HMS Lee (1899)
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Lee |
Ordered | 1898 – 1899 Naval Estimates |
Builder | Sunderland |
Laid down | 4 January 1898 |
Launched | 27 January 1899 |
Commissioned | March 1901 |
Fate | 5 October 1909 wrecked off Blacksod Bay on the west coast of Ireland |
General characteristics | |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h) |
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Complement | 63 officers and men |
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Service record |
HMS Lee was a
Construction and career
She was laid down on 4 January 1898 at the
After commissioning she was deployed to the Channel Fleet and based at Shearness as part of the Medway Instructional Flotilla. In December 1901 she was replaced in the flotilla by Mermaid, her crew was transferred to the latter ship,[5] and she paid off into the Fleet Reserve.[6]
On 14 July 1907, Lee, which had been operating with the Channel Fleet, collided with the Dutch protected cruiser Friesland off Start Point, Devon, holing the destroyer on her port quarter.[7]
On 5 October 1909 she was wrecked off Blacksod Bay on the west coast of Ireland.[8]
Pennant Numbers
During her career she was not assigned a pennant (pendant) number.[8]
References
NOTE: All tabular data under General Characteristics only from the listed Jane's Fighting Ships volume unless otherwise specified
- ^ Jane, Fred T. (1969) [1905]. Jane’s Fighting Ships 1905. New York: first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1905, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company. p. 77.
- ISBN 1 85170 378 0.
- ^ a b Jane, Fred T. (1969) [1898]. Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships 1898. New York: first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1898, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company. p. 84 to 85.
- ^ ISBN 1 85170 378 0.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36639. London. 16 December 1901. p. 10.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36641. London. 18 December 1901. p. 6.
- ^ "Naval Matters—Past and Prospective". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 30. 1 August 1907. p. 15.
- ^ a b ""Arrowsmith" List – Part 1 Destroyer Prototypes through "River" Class". Retrieved 1 June 2013.
Bibliography
- 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.
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- 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) [1996]. The First Destroyers. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-3648.
- Manning, T. D. (1961). The British Destroyer. London: Putnam & Co. 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.