jbw541 Posted 5 March , 2016 Share Posted 5 March , 2016 Hello, I`ve found this photo of, what I think is, a WW1 Destroyer. Can anyone help in identifying this ship and what message do the flags convey? Thanks. Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldrake Posted 6 March , 2016 Share Posted 6 March , 2016 Is it an Acheron Class Destroyer? I canto find the nclass number but that looks like a post WW1 number. The flags are being used as decorative bunting for some ceremonial event. They have not meaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 6 March , 2016 Share Posted 6 March , 2016 Yes, the ship is 'dressed overall' for a fleet review, monarch's accession day / birthday, Empire Day or some such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 6 March , 2016 Share Posted 6 March , 2016 Can anyone tell me whether the number on a ship's side at this time related to the number of the ship's listing in the Navy List? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horatio2 Posted 6 March , 2016 Share Posted 6 March , 2016 There is no connection between pennant numbers and Navy List numbers (which are in alpha-order of ship names). I'm inclining more towards an early, two-funnelled 'L' Class destroyer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 6 March , 2016 Share Posted 6 March , 2016 Thanks Horatio2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbw541 Posted 6 March , 2016 Author Share Posted 6 March , 2016 Thank you. Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikB Posted 6 March , 2016 Share Posted 6 March , 2016 HMS Hornet was carrying that pennant no. in 1918. However, her bridge looks slightly different in Wikipedia's tiny photo, as well as possibly her fore funnel. She'd been damaged in a scrap with Austro-Hungarian destroyers in the Adriatic, so may have been refitted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 9 March , 2016 Share Posted 9 March , 2016 It might be an Acheron (I) class, but looks more like an L class, as suggested by horatio2. Source: Warships of World War 1 (combined volume) by H M le Fleming - which I happened to buy on Amazon last week! Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CULVERIN Posted 9 March , 2016 Share Posted 9 March , 2016 The image in lead post is HMS Acheron herself and lead ship of the 20 strong I (capital letter I) or Acheron class. Her pendant 42 is a Mediterranean number issued from 1917 to all British, Australian, Japanese destroyers operating in this theatre and its environs and through to 1919. There are no officially published pendants for these destroyers in any form, even Dittmar & Colledge don't list any. All were either 2 numerals, like Acheron 42, or 1 numeral followed by flag inferior A, which is possibly for Adriatic.There were duplications. These pendants are nothing to do with any destroyer pendants in any of the Home based ships, where once in the Med, they were all changed to the format i have mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbw541 Posted 21 March , 2016 Author Share Posted 21 March , 2016 Thank you everyone. Joe, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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