Career
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	1891
Commissioned:	1891
Fate:	Sunk 15 October 1914
General Characteristics
Displacement:	7,350 tons
Length:	360 ft
Beam:	60 ft
Draught:	24
Propulsion:	2 shafts, 12,000 hp
Speed:	20 knots
Range:
Complement:	544
Armament:

HMS Hawke, launched in 1891, was the nineteenth British warship to be named Hawke. She was an Edgar class cruiser, a 12-gun twin-screw protected cruiser displacing 7,350 tons. The twin screws delivered 12,000 horsepower giving a top speed of 20 kt (37 km/h). Image File history File links Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years). ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Edgar-class was a nine-ship class of armoured cruiser built around 1891 for the Royal Navy. ... A schematic section of a protected cruiser illustrating the protection scheme. ... hp, see HP (disambiguation). ...

Service

In 1897-1898 Hawke, under the command of Captain Sir Richard Poore, was in action in the Mediterranean in the operations which led to the pacification of Crete and the appointment of Prince George of Greece as High Commissioner under the suzerainty of the Sultan of Turkey. At one point she was used as a troopship, taking on a Greek military force in Platania Bay and transporting them back to Greece. For the famous World War II battle, see: Battle of Crete For other uses, see Crete (disambiguation). ... His Royal Highness Prince George of Greece and Denmark (24 June 1869, Corfu – 25 November 1957, St Cloud) was the third child of King George I of Greece and Grand Duchess Olga. ... Suzerainty refers to a situation in which a region or people is a tributary to a more powerful entity which allows the tributary some limited domestic autonomy but controls its foreign affairs. ... Sultan (Arabic: سلطان) is an Islamic title, with several historical meanings. ...

Collision with the Titanic

On 20 September 1911, HMS Hawke, under command of Commander W.F. Blunt, collided in the Solent with the White Star liner RMS Olympic. In the course of the collision Hawke lost her prow. (This was replaced by a straight bow). The subsequent trial pronounced Hawke to be free from any blame. During the trial a theory was advanced that the large amount of water displaced by the Titanic had generated a suction that had drawn Hawke off course. Appeal after appeal followed the decision of the first court to try the case. September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Satellite image showing the Solent, separating the Isle of Wight from mainland Britain The Solent is a stretch of sea separating the Isle of Wight from the mainland of Great Britain. ... White Star Line logo and burgee. ... RMS Olympic (or SS Olympic) was the first of her class of ocean liners built for the White Star Line, which also included the ill-fated Titanic and Britannic. ...

During 1914, at the start of the First World War, the Hawke, commanded by Captain Hugh P.E.T. Williams, was engaged in various operations in the North Sea. On 15 October, out on patrol Hawke was torpedoed by a German submarine U 9. Her sister ship HMS Theseus, which was in company, was attacked at the same time but was undamaged. The Hawke sank in a few minutes, with the loss of her Captain, 26 officers and 500 men - only 4 officers and about 60 men were saved. Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nikolay II Aleksey Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Robert Nivelle Herbert H. Asquith D. Lloyd George Sir Douglas Haig Sir John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years). ... German UC-1 class World War I submarine A model of Günther Priens Unterseeboot 47 (U-47), German WWII Type VII diesel-electric hunter Typhoon class nuclear ballistic missile submarine USS Virginia, a Virginia-class nuclear attack (SSN) submarine A submarine is a watercraft that can operate underwater... Unterseeboot 9 has been the designation of two U-boats. ... HMS Theseus was an Edgar-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy. ...

External links

• Encyclopedia Titanica: HMS Hawke

See also

See HMS Hawke for other ships of the same name.