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She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 6 June, 1924 to serve with the {{UK-DF|5}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLApr25|p. 287}}
 
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She was re-commissioned at the Nore on 5 April, 1927 to serve with the {{UK-DF|1}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLFeb29|p. 286}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==

Revision as of 18:24, 12 February 2018

H.M.S. Walrus (1917)
Pendant Number: G.17 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Fairfield[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 27 Dec, 1917[4]
Completed: 8 Mar, 1918[5]
Commissioned: 5 Feb, 1918[6]
Stranded: 12 Feb, 1938[7]
Fate: Sold & scrapped[8]

H.M.S. Walrus was one of twenty-one "W" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.

Service

Walrus was commissioned on 5 February, 1918.[9]

She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 6 June, 1924 to serve with the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[10]

She was re-commissioned at the Nore on 5 April, 1927 to serve with the First Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[11]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 897.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  8. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 897.
  10. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 287.
  11. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 286.
  12. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 897.
  13. Nicol Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/133. f. 144.
  14. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 841.
  15. Jauncey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/132. f. 488.
  16. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 287.
  17. Jauncey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/132. f. 488.
  18. The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 287.
  19. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 286.

Bibliography


"W" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Wakeful Watchman Walpole Whitley Walker
Westcott Walrus Wolfhound Warwick Wessex
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  Westminster Windsor Wryneck Waterhen  
Thornycroft Specials
  Wolsey Woolston  
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