H.M.S. Marne (1915)

H.M.S. Marne (1915)
Pendant Number:	H.A6 (1914) G.05 (Jan 1917) H.A0 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	John Brown & Company
Ordered:	Sep, 1914
Launched:	29 May, 1915
Completed:	Sep, 1915
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H.M.S. Marne was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the "M" class built for the Royal Navy during the Great War.

There was a destroyer of the same name launched in 1940.

Service

She fought at the Battle of Jutland under the command of Lieutenant-Commander George B. Hartford, screening the Battle Fleet as one of the fourteen "M" class destroyers of the Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla. Hartford would remain in command throughout the war.

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport on 15 October, 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant in Command Alfred G. Peace, 20 August, 1915 – late August, 1915^[Inference]
• Lieutenant-Commander George B. Hartford, August, 1915 – 16 April, 1919  (in command at Battle of Jutland)
• Commander Astley D. C. Cooper-Key, 16 April, 1919 – 15 August, 1919  (and for command of a group of T.B.Ds.)

See Also

• Eleventh D.F. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland
• Wikipedia