HMS Test (1905)
{{Short description|British Navy vessel}}
{{Other ships|HMS Test}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United Kingdom | Ship flag= File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg | Ship name=Test | Ship ordered= | Ship builder= Cammell Laird, Birkenhead | Ship laid down=December 1904 | Ship launched=6 May 1905 | Ship acquired=1908 – 1909 Naval Estimates | Ship commissioned=December 1905 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= Laid up in reserve 1919 | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship fate= 30 August 1919 sold to Loveridge and Company for breaking | Ship honours= | Ship badge= | Ship motto= | Ship identification= | Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header=no |Header caption= |Ship class= Laird-type River-class destroyer{{cite book|last=Jane|first=Fred T.|title=Jane's Fighting Ships 1905/6|orig-year=1905|year=1969|publisher=first published by Sampson Low Marston, London 1905, Reprinted ARCO Publishing Company|location=New York|page=75}}{{cite book|last=Jane|first=Fred T.|title=Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I|year= 1990|publisher=Jane’s Publishing © 1919|isbn=978-1-85170-378-4|page=76}} |Ship displacement=*{{Convert|550|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} standard
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|Ship speed= {{convert|25.5|kn|km/h|abbr=on}} |Ship range=*140 tons coal
| Ship complement= 70 officers and men | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=* 1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I, mounting P Mark I
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HMS Test was a Laird-type River-class destroyer purchased by the Royal Navy under the 1908–1909 Naval Estimates in December 1909. Named after the River Test in southern England by the city of Southampton, she was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy.
Construction
Built on speculation, she was laid down in December 1904 at the Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead and launched on 6 May 1905. She was purchased and completed in December 1909.
Pre-War
Upon commissioning she was assigned to the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla based at Harwich. She remained until displaced by a Basilisk-class destroyer by May 1912. She went into reserve assigned to the 5th Destroyer Flotilla of the 2nd Fleet with a nucleus crew.
On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyer classes were to be designated by alpha characters starting with the letter 'A'. The ships of the River class were assigned to the E class. After 30 September 1913, she was known as an E-class destroyer and had the letter ‘E’ painted on the hull below the bridge area and on either the fore or aft funnel.{{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906 to 1922|orig-year=1985|year= 2006|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|isbn=0-85177-245-5|page=Page 17 to 19}}
World War I
In early 1914 when displaced by G-class destroyers she joined the 9th Destroyer Flotilla based at Chatham tendered to HMS St George. The 9th Flotilla was a patrol flotilla tasked with anti-submarine and counter-mining patrols in the Firth of Forth area.{{cite web|title=Naval Database|url=http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/T/04626.html}}
On 16 December 1914 under division leader Doon along with Waveney, Test and Moy were sent to patrol off Hartlepool. During the German battle-cruiser raid on Hartlepool, she was undamaged and suffered no casualties during the engagement.{{cite web|title=Raid on Hartlepool from Naval History.net|url=http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishBVLSaRN1408.htm|access-date=1 Jun 2013}}{{cite web|title=Naval Review Volume VII, No 2, May 1919, Pages 247 to 254|url=http://www.naval-review.org/issues/1919-2.pdf|access-date=1 Jun 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221015757/http://www.naval-review.org/issues/1919-2.pdf|archive-date=2013-12-21}}
In August 1915 with the amalgamation of the 9th and 7th Flotillas she was deployed to the 7th Destroyer Flotilla based at the River Humber. She remained employed on the Humber Patrol participating in counter-mining operations and anti-submarine patrols for the remainder of the war.{{cite web|title=History of the Great War, Naval Operations, Volume III, Spring 1915 to June 1916 (Part 1 of 2), by Sir Julian S Corbett, Chapter XIII, Loss of Argyl and Natal|url=http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Book-RN3a.htm#13|access-date=1 Jun 2013}}
Disposition
In 1919 Test was paid off and laid up in reserve awaiting disposal. On 30 August 1919 she was sold to Loveridge and Company for breaking.{{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
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- {{cite book|last1=Dittmar|first1=F.J.|last2=Colledge|first2=J. J.|title=British Warships 1914–1919|year=1972|publisher=Ian Allan|location=Shepperton, UK|isbn=0-7110-0380-7}}
- {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War|year=2009|publisher=Seaforth Publishing|location=Barnsley, UK|isbn=978-1-84832-049-9}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Gray|editor2-first=Randal|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-245-5|name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite book|last=Manning|first=T. D.|title=The British Destroyer|year=1961|publisher=Putnam & Co.|location=London|oclc= 6470051}}
- {{cite book|last=March|first=Edgar J.|title=British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892–1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans|year=1966|publisher=Seeley Service|location=London |oclc=164893555}}
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Category:River-class destroyers