H.M.S. Mindful (1915)

H.M.S. Mindful (1915)
Pendant Number:	G.04(1914) G.31 (Jan 1918) H.91 (Jun 1918)
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Ordered:	Nov 1914 (1st Order)
Launched:	24 Aug, 1915
Completed:	10 Nov, 1915
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H.M.S. Mindful was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the "M" class built for the Royal Navy during the Great War.

Service

Mindful was one of the first three destroyers in the Twelfth Destroyer Flotilla when it was first formed in November, 1915.

She operated with the Twelfth Destroyer Flotilla at the Battle of Jutland.

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

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander Guy P. Bowles, 19 October, 1915 – November, 1915
• Lieutenant-Commander Arthur G. H. Bond, c. January, 1916 – 4 February, 1916
• Lieutenant-Commander John J. C. Ridley, 4 February, 1916 – 26 November, 1917  (in command at Battle of Jutland)
• Commander John O. Barron, 26 November, 1917 – 18 April, 1918
• Lieutenant-Commander Horace Walker, 17 April, 1918 – 29 January, 1919
• Commander Richard A. A. Plowden, 29 January, 1919 – 26 March, 1919

See Also

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