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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Apsley Dunbar Maxwell Cherry|nick=Apsley D. M. Cherry|appt=3 September, 1917<ref>Cherry Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/220.|D7603006}} f. 251.</ref>{{NLNov17|p. 399''h''}}|end=20 November, 1919<ref>Cherry Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/220.|D7603006}} f. 251.</ref>|note=and for Port Edgar Destroyer Flotilla from 9 December, 1917}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Apsley Dunbar Maxwell Cherry|nick=Apsley D. M. Cherry|appt=3 September, 1917<ref>Cherry Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/220.|D7603006}} f. 251.</ref>{{NLNov17|p. 399''h''}}|end=20 November, 1919<ref>Cherry Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/220.|D7603006}} f. 251.</ref>|note=and for Port Edgar Destroyer Flotilla from 9 December, 1917}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Harold Ernest Sulivan|nick=Harold E. Sulivan|appt=1 July, 1918<ref>Sulivan Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/250.|D7603035}} f. 283.</ref>{{NLFeb19|p. 945}}|end=13 January, 1920<ref>Sulivan Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/250.|D7603035}} f. 283.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D), {{UK-DF|3}} until 1 March, 1919}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Harold Ernest Sulivan|nick=Harold E. Sulivan|appt=1 July, 1918<ref>Sulivan Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/250.|D7603035}} f. 283.</ref>{{NLFeb19|p. 945}}|end=13 January, 1920<ref>Sulivan Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/250.|D7603035}} f. 283.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D), {{UK-DF|3}} until 1 March, 1919}} |
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H.M.S. Woolwich (1912) | |
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Pendant Number: | AC (1914) CA (Jan 1918)[1] |
Builder: | London & Glasgow[2] |
Launched: | 5 Sep, 1912[3] |
Commissioned: | 12 Dec, 1913[4] |
Sold: | 23 Jul, 1926[5] |
H.M.S. Woolwich was completed to navy order as a depot ship. There was a later destroyer tender named Woolwich launched in 1934.
Service
Woolwich served with destroyers at Harwich in 1914 and then at Rosyth until the end of the war.[6]
She was with the First Destroyer Flotilla from at least July, 1914.[7] In April 1916, she started also supporting the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla.[8]
In November, Woolwich was detached from supporting 1 D.F.; then working exclusively for the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla.[9]
In July 1918, she transferred to work with the Third Destroyer Flotilla, bearing her Captain (D),[10] Woolwich surrendered her role as Captain (D)'s ship in March and April of 1919, and then resumed it "temporarily" until being detached "temporarily" in July, 1919.[11]
She recommissioned at Devonport on 3 February, 1920.[12]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Acting Captain Gerald T. F. Pike, 28 August, 1913[13] – 3 September, 1917[Inference]
- Captain Apsley D. M. Cherry, 3 September, 1917[14][15] – 20 November, 1919[16] (and for Port Edgar Destroyer Flotilla from 9 December, 1917)
- Captain Harold E. Sulivan, 1 July, 1918[17][18] – 13 January, 1920[19] (and as Captain (D), Third Destroyer Flotilla until 1 March, 1919)
- Captain Denis G. Thynne, 13 January, 1920[20]
- Captain The Hon. William S. Leveson-Gower, 13 January, 1922[21][22] – 4 April, 1924[23] (and as Captain (D), Devonport)}
- Captain George W. McO. Campbell, 4 April, 1924[24][25] – 26 August, 1924[26] (and as Captain (D), Devonport)
- Captain Malcolm L. Goldsmith, 26 August, 1924[27] (and as Captain (D), Devonport)
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1915). p. 399h.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 109 of 10 July, 1914.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (April, 1916). p. 12.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (November, 1916). p. 11.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1918). p. 15.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1919). p. 11.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 902-945.
- ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 399h.
- ↑ Cherry Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/220. f. 251.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 399h.
- ↑ Cherry Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/220. f. 251.
- ↑ Sulivan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 283.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 945.
- ↑ Sulivan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 283.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 901.
- ↑ Leveson-Gower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/178. f. 182.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 845.
- ↑ Leveson-Gower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/178. f. 182.
- ↑ Campbell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/341. f. 341.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 290.
- ↑ Campbell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/341. f. 341.
- ↑ Goldsmith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 247.
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).