H.M.S. Despatch (1919)
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H.M.S. Despatch (1919) | |
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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.
- Captain Robert C. Hamilton, 1 April, 1922[14] – May, 1924[15]
- Captain Robert C. Davenport, 25 April, 1924[16] – June, 1926
- Captain Douglas B. Le Mottée, 25 April, 1926[17] – February, 1927[18]
- Captain Robert B. Ramsay, 24 February, 1927[19] – January, 1928[20]
- Captain Andrew B. Cunningham, January, 1928[21] – July, 1928[22] (and as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to America & West Indies)
- Captain Alban T. B. Curteis, 21 June, 1928[23][24] – 21 October, 1928[25] (and as Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to Vice-Admiral Fuller on transfer of command of station)
- Captain Ralph Leatham, November, 1928 – c. 6 November, 1928
- Captain Guy L. Coleridge, 6 November, 1928[26] – 30 May, 1929[27]
- Captain Frederic N. Attwood, 5 July, 1930[28] – 15 May, 1931[29]
- Captain William E. C. Tait, 15 May, 1931 – 12 June, 1931
- Commander Cecil R. E. W. Perryman, 23 June, 1931[30][31] – 29 September, 1931[32] (temporary)
- Commander John Brooke, 28 September, 1931[33] – 22 December, 1931[34]
- Captain Arthur L. St. G. Lyster, 15 November, 1932 – 2 January, 1933
- Captain The Hon. Edmund R. Drummond, 3 January, 1933[35] – 17 December, 1934
- Captain Guy L. Warren, 15 July, 1935[36] – 15 October, 1935[37] (and as Flag Captain & C.S.O. to R/A (D), Mediterranean vice Horan from 25 July)
- Captain William L. Jackson, 15 October, 1935[38][39] – July, 1937
- Captain Edward L. S. King, 2 July, 1937 – 24 January, 1938
- Commander John F. H. Sawyer, – 7 March, 1938[40]
- Commander Francis R. Baxter, 7 March, 1938[41] – 7 April, 1938[42]
- Lieutenant-Commander Pelham A. Maitland, 7 April, 1938 – 28 September, 1938
- Captain Henry J. Egerton, 28 September, 1938 – late 1938
- Commander Oswald W. Cornwallis, 12 October, 1938[43] – 19 October, 1938[44]
- Lieutenant-Commander Leonard C. Windsor, 9 November, 1938[45]
- Captain Allan Poland, 31 July, 1939[46] – 5 January, 1940[47]
- Commodore, Second Class Cyril G. B. Coltart, 5 January, 1940 – 25 February, 1940 (and in command of Ninth Cruiser Squadron)
- Captain John W. Farquhar, 26 February, 1940 – 21 June, 1940
- Commodore, Second Class Cyril E. Douglas-Pennant, June, 1940[48] – 25 February, 1942 (and as Commodore, West Coast South America, then of West Indies)
- Captain Waldemar W. P. Shirley-Rollison, March, 1942 – March, 1942 (cancelled)
- Captain William R. C. Leggatt, 23 June, 1942
- Captain Richard T. White, April, 1944[49]
Curteis may have been in command until early 1929.[50]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 50.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 748.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 232.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 232.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 231.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 231.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 231.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 230.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
- ↑ Hamilton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 67.
- ↑ Hamilton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 67.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 232.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 231.
- ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/137. ff. 75, 78.
- ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/137. ff. 75, 78.
- ↑ Ramsay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/137. ff. 75, 78.
- ↑ Cunningham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 286.
- ↑ Cunningham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 286.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 231.
- ↑ Curteis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/13. f. 13.
- ↑ Curteis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/13. f. 13.
- ↑ Coleridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91. f. 160.
- ↑ Coleridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91. f. 160.
- ↑ Attwood Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/52/45. f. 396.
- ↑ Attwood Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/52/45. f. 396.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 231.
- ↑ Perryman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/117. f. 125.
- ↑ Perryman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/117. f. 125.
- ↑ Brooke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/47. f. 52.
- ↑ Brooke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/47. f. 52.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 231.
- ↑ Warren Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/232. f. 245.
- ↑ Warren Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/232. f. 245.
- ↑ Jackson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/44. f. 400.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 230.
- ↑ Baxter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/137. f. 137.
- ↑ Baxter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/137. f. 137.
- ↑ Baxter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/137. f. 137.
- ↑ Cornwallis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/85. f. 87.
- ↑ Cornwallis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/85. f. 87.
- ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 3 Nov. 1938, p. 20.
- ↑ Poland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/306. f. 322.
- ↑ Poland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/306. f. 322.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ 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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