H.M.S. PC 73 (1918)

H.M.S. PC 73 was one of twenty "PC" class patrol boats built for the Royal Navy.

The boat was sometimes referred to as P 73 or PQ 73 in contemporary documents.

Service

In April 1925, she was renamed Dart and commenced service as a fishery protection gunboat. She commissioned at Devonport on 29 September, 1925.^[5]

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Acting Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. Frederick W. Robinson, 21 October, 1918^[6]
Commander Kenneth M. Bruce, 20 March, 1919^[7] – November, 1919^[8]
Commander (I Gr.) Thomas C. C. Bolster, 13 November, 1919^[9]^[10] – 6 May, 1921^[11] (and for charge of a group of vessels in reserve and as Acting Interpreter in German)
Lieutenant in Command Gordon C. Steele, 28 June, 1922^[12] – 15 September, 1922^[13]
Lieutenant in Command John G. Aitchison, 15 September, 1922^[14] – 28 April, 1923
Lieutenant & Commander Charles G. N. Graham, 28 April, 1923 – 1 September, 1923
Lieutenant in Command (A/S) Patrick F. Cooper, 1 September, 1923^[15]
Lieutenant-Commander Beauchamp A. Francis, 7 September, 1925^[16] – 31 May, 1927 (ship renamed Dart in late 1925)
Lieutenant-Commander Frederick M. O'Connor, 31 May, 1927^[17] – January, 1930^[18] (and as Local Fishery Naval Officer, English Channel)
Lieutenant-Commander Charles K. Adam, 26 May, 1931^[19] – 12 June, 1933^[20]
Lieutenant-Commander Richard H. W. Atkins, March, 1934^[21] – 7 October, 1935^[Inference]
Lieutenant-Commander Seymour C. Tuke, 7 October, 1935^[22] (and as Local Fishery Officer, English Channel)