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{{UK-Croxton}}'s {{LiCRNR}} [[Arthur William Taylor|Taylor]] was found to blame and cautioned after a 15 August 1917 collision with ''Melton''.
  
 
In January, 1921, she was at Southampton, one of twenty-eight paid off minesweepers there.{{NLJan21|p. 708}}
 
In January, 1921, she was at Southampton, one of twenty-eight paid off minesweepers there.{{NLJan21|p. 708}}

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H.M.S. Melton (1916)
Admiralty Pendant Number: 898[1]
Pendant Number: T.94 (Sep 1918)[2]
Builder: William Hamilton & Company[3]
Ordered: Sep 1915[4]
Launched: 16 Mar, 1916[5]
Sold: 25 Nov, 1927[6]

H.M.S. Melton was one of thirty-two Ascot Class paddle minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Croxton's Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Taylor was found to blame and cautioned after a 15 August 1917 collision with Melton.

In January, 1921, she was at Southampton, one of twenty-eight paid off minesweepers there.[7]

Paid off 9 December, 1922.[8]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111. See this note for more info.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 708.
  8. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 255.
  9. The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 396b.
  10. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 395p.
  11. The Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 845.
  12. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jun 20, 1924; pg. 5; Issue 43683.

Bibliography


Ascot Class Paddle Minesweeper
1915 Design
Ascot Atherstone Chelmsford Chepstow Croxton
Doncaster Eglinton Epsom Eridge Gatwick
Kempton Lingfield Ludlow Melton Newbury
Plumpton Pontefract Cheltenham Goodwood Haldon
  Hurst Redcar Sandown Totnes  
Enlarged, 1917 Design
  Banbury Harpenden Hexham Lanark  
  Lewes Shincliffe Shirley Wetherby  
  Minesweepers (UK) Hunt Class –>