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'''H.M.S. ''Whitley''''' was one of twenty-two destroyers of the [["W" Class Destroyer (1917)|"W" class]].
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'''H.M.S. ''Whitley''''' was one of twenty-one [["W" Class Destroyer (1917)|"W" class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1917-18.
  
 
==Service==
 
==Service==
 
''Whitley'' was commissioned on 23 September, 1918.{{NLJan21|p. 899}}
 
''Whitley'' was commissioned on 23 September, 1918.{{NLJan21|p. 899}}
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She was re-commissioned at Chatham on 4 December, 1923 to serve with the {{UK-DF|9}} as part of the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLApr25|p. 288}}
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She was re-commissioned with Reserve Crew on 23 November, 1925.{{NLJul27|p. 288}}
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Commissioned at Portsmouth on 14 December, 1928 for service with the {{UK-DF|5}} in the Atlantic.{{NLFeb29|p. 288}}
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Re-commissioned at Chatham on 8 May, 1929 for service with the {{UK-DF|1}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLJul31|p. 288}}
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She reduced to Reserve at the Nore on 30 June, 1932.{{NLJan33|p. 292}}
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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.{{ToL|Warships' Bells|12 June 1933, p. 11}}
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Paid into Maintenance Reserve at Royth on 28 October, 1933.{{NLJul37|p. 292}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Whitley''">{{TenureListBegin|Captain of {{UK-Whitley|f=p}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Jack Ernest Albert Mocatta|nick=Jack E. A. Mocatta|appt=6 September, 1918{{NLOct19|p. 943}}|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Jack Ernest Albert Mocatta|nick=Jack E. A. Mocatta|appt=6 September, 1918{{NLOct19|p. 943}}|end=13 October, 1919|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Ernald Gilbert Hoskins Master|nick=Ernald G. H. Master|appt=13 October, 1919{{NLJan21|p. 899}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Ernald Gilbert Hoskins Master|nick=Ernald G. H. Master|appt=13 October, 1919<ref>Master Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/316.|D7604728}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLJan21|p. 899}}|end=15 December, 1921<ref>Master Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/316.|D7604728}} f. ?.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Walter Napier Thomason Beckett|nick=Walter N. T. Beckett|appt=1928<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>|end=March, 1929<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen|nick=Edward S. F. Fegen|appt=15 December, 1921<ref>Fegen Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/54/8.|D7605596}} f. 8.</ref>|end=September, 1922<ref>Fegen Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/54/8.|D7605596}} f. 8.</ref>}}
{{TenureListEnd}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robin Edmund Jeffreys|nick=Robin E. Jeffreys|appt=25 August, 1922{{NavAppts|Tuesday, Aug 22, 1922; pg. 14; Issue 43116.  Given here as "E. E. Jeffreys"}}|end=1 January, 1923}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Herbert Masterman Hughes|nick=Herbert M. Hughes|appt=1 January, 1923<ref>Hughes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/195.|D7605280}} f. 563.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 289}}|end=22 November, 1925<ref>Hughes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/195.|D7605280}} f. 563.  This date is possibly read incorrectly.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Walter Napier Thomason Beckett|nick=Walter N. T. Beckett|appt=14 December, 1928{{NLFeb29|p. 288}}|end=March, 1929<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Colin Sinclair Thomson|nick=Colin S. Thomson|appt=March, 1929<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/76.|D7576711}} f. 432.</ref>|end=19 April, 1929<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/76.|D7576711}} f. 432.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edmund Gerard Noel Rushbrooke|nick=Edmund G. N. Rushbrooke|appt=20 April, 1929|end=c. May, 1929}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Donald Carter Morrison|nick=Donald C. Morrison|appt=8 May, 1929<ref>Morrison Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/109.}} f. 109.</ref>|end=January, 1931<ref>Morrison Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/109.}} f. 109.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Bernard Sydney Davies|nick=Bernard S. Davies|appt=late December, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 288}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Humphrey Maurice Robson|nick=Humphrey M. Robson|appt=23 May, 1932{{NavAppts| Tuesday, June 7, 1932, Issue 46153, p.20}}|end=10 September, 1932}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Bostock|nick=John Bostock|appt=c. August, 1933|end=28 October, 1933}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Eric Hart Dyke|nick=Eric H. Dyke|appt=24 June, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|2438}}|end=11 December, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|2438}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robert Alexander Cassidi|nick=Robert A. Cassidi|appt=26 November, 1939|end=11 December, 1939<ref>Rolfe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/113.|D7617109}} f. ?.</ref>|note=while Hart Dyke is sick}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Guy Neville Rolfe|nick=Guy N. Rolfe|appt=11 December, 1939<ref>Rolfe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/113.|D7617109}} f. ?.</ref>|end=27 May, 1940<ref>Rolfe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/113.|D7617109}} f. ?.</ref>|succBy=Vessel Lost}}
 
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
 
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
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A Lt. Cdr. "H. E. Randall" was appointed in command of {{UK-Tormentor}} on 29 October, 1927 and was then to transfer to ''Whitley'', but I am unable to identify him.{{NavAppts|Wednesday, Nov 02, 1927; pg. 21; Issue 44728}}
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
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Latest revision as of 13:57, 14 February 2022

H.M.S. Whitley (1918)
Pendant Number: F.20 (Nov 1918)[1]
Builder: William Doxford & Sons[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 13 Apr, 1918[4]
Completed: 11 Oct, 1918[5]
Commissioned: 23 Sep, 1918[6]
Bombed: 19 May, 1940[7]
Fate: beached off Belgium[8]

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

Service

Whitley was commissioned on 23 September, 1918.[9]

She was re-commissioned at Chatham on 4 December, 1923 to serve with the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Atlantic Fleet.[10]

She was re-commissioned with Reserve Crew on 23 November, 1925.[11]

Commissioned at Portsmouth on 14 December, 1928 for service with the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic.[12]

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 8 May, 1929 for service with the First Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[13]

She reduced to Reserve at the Nore on 30 June, 1932.[14]

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.[15]

Paid into Maintenance Reserve at Royth on 28 October, 1933.[16]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

A Lt. Cdr. "H. E. Randall" was appointed in command of Tormentor on 29 October, 1927 and was then to transfer to Whitley, but I am unable to identify him.[40]

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. 313.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 899.
  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. 899.
  10. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 288.
  11. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 288.
  12. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 288.
  13. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 288.
  14. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 292.
  15. "Warships' Bells." The Times (London, England), 12 June 1933, p. 11.
  16. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 292.
  17. The Navy List. (October, 1919). p. 943.
  18. Master Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/316. f. ?.
  19. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 899.
  20. Master Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/316. f. ?.
  21. Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/8. f. 8.
  22. Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/8. f. 8.
  23. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Aug 22, 1922; pg. 14; Issue 43116. Given here as "E. E. Jeffreys".
  24. Hughes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/195. f. 563.
  25. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 289.
  26. Hughes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/195. f. 563. This date is possibly read incorrectly.
  27. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 288.
  28. Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  29. Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/76. f. 432.
  30. Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/76. f. 432.
  31. Morrison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/109. f. 109.
  32. Morrison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/109. f. 109.
  33. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 288.
  34. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, June 7, 1932, Issue 46153, p.20.
  35. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  36. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  37. Rolfe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/113. f. ?.
  38. Rolfe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/113. f. ?.
  39. Rolfe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/113. f. ?.
  40. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Nov 02, 1927; pg. 21; Issue 44728.

Bibliography


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Admiralty Design
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Westcott Walrus Wolfhound Warwick Wessex
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  Westminster Windsor Wryneck Waterhen  
Thornycroft Specials
  Wolsey Woolston  
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