H.M.S. Minion (1915)

H.M.S. Minion (1915)
Pendant Number:	H.C7 (1914) G.09 (Jan 1918) G.14 (Apr 1918) H.82 (Jun 1918)
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Ordered:	Sep 1914
Launched:	11 Sep, 1915
Completed:	Nov, 1915
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H.M.S. Minion 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, November, 1915 – c. late November, 1915
• Lieutenant-Commander Henry C. Rawlings, December, 1915 – 25 August, 1917  (in command at Battle of Jutland)
• Lieutenant-Commander William G. A. Shuttleworth, 25 August, 1917 – 23 February, 1918
• Lieutenant in Command Frederick R. M. Johnson, 23 February, 1918 – 12 May, 1918
• Lieutenant-Commander Spencer F. Russell, 12 May, 1918 – 26 March, 1919
• Commander Richard A. A. Plowden, 26 March, 1919 – 1 October, 1919

See Also

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