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Destroyer (old "W" class)
altered to fast escort vessel (completed 08.01.1940)

6th Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet

 (02.1931)

6th Flotilla, Home Fleet

 (09.1932) - (01.1934)

Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth

 (07.1935) - (02.1937)

assisting French fleet from Dunkirk

 05.1940

Rosyth Escort Force

 07.1940 - 05.1945
Displacement 1,100 tons (1,457 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
Bunkers & radius OF 367 tons, 3,5000/1,800/900 nm @ 15/18/32k
Armament 4 (4x1) - 4 inch, 1 (1x1) - 2 pdr AA, 5 (5x1) - .303 inch AA machine guns, 6 (2x3) 21 inch TT
Armament (after alteration): 4 (2x2) - 4 inch AA, 8 (2x4) - .5 inch AA machine guns, later replaced by 2 (2x1) 20 mm AA guns (and possibly two more in the bridge wings)
Complement 134 men
   
Builder (hull) Scotts (Greenock)
Builder (engine) Scotts (Greenock)
Laid down 00.04.1917
Launched 25.02.1918
Completed 18.04.1918
Re-commissioned at Portsmouth 01.01.1929
Paid off into Dockyard Control at Portsmouth 09.04.1929
Completed to full complement at Portsmouth 20.01.1930
Re-commissioned at Portsmouth 24.04.1931
Re-commissioned at Portsmouth 04.05.1933
Re-commissioned in Reserve 25.06.1936
Transferred to Dockyard Control 02.06.1939
Fate sold to Metal Industries (04.03.1947), arriving at Rosyth for scrapping (08.1948)
   
Battle honours North Sea 1939-1940, British Channel 1943

 

Officers    
Commanding Officer
29.04.1929 - (02.1931)
Lt.Cdr. W.J. Phipps, RN
 
13.04.1931 - (09.1932)
Lt.Cdr. W.A.R. Cartwright, RN
 
04.01.1933 - (01.1934)
Lt.Cdr. A.B. Russell, RN
 
1935? - 1939?
see Engineer Officer
 
20.12.1939 - (04.1942)
Lt.Cdr. A.A.C. Ouvry, RN
 
02.05.1942 - (08.1942)
Lt.Cdr. A.A.C. Ouvry, RN
 
10.08.1942 - (01.1945)
Lt.Cdr. H.G. Bowerman, RN
 
17.01.1945 - (mid-1945)
Lt. J.E. Dyer, RN
First Lieutenant
24.02.1941 - (06.1944)
Lt. A.R.H. Tedford, RNVR
Others
 
?
28.07.1942 - (12.1943)
T/Lt. W.J.A. Bryce, RNVR
Medical Officer
05.01.1942 - (08.1942)
Sg.Lt. N.L. Speirs, RANR
Medical Officer
24.11.1942 - (08.1943)
Prob.T/Sg.Lt. | T/Sg.Lt. C.St.J. Davies, RNVR
Medical Officer
16.10.1943 - (06.1944)
Prob.T/Sg.Lt. J.V.S.A. Davies, RNVR
?
09.06.1942 - (06.1944)
S.Lt. | Lt. A.G. Hamilton, RN   [First Lieutenant after Tedford, about 08.1943 ??]
?
10.02.1945 - (07.1945)
S.Lt. R.K. Forgan, RN
?
08.12.1941 - (04.1944)
T/S.Lt. | T/Lt. E. Whitnell, RNVR
?
20.02.1942 - (08.1943)
T/S.Lt. | T/Lt. F.L.L. Holmes, RNVR
?
24.12.1943 - (06.1944)
T/S.Lt. D.F. Christy, RNVR
?
20.09.1943 - (06.1944)
T/A/S.Lt. | T/S.Lt. W. Dixon, RNVR
?
11.04.1944 - (06.1944)
T/A/S.Lt. P.B. Garrod, RNVR
?
02.12.1939 - (08.1942)
Gnr. G.J. Harrison, RNVR
Engineer Officer
07.01.1929 - (08.1929)
Eng.Lt. F.H. Smith, RN
Engineer Officer
07.02.1935 - (07.1935)
Lt. (E) E.E. Berry, RN
Engineer Officer
16.12.1935 - (02.1937)
Wt.Eng. H.O. Hill, RN
Engineer Officer
03.01.1938 - (08.1939)
Cd.Eng. W. Frame, RN
Engineer Officer
22.05.1941 - (12.1943)
T/Wt.Eng. W.S.A. Flood, RN
Engineer Officer
05.02.1944 - (07.1945)
Lt. (E) W. Baker, RNR
?
01.1943 - (08.1943)
Midsh. G.C. Mann, RN
?
10.1943 - (12.1943)
Midsh. M. Shirley-Beaven, RN
?
19.12.1942 - (06.1944)
Prob.T/Midsh. | T/Midsh. F.D. Tolfree, RNR