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|launch=24 Sep, 1919{{Conways1906|p. 62}}
 
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|builder=[[Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company]]{{Conways1906|p. 62}}
 
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Re-commissioned in Reserve at Portsmouth on 12 June, 1931.{{NLJul31|p. 231}}
 
Re-commissioned in Reserve at Portsmouth on 12 June, 1931.{{NLJul31|p. 231}}
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Commissioned at Chatham for trials on 15 November, 1932.{{NLJan33|p. 231}}
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''Despatch'' was commissioned at Portsmouth on 3 February, 1933.{{NLJul34|p. 231}}
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Re-commissioned on 25 July, 1935.{{NLJul37|p. 230}}
  
 
==Fire Control==
 
==Fire Control==
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Robert Cecil Hamilton|nick=Robert C. Hamilton|appt=1 April, 1922<ref>Hamilton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|D7603574}} f. 67.</ref>|ass=15 June, 1922{{NLJun23|p. 748}}|end=May, 1924<ref>Hamilton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|D7603574}} f. 67.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Robert Cecil Hamilton|nick=Robert C. Hamilton|appt=1 April, 1922<ref>Hamilton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|D7603574}} f. 67.</ref>|ass=15 June, 1922{{NLJun23|p. 748}}|end=May, 1924<ref>Hamilton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|D7603574}} f. 67.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Clutterbuck Davenport|nick=Robert C. Davenport|appt=25 April, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 232}}|end=June, 1926}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Clutterbuck Davenport|nick=Robert C. Davenport|appt=25 April, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 232}}|end=June, 1926}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Douglas Balfour Le Mottée|nick=Douglas B. Le Mottée|appt=25 June, 1926|end=February, 1927<ref>Ramsay Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/137.|D7604236}} ff. 75, 78.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Douglas Balfour Le Mottée|nick=Douglas B. Le Mottée|appt=25 April, 1926{{NLJul27|p. 231}}|ass=25 June, 1926|end=February, 1927<ref>Ramsay Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/137.|D7604236}} ff. 75, 78.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Bertram Ramsay|nick=Robert B. Ramsay|appt=24 February, 1927<ref>Ramsay Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/137.|D7604236}} ff. 75, 78.</ref>|end=January, 1928<ref>Ramsay Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/137.|D7604236}} ff. 75, 78.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Bertram Ramsay|nick=Robert B. Ramsay|appt=24 February, 1927<ref>Ramsay Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/137.|D7604236}} ff. 75, 78.</ref>|end=January, 1928<ref>Ramsay Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/137.|D7604236}} ff. 75, 78.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Andrew Browne Cunningham, First Viscount Cunningham|nick=Andrew B. Cunningham|appt=January, 1928<ref>Cunningham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|}} f. 286.</ref>|end=July, 1928<ref>Cunningham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|}} f. 286.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to America & West Indies}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Andrew Browne Cunningham, First Viscount Cunningham|nick=Andrew B. Cunningham|appt=January, 1928<ref>Cunningham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|}} f. 286.</ref>|end=July, 1928<ref>Cunningham Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|}} f. 286.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to America & West Indies}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Ralph Leatham|nick=Ralph Leatham|appt=November, 1928|end=c. 6 November, 1928}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Ralph Leatham|nick=Ralph Leatham|appt=November, 1928|end=c. 6 November, 1928}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Guy Lushington Coleridge|nick=Guy L. Coleridge|appt=6 November, 1928<ref>Coleridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/91.|}} f. 160.</ref>|end=30 May, 1929<ref>Coleridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/91.|}} f. 160.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Guy Lushington Coleridge|nick=Guy L. Coleridge|appt=6 November, 1928<ref>Coleridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/91.|}} f. 160.</ref>|end=30 May, 1929<ref>Coleridge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/91.|}} f. 160.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederic Newton Attwood|nick=Frederic N. Attwood|appt=July, 1930{{MackieRNW}}|end=May, 1931{{MackieRNW}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederic Newton Attwood|nick=Frederic N. Attwood|appt=5 July, 1930<ref>Attwood Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/52/45.|}} f. 396.</ref>|ass=2 August, 1930<ref>Attwood Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/52/45.|}} f. 396.</ref>|end=15 May, 1931<ref>Attwood Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/52/45.|}} f. 396.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Eric Campbell Tait|nick=William E. C. Tait|appt=15 May, 1931|end=12 June, 1931}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Eric Campbell Tait|nick=William E. C. Tait|appt=15 May, 1931|end=12 June, 1931}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Cecil Rudolph Ernest Wilbraham Perryman|nick=Cecil R. E. W. Perryman|appt=23 June, 1931{{NLJul31|p. 231}}<ref>Perryman Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/117.|D7604872}} f. 125.</ref>|end=29 September, 1931<ref>Perryman Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/117.|D7604872}} f. 125.</ref>|note=temporary}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Cecil Rudolph Ernest Wilbraham Perryman|nick=Cecil R. E. W. Perryman|appt=23 June, 1931{{NLJul31|p. 231}}<ref>Perryman Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/117.|D7604872}} f. 125.</ref>|end=29 September, 1931<ref>Perryman Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/117.|D7604872}} f. 125.</ref>|note=temporary}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Brooke|nick=John Brooke|appt=28 September, 1931<ref>Brooke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/47.|D7604802}} f. 52.</ref>|end=22 December, 1931<ref>Brooke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/47.|D7604802}} f. 52.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Brooke|nick=John Brooke|appt=28 September, 1931<ref>Brooke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/47.|D7604802}} f. 52.</ref>|end=22 December, 1931<ref>Brooke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/47.|D7604802}} f. 52.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Lumley St. George Lyster|nick=Arthur L. St. G. Lyster|appt=15 November, 1932|end=2 January, 1933}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Lumley St. George Lyster|nick=Arthur L. St. G. Lyster|appt=15 November, 1932|end=2 January, 1933}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edmund Rupert Drummond|nick=The Hon. Edmund R. Drummond|appt=3 January, 1933|end=17 December, 1934}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edmund Rupert Drummond|nick=The Hon. Edmund R. Drummond|appt=3 January, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 231}}|end=17 December, 1934}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Guy Langton Warren|nick=Guy L. Warren|appt=15 July, 1935<ref>Warren Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/232.|D7604987}} f. 245.</ref>|end=15 October, 1935<ref>Warren Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/232.|D7604987}} f. 245.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain & C.S.O. to R/A (D), Mediterranean vice Horan from 25 July}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Guy Langton Warren|nick=Guy L. Warren|appt=15 July, 1935<ref>Warren Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/232.|D7604987}} f. 245.</ref>|end=15 October, 1935<ref>Warren Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/232.|D7604987}} f. 245.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain & C.S.O. to R/A (D), Mediterranean vice Horan from 25 July}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Lindsay Jackson|nick=William L. Jackson|appt=15 October, 1935{{NLJul37|p. 230}}|end=July, 1937}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Lindsay Jackson|nick=William L. Jackson|appt=15 October, 1935<ref>Jackson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/44.|}} f. 400.</ref>{{NLJul37|p. 230}}|end=July, 1937}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Leigh Stuart King|nick=Edward L. S. King|appt=2 July, 1937|end=24 January, 1938}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Leigh Stuart King|nick=Edward L. S. King|appt=2 July, 1937|end=24 January, 1938}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Frederick Hubert Sawyer|nick=John F. H. Sawyer|appt=|end=7 March, 1938<ref>Baxter Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/137.|D7605893}} f. 137.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Frederick Hubert Sawyer|nick=John F. H. Sawyer|appt=|end=7 March, 1938<ref>Baxter Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/137.|D7605893}} f. 137.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Pelham Alexander Maitland|nick=Pelham A. Maitland|appt=7 April, 1938|end=28 September, 1938}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Pelham Alexander Maitland|nick=Pelham A. Maitland|appt=7 April, 1938|end=28 September, 1938}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Jack Egerton|nick=Henry J. Egerton|appt=28 September, 1938|end=late 1938}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Henry Jack Egerton|nick=Henry J. Egerton|appt=28 September, 1938|end=late 1938}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Oswald Wykeham Cornwallis|nick=Oswald W. Cornwallis|appt=12 October, 1938<ref>Cornwallis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/85.|}} f. 87.</ref>|end=19 October, 1938<ref>Cornwallis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/85.|}} f. 87.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Leonard Cooper Windsor|nick=Leonard C. Windsor|appt=9 November, 1938{{NavAppts|3 Nov. 1938, p. 20}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Allan Poland|nick=Allan Poland|appt=31 July, 1939<ref>Poland Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/306.|D7605061}} f. 322.</ref>|end=5 January, 1940<ref>Poland Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/306.|D7605061}} f. 322.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Allan Poland|nick=Allan Poland|appt=31 July, 1939<ref>Poland Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/306.|D7605061}} f. 322.</ref>|end=5 January, 1940<ref>Poland Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/306.|D7605061}} f. 322.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Cyril George Bucknill Coltart|nick=Cyril G. B. Coltart|appt=5 January, 1940|end=25 February, 1940|note=and in command of {{UK-CS|9}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Cyril George Bucknill Coltart|nick=Cyril G. B. Coltart|appt=5 January, 1940|end=25 February, 1940|note=and in command of {{UK-CS|9}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Wentworth Farquhar|nick=John W. Farquhar|appt=26 February, 1940|end=21 June, 1940}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Wentworth Farquhar|nick=John W. Farquhar|appt=26 February, 1940|end=21 June, 1940}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Cyril Eustace Douglas-Pennant|nick=Cyril E. Douglas-Pennant|appt=June, 1940{{MackieRNW}}|end=25 February, 1942|note=and as Commodore, West Coast South America, then of West Indies}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Cyril Eustace Douglas-Pennant|nick=Cyril E. Douglas-Pennant|appt=June, 1940{{MackieRNW}}|end=25 February, 1942|note=and as Commodore, West Coast South America, then of West Indies}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Waldemar William Powell Shirley-Rollison|nick=Waldemar W. P. Shirley-Rollison|appt=March, 1942{{MackieRNW}}|end=April, 1942{{MackieRNW}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Waldemar William Powell Shirley-Rollison|nick=Waldemar W. P. Shirley-Rollison|appt=March, 1942|end=March, 1942|note=cancelled}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Ronald Christopher Leggatt|nick=William R. C. Leggatt|appt=June, 1942{{MackieRNW}}|end=April, 1944{{MackieRNW}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=William Ronald Christopher Leggatt|nick=William R. C. Leggatt|appt=23 June, 1942|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Richard Taylor White|nick=Richard T. White|appt=April, 1944{{MackieRNW}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Richard Taylor White|nick=Richard T. White|appt=April, 1944{{MackieRNW}}|end=}}
 
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Latest revision as of 22:52, 10 December 2021

H.M.S. Despatch (1919)
Pendant Number: 30 (Jun 1922)[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Laid down: 8 Jul, 1918[3]
Launched: 24 Sep, 1919[4]
Commissioned: 15 Jun, 1922[5]
Sold: Apr, 1946[6]
Fate: Broken up

Service

Commissioned at Hong Kong on 1 January, 1925 for service with the Fifth Cruiser Squadron on the China Station.[7]

She re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 7 November, 1928 for service in the Eighth Cruiser Squadron on the America and West Indies Station.[8]

Re-commissioned in Reserve at Portsmouth on 12 June, 1931.[9]

Commissioned at Chatham for trials on 15 November, 1932.[10]

Despatch was commissioned at Portsmouth on 3 February, 1933.[11]

Re-commissioned on 25 July, 1935.[12]

Fire Control

Despatch was probably fitted with a director on launch or very soon thereafter.[13]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Curteis may have been in command until early 1929.[50]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 50.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 748.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 232.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 232.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 231.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 231.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 231.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 230.
  13. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  14. ↑ Hamilton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 67.
  15. ↑ Hamilton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 67.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 232.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 231.
  18. ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/137. ff. 75, 78.
  19. ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/137. ff. 75, 78.
  20. ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/137. ff. 75, 78.
  21. ↑ Cunningham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 286.
  22. ↑ Cunningham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 286.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 231.
  24. ↑ Curteis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/13. f. 13.
  25. ↑ Curteis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/13. f. 13.
  26. ↑ Coleridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91. f. 160.
  27. ↑ Coleridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91. f. 160.
  28. ↑ Attwood Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/52/45. f. 396.
  29. ↑ Attwood Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/52/45. f. 396.
  30. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 231.
  31. ↑ Perryman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/117. f. 125.
  32. ↑ Perryman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/117. f. 125.
  33. ↑ Brooke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/47. f. 52.
  34. ↑ Brooke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/47. f. 52.
  35. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 231.
  36. ↑ Warren Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/232. f. 245.
  37. ↑ Warren Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/232. f. 245.
  38. ↑ Jackson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/44. f. 400.
  39. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 230.
  40. ↑ Baxter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/137. f. 137.
  41. ↑ Baxter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/137. f. 137.
  42. ↑ Baxter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/137. f. 137.
  43. ↑ Cornwallis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/85. f. 87.
  44. ↑ Cornwallis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/85. f. 87.
  45. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 3 Nov. 1938, p. 20.
  46. ↑ Poland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/306. f. 322.
  47. ↑ Poland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/306. f. 322.
  48. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  49. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  50. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 231.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1918). Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. C.B. 1456. Copy No. 10 at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
  • Admiralty, Technical History Section (1919). The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships. Vol. 3, Part 23. C.B. 1515 (23) now O.U. 6171/14. At The National Archives. ADM 275/19.


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