H.M.S. Garth (1917)
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H.M.S. Garth (1917) | |
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Admiralty Pendant Number: | 491[1] |
Pendant Number: | T.C6 (Jun 1918)[2] |
Builder: | Dunlop Bremner & Company[3] |
Ordered: | mid 1916[4] |
Launched: | 9 May, 1917[5] |
Commissioned: | 1917[6] |
Sold: | early 1923[7] |
There was an escort destroyer of the same name launched in 1940.
Service
Garth paid off at Grimsby on 9 September, 1919.[8]
In January, 1921, she was at Harwich, one of forty-one paid off minesweepers there.[9]
Captains
- Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Rudolph L. Wikner, 4 April, 1918[10][11] – 18 February, 1919[12]
- Lieutenant-Commander John A. Shuter, 18 February, 1919[13] – May, 1919
- Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Frank E. Woodward, 10 June, 1919 – 6 September, 1919
Someone named "G. E. Blackburn" was reportedly appointed in command on 24 May 1919, but TNA and Navy Lists have no idea who that might be.[14]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 112.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. "C" denotes Code pendant here. p. 112.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 112.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 779.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 707a.
- ↑ Wikner Service Record The National Archives. ADM 240/37/536. f. 272.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 799.
- ↑ Wikner Service Record The National Archives. ADM 240/37/536. f. 272.
- ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 799.
- ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 27 May 1919, p. 18.
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