H.M.S. Menace (1915)

H.M.S. Menace (1915)
Pendant Number:	H.7C (1914) G.28 (Jan 1917) G.30 (Jan 1918) G.6A (Jun 1918)
Builder:	Swan Hunter
Ordered:	Sep 1914
Launched:	9 Nov, 1915
Completed:	Apr, 1916
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H.M.S. Menace was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the "M" class built for the Royal Navy during the Great War.

Service

Menace joined the Twelfth Destroyer Flotilla in April, 1916, and operated with it at the Battle of Jutland.

She reduced to C. & M. Party at the Nore on 3 December, 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander Charles A. Poignand, 11 February, 1916 – 9 November, 1917  (in command at Battle of Jutland)
• Lieutenant-Commander Brian C. Gourley, 20 September, 1917 – 14 August, 1918  (temporary, while Poignand suffered from neurasthenia)
• Lieutenant in Command Ivo W. L. Frewen-Laton, 9 July, 1918 – 11 February, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command Donald C. Brock, 11 February, 1919 – 26 March, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Harold O. Joyce, c. 28 March, 1919 – 15 August, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Harold O. Joyce, 15 August, 1919 – 11 October, 1919  (now, also in command of a group of T.B.Ds.)

See Also

• Twelfth D.F. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland
• Wikipedia