H.M.S. Milbrook (1915)

H.M.S. Milbrook (1915)
Pendant Number:	H.C6 (1914) G.08 (Jan 1917) H.A2 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Ordered:	Sep 1914
Launched:	12 Jul, 1915
Completed:	Oct, 1915
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H.M.S. Milbrook was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the "M" class built for the Royal Navy during the Great War.

Service

She fought at the Battle of Jutland, screening the Battle Fleet as one of the 14 "M" class destroyers of the Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla.

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport on 15 October, 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander Lawrence D'O. Bignell, 16 September, 1915 – c. October, 1915
• Lieutenant in Command Charles G. Naylor, 11 May, 1916 – 19 June, 1918  (in command at Battle of Jutland)
• Lieutenant in Command Hugh S. Egerton, 19 June, 1918 – 2 October, 1918
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command John N. Shipton, 4 January, 1919 – c. March 1919
• Lieutenant in Command John E. Phayre, 21 March, 1919 – 1 October, 1919

See Also

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