The
H.M.S. SUPERB (CRUISER) ASSOCIATION
ALL (OR NEARLY ALL) YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT THE BRITISH NAVY SHIPS NAMED "SUPERB"
Site updated on
16 February, 2025
PICTURE GALLERY - SUPERB
Pictures of the various ships who carried the name Superb
Commanding Officers
the portraits are not necessarily showing their rank whilst on board
French Navy
André-Charles Théodore
Du Pont d'Aubervoye
British Royal Navy
64-gun (third rate) ship of
1,000 tons (1710)
Commanding Officers
(including Commanders in Chief)
(64 Gun 3rd Rate refitted to 60 Gun 4th Rate 1710 - 1757)
September 1710 - 1711 Captain William Elford
1711 - Captain James Moneypenny
1717 - 1718 Captain George Sanders
14 March 1718 - c. 1719 Captain Streynsham Master
1718- Lieutenant Thomas Arnold
1720 - 1725 Captain Arthur Field
1726 - 1727 Captain John Price
1727 - 22 April 1729 Captain Edward St Lo
April 1729 - Captain Peter Solgard
c.1741 - 1742 Captain William Hervey (subsequently cashiered)
1745 - Vice Admiral Peter Warren
Captain William Hervey
1740 - 1742
Vice Admiral Sir Peter Warren KB
1745 - ?
3rd rate of 1600 tons with 74 guns (1760)
Commanding Officers
(including Commanders in Chief)
(74 Gun 3rd Rate 1760 - 1783)
1781 - Jan 1783 Sir Richard John Strachan, GCB
1782 Vice Admiral Sir Edward Hughes
Sept 1782 Captain James Watt,
7 July 1782 - 11 July 1783 Captain Henry Newcome
Admiral, Sir Edward Hughes
1782 - ?
74-gun frigate of 1,900 tons (1796)
Commanding Officers
(including Commanders in Chief)
(Frigate 74 Gun 1796 - 1826)
March 1801 - 1807 Admiral Richard Goodwin Keats
1805 - April 1806 Vice Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth GCB
1807 Captain Donald M'Leod
Sept 1812 - 1814 Sir Charles Paget, GCH
Aug 1819 - May 1825 Vice Admiral, Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, GCB
1844 - 1845 Rear Admiral Armar Lowry Corry
22 April 1850 - 15 January 1851 Commander John Richard Alexander
Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin keats, KCB
March 1801 - 1807
Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth
1805 - April 1806
Vice Admiral Sir Charles Paget GCH
Sept 1812 - 1814
Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Bart KCB
Aug 1819 - May 1825
Rear Admiral Armar Lowry Corry
1844 - 1845
Ironclad of 9,000 tons (1875)
Commanding Officers
(including Commanders in Chief)
1882 - Admiral Thomas Le Hunte Warde CB
Believed to be Admiral Thomas Le Hunte Warde CB
1882 - ?
Battleship of 18,600 tons (1907)
Commanding Officers
(including Commanders in Chief)
(Battleship 1907 - 1920)
May 1909 - August 1910 Captain Frederick C.Tudor Tudor
August 1910 - September 1911 Captain Herbert L. Heath
September 1911 - April 1913 Captain Ernest F.A. Gaunt
April 1913 - July 1914 Captain George P.W. Hope
July - November 1914 Captain Price Vaughan Lewes
November 1914 - February 1915 Captain Rudolf W. Bentinck
20 February 1915 - January 1918 Captain Edmond Hyde Parker
2 January - 3 April 1918 Captain Sidney R. Drury-Lowe
22 June 1918 - 15 December 1918 Captain Stephen H. Radcliffe
January - December 1919 Captain Francis G.G. Chilton
July 1917 - 1919 Vice-Admiral, The Hon. Sir Somerset A. Gough- Calthorpe
15 December 1919 - 20 April 1920 Captain Charles W. Bruton
Admiral Sir Frederick Charles TudorTudor
KCB KCMG as Vice-Admiral
May 1909-August 1910
Admiral Sir Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt KBE as Rear-Admiral
September 1911-April 1913
Vice Admiral,Sir Herbert Leopold Heath, K.C.B., M.V.O
August 1910-September 1911
Admiral Sir George Price Webley Hope, K.C.B., K.C.M.G as Rear Admiral
April 1913-July 1914
Admiral Edmond Hyde Parker, C.B.
20 Feb, 1915 – Jan, 1918
Vice-Admiral The Hon Sir Somerset A. Gough-Calthorpe
July 1917 - 1919
Rear Admiral Alexander Duff GCB GBE KCVO
1916
Captain Sidney Robert Drury-Lowe, CMG
January-April 1918
Cruiser (1943)
Commanding Officers
(including Commanders in Chief)
(Cruiser 1943 - 1958)
June 1945 - April 1947 Captain W. Geoffrey A. Robson
April 1947 - December 1948 Captain Raymond M. T. Taylor
December 1948 -January 1950 Captain Alan K. Scott-Moncrieff
January - November 1950 Captain Sir Anthony W. Buzzard, Bt.
November 1950 - June 1951 Captain W. John Yendell
June 1951 - September 1952 Captain Edward W. J. Bankes
Oct 1951 - 1952 Admiral Sir William Gerrard Andrewes, KBE CB DSO
September 1952 - April 1954 Captain Richard G. Tosswill
December 1955 - 1957 Captain Earl Cairns
Feb 1958 Lieutenant Commander K. Bannar-Martin, DSC
Admiral Sir Angus E. M. B. Cunninghame Graham KBE CB
1946
Captain Sir Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff KCB CBE DSO
December 1948-January 1950
Vice Admiral Sir Herbert Annesley Packer KCB, CBE
1948
Rear Admiral Sir William Geofrey Arthur Robson KBE CB DSO DSC
June 1945-April 1947
Rear Admiral William John Yendell CB
November 1950-June 1951
Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Wass Buzzard, CB, DSO, OBE
January-November 1950
Admiral Sir William Gerrard Andrewes
KBE CB DSO
Oct 1951 - 1952
Commodore Donald H. Connell-Fuller
April 1954-December 1955
Commodore Richard Gibson Tosswill OBE
30 September, 1952 to 9 April, 1954
Captain David Charles Cairns
5th Earl Cairns, GCVO, CB
December 1955-1957
Vice Admiral Sir John Edward Ludgate Martin KCB DSC
Jan 1956 - Jan 1957
Submarine
Commanding Officers
(including Commanders in Chief)
(Nuclear Powered Submarine 1974 - 2008)
1977 - 1977 Commander D I Ramsay RN
1977 - 1979 Vice Admiral, Sir Geoffrey William Roger Biggs KCB
1979 - 1981 Admiral of the Fleet, Michael Cecil Boyce, Bt KG, GCB, OBE, DL
1981 - 1983 Admiral Sir James Francis Perowne KBE
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1992 - 1994 Commander S.T. Williams
c. 1995 Vice Admiral Peter John Wilkinson CB CVO
1999 - 2001 Commander D.J. Pollock
2001 - 2002 Commander N.J. Hibberd
2005 - 2008 Lieutenant Commander John Aitken
2008 - 2008 Commander Steven Drysdale RN
Commander David Ramsey
Rear Admiral,Sir Geoffrey William Roger Biggs KCB
1977 - 1979
Admiral of the Fleet Michael Cecil Boyce, Baron Boyce KG, GCB, OBE, DL
1979 - 1981
Admiral Sir James Francis Perowne KBE
1981 - 1983
Lieutenant Commander John Aitken
December 2005 - October 2008
Vice Admiral Peter John Wilkinson CB CVO
c. 1995
Commander Steven Drysdale
2008 - 2008