H.M.S. Lydd (1918)

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H.M.S. Lydd (1918)
Pendant Number: T./0 (Jan 1919)
T.44 (Nov 1919)[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Ordered: mid 1917[3]
Launched: 4 Dec, 1918[4]
Sold: 13 Mar, 1947[5]
H.M.S. Lydd was one of one hundred and fourteen Hunt Class minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Lydd reduced to a C. & M. Party on 1 October, 1919.[6]

In early 1926, she was part of the Reserve Fleet at the Nore.[7] She remained there until at least mid-1931.[8]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. "/" denotes Oblique pendant here. p. 114.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  6. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 252.
  7. The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 252.
  8. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 251.
  9. Williams Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/53/34. f. 34.
  10. The Navy List. (September, 1919). p. 753.
  11. Williams Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/53/34. f. 34.
  12. Woollard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/235. f. 281.
  13. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jun 20, 1924; pg. 5; Issue 43683.
  14. Woollard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/235. f. 281.
  15. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  16. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  17. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  18. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  19. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  20. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  21. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  22. Uboat.net page on the ship.

Bibliography


Hunt Class Minesweeper
Ailsa Design
Belvoir Bicester Blackmorevale Cotswold Cottesmore
Cattistock Croome Dartmoor Garth Hambledon
Heythrop Holderness Meynell Muskerry Oakley
Pytchley Quorn Southdown Tedworth Zetland
Admiralty Design
Aberdare Abingdon Albury Alresford Beaufort
Collinson Appledore Leamington Badminton Bagshot
Barnstaple Swindon Banchory Bloxham Bradfield
Burslem Goole Blackburn Bootle Caerleon
Camberley Carstairs Caterham Battle Fermoy
Forfar Bury Cheam Gretna Harrow
Havant Huntley Instow Gaddesden Gainsborough
Northolt Clonmel Elgin Sherborne Tiverton
Tonbridge Tralee Tring Truro Kellett
Verwood Wem Wexford Craigie Derby
Dorking Dundalk Dunoon Fairfield Forres
Cupar Sutton Fareham Faversham Ford
Rugby Irvine Kendal Kinross Lydd
Longford Marlow Mistley Monaghan Mallaig
Malvern Marazion Munlochy Nailsea Newark
Repton Weybourne Pangbourne Penarth Petersfield
Pinner Pontypool Prestatyn Radley Ross
Salford Saltash Saltburn Selkirk Shrewsbury
Sligo Widnes Yeovil Stafford Stoke
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