HMS Cheerful
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HMS Cheerful was a 30-knot, three-funnel torpedo boat destroyer built by Hawthorn Leslie. She was ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1896–1897 Naval Estimates, launched in 1898, and saw action during World War I. She was mined off the Shetland Islands in 1917 and sank with the loss of 44 officers and men.
1897
Wikidata
D49; HMS Cheerful - Canmore 238458
R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Royal Navy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Location: 60.0412, -1.1519, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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1897 HMS Cheerful
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ship launching
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keel laying
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ship commissioning
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| link | page | Canmore page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | Canmore page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | Dreadnought Project page@ | Wikidata | ||
| site | artillery battery | Ness of Sound, coastal battery 470m SE of | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | The Knab, coastal battery, 150m S of War Memorial | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Aerial View, battle headquarters 200m NE of | air-raid shelter | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Charlotte | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | in-use buildings within Fort Charlotte, Lerwick | fort | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | HMS Rondo | naval trawler, shipwreck | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | MTB 626 | motor torpedo boat, shipwreck | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | MTB 686 | motor torpedo boat, shipwreck | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | 1897 | HMS Cheerful | shipwreck, destroyer, C-class destroyer, Mermaid-class destroyer | Wikidata |