H.M.S. Hollyhock (1915)

H.M.S. Hollyhock (1915)
Pendant Number:	M.42 (Feb, 1915) T.16 (Sep, 1915) T.43 (Jan, 1918)
Builder:	Barclay Curle & Company
Ordered:	Jan, 1915
Launched:	1 May, 1915
Sold:	Oct, 1930

H.M.S. Hollyhock was one of twenty-four Acacia Class sweeping sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Hollyhock operated as part of the Twelfth Sloop Flotilla in the Mediterranean from November 1917 to May 1918.

Hollyhock operated as part of the Eleventh Sloop Flotilla based at [Gibraltar]] from July to December, 1918, spending some of that time in a paid-off state.

Hollyhock operated for just a month or so as part of the First Sloop Flotilla, part of the Southern Division, Coast of Ireland Station and then joined the Twenty-fourth Sloop Flotilla on the same station, operating there from January to April, 1919.

Hollyhock was re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 9 February, 1924.

She was re-commissioned on 5 November, 1926.

The sloop was paid off to a C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 25 May, 1928.

Captains

• Lieutenant-Commander Herbert G. Briggs, 5 June, 1915 – 9 June, 1915  (temporary)
• Captain Lionel G. Preston, June, 1915 – 9 June, 1916  (and as Captain-in-Charge of Fleet Minesweepers)
• Lieutenant-Commander Philip V. Kilgour, 9 June, 1916 – 16 September, 1918
• Lieutenant-Commander Philip V. Kilgour, 16 November, 1918 – 3 December, 1918
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command William B. Chilton, 9 December, 1918 – 4 March, 1919
• Acting Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. Douglas G. Jeffrey, 4 March, 1919 – April 1919  (temporary)
• Captain (I, Fr.) Hector Boyes, 23 December, 1919 – 15 October, 1921
• Commander Bertram C. Watson, 15 October, 1921 – 29 December, 1923
• Commander Alfred G. Peace, 5 November, 1923 – January, 1926
• Captain Roderick B. T. Miles, 12 January, 1926 – January, 1929

See Also

• Wikipedia
• Transcribed Ship Logs January 1920 to November 1920
• Transcribed Ship Logs December 1920 to April 1921