H.M.S. Malcolm (1919)

H.M.S. Malcolm (1919)
Pendant Number:	D.19 (Nov 1919)
Builder:	Cammell Laird
Ordered:	Apr, 1917
Launched:	29 May, 1919
Commissioned:	3 Dec, 1919
Sold:	25 Jul, 1945

H.M.S. Malcolm was one of eight flotilla leaders of the Scott class.

Service

Malcolm was commissioned at Birkenhead on 3 December, 1919.

She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 6 June, 1924.

Re-commissioned at the Nore on 6 January, 1926.

Malcolm was commissioned on 1 April, 1928 and placed into Reserve at the Nore.

Completed to special complement for trials on 8 May, 1934. By mid-1937 she was back in Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Robert G. Hamond, 3 November, 1919 – 12 December, 1919
• Commander Astley D. C. Cooper-Key, 13 December, 1919 – January, 1920^[Inference]
• Commander Claud F. Allsup, 9 January, 1920 – 15 January, 1921
• Commander Arthur M. Lecky, 15 January, 1921 – May, 1921
• Captain Theodore E. J. Bigg, 25 June, 1921 – 16 August, 1922  (and as Captain (D), Fifth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Cyril St. C. Cameron, 16 August, 1922 – 30 April, 1924  (and as Captain (D), Fifth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Edward O. B. S. Osborne, 28 April, 1924 – 10 February, 1925  (and as Captain (D), Fifth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Commander Reginald V. Holt, January, 1925 – 8 February, 1925  (temporary, and as Commander (D), Fifth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Lieutenant-Commander John W. C. O. Shelton, 10 February, 1925
• Captain The Hon. Edward B. S. Bingham, 1 January, 1926 – 29 December, 1926  (and as Captain (D), Nore Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Richard A. A. Plowden, 29 December, 1926 – 29 June, 1928  (and as Captain (D), Nore Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Edmond J. G. Mackinnon, 29 June, 1928 – 15 February, 1929  (and as Captain (D), Nore Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Kenneth D. W. Macpherson, 15 February, 1929 – 24 October, 1929  (and as Captain (D), Nore Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Guy L. Coleridge, 24 October, 1929 – 27 June, 1931  (and as Captain (D), Nore Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Claude C. Dobson, 27 June, 1931 – 14 July, 1933  (and as Captain (D), Nore Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain William J. Whitworth, 17 October, 1931 – 7 December, 1931  (and as Captain (D), Nore Reserve Flotilla)
• Captain Frederick H. G. Dalrymple-Hamilton, 1 February, 1932 – 36 June, 1932  (and as Captain (D), Nore Reserve Flotilla)
• Captain George H. Creswell, 30 June, 1932 – May, 1933  (and as Captain (D), Nore Reserve Flotilla)
• Lieutenant-Commander Walter J. Phipps, 8 May, 1934
• Captain Benjamin C. S. Martin, 28 September, 1938 – 8 October, 1938  (and as Captain (D), Sixteenth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Thomas E. Halsey, 31 July, 1939 – 25 June, 1940  (and as Captain (D), Sixteenth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Augustus W. S. Agar, 25 June, 1940 – 13 July, 1940  (and as Captain (D), First Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Thomas E. Halsey, 12 August, 1940 – 22 October, 1940  (and as Captain (D), Sixteenth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Lieutenant-Commander Arthur E. T. Christie, 22 October, 1940 – 28 December, 1940
• Commander Clarence D. Howard-Johnston, 28 December, 1940 – February, 1942
• Lieutenant in Command Philip A. Jones, February, 1942 – 6 May, 1942
• Acting Commander Archibald B. Russell, 6 May, 1942 – 21 December, 1942
• Commander John M. Money, 21 December, 1942 – June, 1943
• Lieutenant in Command Ian M. Clegg, June, 1943 – October, 1943
• Commander R.N.V.R. Hugh Lloyd-Williams, 7 December, 1943 – mid 1945

See Also

• Wikipedia