March Edgar J 1966 British Destroyers A History of Development 1892 1953 Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records amp Returns Ships Covers amp Building Plans London Seeley Service OCLC 164893555 Monograph No 7 The Patrol Flotillas at the Commencement of the War PDF Naval Staff Monographs Historical Vol III The Naval Staff Training and Staff Duties Division 1921 pp 71 107 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title HMS Earnest 1896 amp oldid 1207761220, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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