H.M.S. Murray (1914)

H.M.S. Murray (1914)
Pendant Number:	H.A4 (1914) H.86 (Jan 1918) D.33 (Sep 1918)
Builder:	Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Ordered:	1913 Programme
Launched:	6 Aug, 1914
Completed:	Dec, 1914
Sold:	May, 1921

H.M.S. Murray was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the "M" class built for the Royal Navy during the Great War.

Service

Around March 1915, Murray joined the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla, which would become part of the Harwich Force.

Around July 1917, Murray moved over to the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, which was a component of the Dover Patrol.

On 14 January, 1918 Murray collided with Vehement through was was determined to be an error in judgement on the part of her Lt. in Command, Hugh Bourchier Wrey.

Murray collided with Phoebe on 6 September, 1918.

Murray was reduced to C. & M. Party at Portsmouth, 17 October, 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander Henry T. Dorling, 3 November, 1914 – 30 May, 1917^[Inference]
• Commander Montague R. Bernard, 30 May, 1917 – 6 November, 1917
• Lieutenant in Command Hugh B. Wrey, 6 November, 1917 – 29 January, 1918
• Lieutenant-Commander Evelyn H. B. L. Scrivener, 29 January, 1918 – March, 1918
• Lieutenant in Command Frederick H. G. Dalrymple-Hamilton, 1 March, 1918 – 19 April, 1918
• Lieutenant in Command Frederick H. G. Dalrymple-Hamilton, 3 May, 1918 – 3 February, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Henry M. Coombs, 3 February, 1919 – 15 February, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command James C. Collie, 15 February, 1919 – 17 October, 1919

See Also

• Wikipedia
• The extensive, lightly- (to heavily-) fictionalized works by H. Taprell Dorling under his nom de plume, "Taffrail"