H.M.S. Mons (1915)

H.M.S. Mons (1915)
Pendant Number:	H.2A (1914) G.11 (Jan 1917) G.10 (Jan 1918) G.1A (Apr 1918) H.89 (Jun 1918)
Builder:	John Brown & Company
Ordered:	Sep 1914
Launched:	1 May, 1915
Completed:	Jul, 1915
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H.M.S. Mons was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the "M" class built for the Royal Navy during the Great War.

Service

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

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander Charles G. C. Sumner, July, 1915 – 11 February, 1916  (transferred in to command from Fury)
• Lieutenant-Commander Robert Makin, 11 February, 1916 – 2 January, 1917  (in command at Battle of Jutland)
• Lieutenant in Command George A. Scott, 2 January, 1917 – 13 January, 1918  (superseded upon falling ill)
• Lieutenant-Commander Hugh J. Woodward, 13 January, 1918 – 3 March, 1918  (substituting for the il Scott)
• Lieutenant in Command George A. Scott, 3 March, 1918 – August, 1918
• Commander Geoffrey N. Henson, 30 August, 1918 – 12 April, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command Norman A. G. Ohlenschlager, 15 April, 1919 – 13 November, 1919

See Also

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