H.M.S. Moon (1915)

H.M.S. Moon (1915)
Pendant Number:	H.C8 (Feb 1915) G.12 (Jan 1917) G.11 (Jan 1918) G.11 (Apr 1918) F.69 (Jun 1918)
Builder:	Yarrow & Company
Launched:	23 Apr, 1915
Completed:	Jun, 1915
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H.M.S. Moon was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the "M" class built for the Royal Navy during the Great War.

Service

Moon 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 Portsmouth, 17 October, 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander Arthur G. Onslow, 5 June, 1915 – July, 1915
• Commander (acting) William D. Irvin, June, 1915 – mid 1916  (in command at Battle of Jutland)
• Commander Norton A. Sulivan, July, 1915 – 24 October, 1915
• Commander Richard A. A. Plowden, 26 July, 1915 – 10 May, 1916
• Lieutenant-Commander Robert E. M. Harris, 31 July, 1916 – 30 November, 1918
• Lieutenant-Commander Kenneth B. Millar, 30 November, 1918 – 1 October, 1919

The contradiction between Sulivan and Plowden should be explored.

See Also

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