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HMS ''Pincher'' was a coal-fired destroyer of the Royal Navy built by William Denny and Brothers and launched on 15 March 1910. ==Service history== ''Pincher'' spent the early part of the First World War in a local defence flotilla operating out of Portsmouth,〔''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'', (March, 1915) p. 16.〕 but by June 1915 had joined the 5th Destroyer Flotilla in the Aegean Sea,〔''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'', (June, 1915) p. 20.〕 operating with them until December 1917.〔''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'', (December, 1917) p. 21.〕 In January 1918, she was moved to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, operating for a half year with the Northern Division of the Coast of Ireland Station.〔''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'', (January, 1918) p. 17.〕 On 15 May 1918, ''Pincher'' was reassigned to the 4th Destroyer Flotilla at Devonport.〔''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'', (June, 1918) p. 17.〕 On 24 July 1918, whilst escorting the Standard Tanker ''War Hostage'' from Devonport through the Western Approaches with , ''Pincher'' took a course that brought her dangerously close to the Seven Stones Reef, between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (the reef that would claim the supertanker ''Torrey Canyon'' in 1967). Errors in navigation due to fog compounded the error and ''Pincher'' struck the reef at high speed. The impact tore open her hull and she sank at 03:33 hours. After the accident, her commander — Lieutenant Patrick W.R. Weir — was subjected to a court-martial, at which he was sentenced to be reprimanded for steering an unsafe course. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Pincher (1910)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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