H.M.S. Tyrant (1917)

H.M.S. Tyrant (1917)
Pendant Number:	F.90 (Apr 1917) G.07 (Jan 1918) G.06 (Apr 1918) G.49 (Jun 1918)
Builder:	Yarrow & Company
Ordered:	Mar 1916 (8th Order)
Launched:	19 May, 1917
Completed:	Jul, 1917
Sold:	Apr, 1938

H.M.S. Tyrant was one of sixty-two "R" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1916-17.

Service

Tyrant reduced to Reserve at Portsmouth on 28 April, 1919.

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.

She was reduced to Reserve Complement on 27 October, 1933 and was assigned to the Portsmouth Local Destroyer Flotilla.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander (I) Thomas C. C. Bolster, 22 June, 1917 – 19 April, 1918  (and as Acting Interpreter in German)
• Lieutenant-Commander John M. Porter, 19 April, 1918 – 29 March, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Reginald Nash, 23 April, 1919 – 23 July, 1920
• Lieutenant in Command Harold S. Gillett, August, 1920  (and for a Reserve Group of T.B.Ds.)
• Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey R. Chambers, 10 July, 1924 – 16 March, 1925  (for Reserve Fleet Exercises)
• Lieutenant-Commander Harry McDonald, 16 October, 1925 – 1 February, 1927
• Lieutenant-Commander Edward Eastwick-Field, 1 February, 1927 – 1 May, 1929
• Lieutenant-Commander Edmund F. FitzGerald, 1 May, 1929^[Inference] – 2 August, 1929
• Lieutenant-Commander Hugh E. Raymond, 2 August, 1929 – 1 June, 1931
• Lieutenant-Commander Charles W. V. T. S. Lepper, 1 June, 1931 – 1 June, 1933
• Lieutenant-Commander John E. Phayre, 1 June, 1933 – 20 December, 1933  (retired as medically unfit)
• Lieutenant-Commander Charles W. V. T. S. Lepper, 30 January, 1934 – 19 December, 1934
• Lieutenant-Commander James G. W. Deneys, 19 December, 1934 – 30 March, 1938

See Also

• Wikipedia