H.M.S. P53 (1917)

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H.M.S. P53 (1917)
Builder: Barclay Curle & Company[1]
Ordered: Mar 1916[2]
Launched: 8 Feb, 1917[3]
Sold: Feb, 1924[4]

H.M.S. P53 was one of 44 patrol boats of the "P" class.

Service

P 53 collided with the hired trawler H.M.T. St. Elmo at some point in 1917 while under the command of Lt. Arthur Harry Polhill. He would later be thanked for assisting a French seaplane which had had to set down off Boulogne.

Polhill was removed from the ship after a Court Martial for being drunk on board. Lt. Russell Grenfell took his place in mid-March 1918, and would command the ship until 5 September.

She was one of four PC boats and nine P boats operating with Reserve Complement at Devonport in September, 1919.[5]

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport on 29 October, 1919.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 96.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 96.
  3. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 98.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 96.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (September, 1919). p. 708.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 821.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 396f.

Bibliography


"P" Class Patrol Boat
May 1915 Order
P11 P12 P13 P14 P15
P16 P17 P18 P19 P20
P21 P22 P23 P24 P25
P26 P27 P28 P29 P30
  P31 P32 P33 P34  
February 1916 Order
  P35 P36 P37  
  P38 P39 P40  
March 1916 Order
P41 P45 P46 P47 P48
P49 P50 P52 P53 P54
April-May 1916 Order
  P57 P58 P59  
June 1916 Order
  P64  
<– Insect Class Small Fry (UK) "PC" Class –>
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