HMS Mallard (1896)
{{short description|Destroyer of the Royal Navy}}
{{other ships|HMS Mallard}}
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HMS Mallard was a two funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1894 – 1895 Naval Estimates. She served in Home waters both before and during the First World War, and was sold for breaking in 1920.
Construction
She was laid down as yard number 308 on 15 September 1895 at the John I. Thornycroft & Company shipyard at Chiswick on the River Thames. She was launched on 19 November 1896. During her builder's trials her maximum average speed was 30.1 knots. She had her armament fitted at Portsmouth, was completed and was accepted by the Royal Navy in October 1897.
Pre-War
After commissioning she was assigned to the Chatham Division of the Harwich Flotilla.
Lieutenant Guy de Lancy Ormsby Johnson was appointed in command on 11 January 1900,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=20 January 1900 |page=12 |issue=36044}} when she served as part of the Medway instructional flotilla.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=22 February 1900 |page=10 |issue=36072 }} In April 1900 she was present at an accident at Brighton's West Pier, when seven sailors from {{HMS|Desperate|1896|6}} were drowned in bad weather as they approached the pier.{{cite news | title = Disaster to Bluejackets - Boat Swamped at Brighton - Seven Seamen Drowned. | newspaper = News of the World | date = 15 April 1900}}{{cite web | title = HMS Bittern | publisher = Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels and a few of their movements | url = http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/B/00569.html | access-date = 13 January 2014 | archive-date = 10 August 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170810141406/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/B/00569.html | url-status = dead }}
Lieutenant Charles Tuthill Borrett was appointed in command on 20 January 1901,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=10 January 1901 |page=8 |issue=36348}} and she served in Home waters and was until October 1901 attached to the Medway instructional flotilla.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=9 October 1901 |page=8 |issue=36581}} In early April 1902 Lieutenant George J. Todd was appointed in command,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=14 March 1902 |page=9 |issue=36715}} shortly before she finished a refit where she also had her hull strengthened.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=11 March 1902 |page=11 |issue=36712}} She was commissioned for service in the Mediterranean Fleet,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=2 April 1902 |page=8 |issue=36731}} and left Portsmouth for Gibraltar in late May 1902,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=2 June 1902 |page=9 |issue=36783}} arriving at Malta in July.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=12 July 1902 |page=9 |issue=36818}} She was reported to visit Greek waters (including Nauplia) in September 1902.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=8 October 1902 |page=4 |issue=36893}}
On the night of 22 November 1910, Mallard collided with the destroyer {{HMS|Stag|1899|2}}, with both destroyers suffering damaged stems. The cruisers {{HMS|Aboukir|1900|2}} and {{HMS|Bacchante|1901|2}} went to the assistance of the two damaged destroyers, which were taken into Syracuse, Sicily for repair.{{cite news |title=Destroyers in Collision |newspaper=The Times |date=24 November 1910 |issue=39228|page=8}} On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed that all destroyer classes were to be designated by letters. Since her design speed was 30-knots and she had two funnels she was assigned to the D class; the three and four-funnel 30-knotters becoming the C and B classes.{{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|isbn=0 85177 245 5|page=17}} After 30 September 1913, she was known as a D-class destroyer and had the letter ‘D’ painted on the hull below the bridge area and on either the fore or aft funnel
First World War
In July 1914 she was in active commission assigned to the 8th Destroyer Flotilla based at Sheerness tendered to the destroyer depot ship {{HMS|Tyne|1878|2}}.{{cite web|title=HMS Mallard at the Naval Database website|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/M/02867.html|access-date=20 June 2013|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924065844/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/M/02867.html|url-status=dead}} In August 1914 the 8th was redeployed to the River Tyne and employed on anti-submarine and counter-mining patrols.
In November 1917 she deployed to the Irish Sea Hunting Flotilla until the cessation of hostilities providing anti-submarine and counter-smuggling patrols.
Fate
In 1919 she was paid off and laid-up in reserve awaiting disposal. Mallard was sold on 10 February 1920 to Alloa Ship Breaking Company for breaking at Charlestown.{{cite web|title="Arrowsmith" List – Part 1 Destroyer Prototypes through "River" Class|url=http://www.gwpda.org/naval/s0420000.htm|access-date=1 Jun 2013}}
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References
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Bibliography
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{{D class destroyer}}
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Category:Ships built in Chiswick
Category:D-class destroyers (1913)