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Destroyer (modified "W" class)
1942/43 altered to long-range escort

4th Flotilla, Mediterranean

 (08.1929) - (02.1931)

Reserve Fleet, The Nore

 (09.1932) - (01.1934)

Maintenance Reserve, Rosyth

 (07.1935) - (02.1937)

Reserve Fleet, The Nore

 (08.1939) -
Displacement 1,120 tons (1,508 tons full load)
Displacement (after alteration) 1,730-1,760 tons full load
Dimensions 300 (pp)/312 (oa) x 29.5 x 18.25d/8.5 (11.75 full load) feet
Machinery three Yarrow water-tube boilers (250lb/in2), two shafts, Brown-Curtis geared turbines, 27,000 SHP = 34 (32 full load) knots
Machinery (after alteration) forward boiler room was replaced by extra fuel tanks, SHP became 15,000 = 25 knots
Bunkers & radius OF 367 tons, 3,2000/600 nm @ 15/32k
Bunkers & radius (after alteration) OF 445 tons
Armament 4 (4x1) - 4.7 inch, 2 (2x1) - 2 pdr AA, 5 (5x1) - .303 inch AA machine guns, 6 (2x3) 21 inch TT
Armament (after alteration): 2 (2x1) - 4.7 inch, 5 (5x1) - 20 mm AA, Hedgehog, 4 (4x1) A/S mortars & 2 racks (110) depth charges
Complement 134 men
   
Builder (hull) Denny (Dumbarton)
Builder (engine) Denny (Dumbarton)
Laid down 16.04.1918
Launched 17.04.1919
Completed 07.11.1919
Commissioned with a reserve complement 29.07.1933
Fate sold to Granton shipbreaking (04.03.1947), arriving for scrapping (04.1948)
   
Battle honours ?

 

Officers    
Commanding Officer
01.07.1929 - (08.1929)
Cdr. E.J. Shelley, RN
 
12.04.1930 - (02.1931)
Lt.Cdr. R.F. Jolly, RN
 
1931? - 1937?
see Engineer Officer
 
31.07.1939 - (08.1939)
Lt.Cdr. H. Gartside-Tippinge, RN
 
(1941?) -
Lt.Cdr. N. Lanyon, RN
 
01.08.1941 - (08.1942)
Lt. R.A. Sly, RNR
 
03.12.1942 - (12.1943)
Lt.Cdr. G.J. Luther, RN
 
03.02.1944 - (06.1944)
Lt.Cdr. J.E.R. Wilford, RNR
First Lieutenant
24.07.1939 - (08.1939)
Lt. N.V.B. Thurston, RN
 
28.07.1941 - (08.1942)
T/Lt. G.H. Parry, RNVR
 
08.09.1942 - (12.1943)
Lt. G.C. Leslie, RN  [later, in 1967, R.Adm.]
?
(04.1944) - (06.1944)
Lt. A.D. Gynn, RCNVR
Others
 
?
20.11.1942 - (12.1943)
Lt. A.D. Gynn, RCNVR
?
11.1942 - (12.1943)
Lt. C.D. Mackenzie, RN  [appears in the Dec 43 List for the first time]
Engineer Officer
19.01.1944 - (06.1944)
Lt. (E) T.R.J. Tidman, RN
Medical Officer
02.08.1941 - (08.1942)
T/Sg.Lt. J.B. Houghton, RNVR
Medical Officer
09.01.1943 - (12.1943)
Sg.Lt. H.F. Osmond, RN
Medical Officer
28.03.1944 - (07.1945)
Prob.T/Sg.Lt. | T/Sg.Lt. J.B. Gibson, RNVR
?
25.07.1941 - (10.1943)
S.Lt. C.B. Fetherston-Dilke, RN
?
10.1943 - (06.1944)
S.Lt. G.J. Hooper, RN
?
05.05.1942 - (08.1942)
T/S.Lt. C.S. Finnigan, RN
?
13.10.1942 - (07.1945)
T/S.Lt. | T/Lt. R.G. Goudy, RNVR
?
29.12.1942 - (06.1943)
T/S.Lt. A.G.C. Franklin, RNVR
?
08.01.1944 - (06.1944)
T/S.Lt. D.V. Massie, RNVR
?
31.07.1939 - (08.1939)
A/S.Lt. A.D. Bulman, RN
?
31.07.1939 - (08.1939)
A/S.Lt. J.B. Butchard, RN
Gunnery Officer
28.10.1942 - (12.1943)
T/A/Gnr. | T/Gnr. A.J. Tomalin, RN
Gunnery Officer
30.12.1943 - (06.1944)
T/A/Gnr. S.J. Bell, RN
Engineer Officer
10.08.1931 - (09.1932)
Wt.Eng. E.J. Brown, RN
Engineer Officer
30.09.1933 - (07.1935)
Wt.Eng. G.A.H. Thomas, RN
Engineer Officer
23.08.1935 - (02.1937)
Cd.Eng. L.S. Poe, RN
Engineer Officer
29.12.1938 - (08.1939)
Wt.Eng. R. Wylam, RN
Engineer Officer
22.01.1942 - (12.1943)
T/A/Wt.Eng. | T/Wt.Eng. G.H. Ward, RN
?
24.03.1943 - (06.1944)
T/Midsh. | T/A/S.Lt. | T/S.Lt. D.E. Tunnadine, RNVR