H.M.S. Tuscan (1919)

H.M.S. Tuscan (1919)
Pendant Number:	F.A5 (Jun 1919)
Builder:	Yarrow & Company
Ordered:	Apr, 1917 (1st Order)
Launched:	1 Mar, 1919
Completed:	24 Jun, 1919
Scrapped:	1932

H.M.S. Tuscan was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending. She was completed in the year after the war.

Service

Tuscan was commissioned for Reserve at Portsmouth on 16 August, 1920.

She re-commissioned at Devonport on 7 February, 1925.

Paid off into the Rosyth Maintenance Reserve on 20 December, 1927.

In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10. Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander John B. Spurgin, 16 May, 1919 – 23 July, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command Charles L. Evan-Thomas, 2 June, 1920  (for Reserve Fleet Exercises)
• Lieutenant-Commander H. Bourchier Wrey, 5 October, 1920  (cancelled, according to his service record)
• Lieutenant-Commander John B. Spurgin, c. January, 1921 – February, 1921
• Lieutenant-Commander Philip J. Mack, February, 1921 – July, 1921
• Lieutenant in Command Eric P. Vivian, late July, 1921 – 18 March, 1922  (took passage to ship in Monarch)
• Lieutenant-Commander John D. Harvey, 27 April, 1922 – November, 1922
• Commander Richard L. Hamer, October, 1922 – November, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander Donal S. McGrath, c. 13 December, 1922 – March, 1923
• Lieutenant-Commander Philip J. Mack, 10 April, 1923 – July, 1923
• Lieutenant-Commander Donald C. Brock, 4 December, 1923 – 19 August, 1924
• Lieutenant-Commander Irvine G. Glennie, 19 August, 1924 – November, 1924
• Lieutenant-Commander Bernard A. W. Warburton-Lee, 28 November, 1924 – 7 February, 1925
• Commander Reginald B. C. Hutchinson, October, 1927 – November, 1927  (lent, for passage to Rosyth)

See Also

• Wikipedia