H.M.S. Tourmaline (1919)

H.M.S. Tourmaline (1919)
Pendant Number:	D.83 (Dec 1919)
Builder:	Thornycroft
Ordered:	Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)
Launched:	12 Apr, 1919
Completed:	Dec, 1919
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H.M.S. Tourmaline was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

Tourmaline completed to full crew at Portsmouth, 18 December, 1919.

Tourmaline was re-commissioned at Portsmouth with deduced crew on 29 November, 1923. By March 1925, she was in service in the Mediterranean.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander John I. Hallett, 13 November, 1919 – 28 November, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command Donal S. McGrath, c. December, 1919 – August, 1921
• Lieutenant-Commander Patrick Butter, 5 August, 1921 – 13 November, 1921
• Lieutenant-Commander Donal S. McGrath, 21 November, 1922 – c. 13 December, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander Ralph W. Wilkinson, 13 December, 1922 – 27 November, 1913
• Commander Alexander L. Fletcher, January, 1924 – March, 1926
• Commander Richard Harter, 1 March, 1926 – 26 September, 1926
• Commander John Fawcett, 21 September, 1926 – April, 1928  (and in command of Gibraltar Local Defence Flotilla from 1 January, 1927)
• Commander Henry V. Hudson, 29 January, 1929 – 6 January, 1930  (and in command of Gibraltar Local Defence Flotilla, undated)

See Also

• Wikipedia