Adventure Class light cruiser HMS Attentive.
HMS
Attentive went into reserve fleet at the Nore on completion in June
1906. In march 1907 she was commissioned at Chatham for the Nore
division of the Home Fleet. On the afternoon of the 27th April 1908 , the eastern
destroyer Flotilla, consisting of 15 vessels, in company with the scouts
HMS Adventure and HMS Attentive, left Harwich for the purpose of
firing exercise and night ,maneuvers. a little after midnight all the
vessels having their lights masked, HMS Gala
one of the destroyers came into collision with HMS Attentive being
struck by the latter's ram in the after part of the engine room and cut in
two. Fortunately in this case all the crew were saved, except Engineer
Lieutenant F A Fletcher, who was drowned. HMS Attentive afterwards came
into collision with another of the destroyers HMS
Ribble which received damage sufficiently serious to oblige her to put
back to sheerness. The fore part of HMS Gala sunk almost immediately, but
the after part, with all the crew clinging to it remained afloat for
some time, sinking while an attempt was being made to tow it into shallow
water. HMS Attentive was re commissioned at Chatham in July 1909 and
became leader for the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, transferring in 1910 to the
2nd Destroyer flotilla recommissioned at Devonport in October 1911
and went into refit in August 1912, after which she joined the 3rd
Light Cruiser squadron for the annual maneuvers in 1913. In July 1913 she
joined the 1st destroyer Flotilla. Joining in 1914 the 6th destroyer Flotilla
at Dover. Spending most of the war years as part of the Dover patrol (except
April 1914 when she went to Ulster) On the 25th April 1918 she took
part in the Zeebrugge raid. this was followed by escorting duties for
Convoys going to Gibraltar. spending the following couple of months Off
north Russia. finally paid off in December 1918. and scrapped April
1920.
Displacement:
2640 tons, Speed: 25 Knots, Compliment: 268 Armament: ten 12 pdr QF,
Eight 2 pdr, Two 18-inch Torpedo Tubes
