H.M.S. Oakley (1917)

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H.M.S. Oakley (1917)
Admiralty Pendant Number: 497[1]
Pendant Number: T.1C (Jun 1918)[2]
Builder: Lobnitz & Company[3]
Ordered: mid 1916[4]
Launched: 10 Jan, 1917[5]
Commissioned: 1917[6]
Sold: early 1923[7]
H.M.S. Oakley was one of one hundred and fourteen Hunt Class minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

After working on mine clearance in the Baltic with the Eleventh Fleet Sweeping Flotilla, in January 1920, Oakley, Holderness, Heythrop and Cattistock were ordered to be paid off at Portsmouth and taken to Harwich to be placed in the hands of Care and Maintenance Parties.[8]

Oakley paid off at Portsmouth on 15 January, 1920.[9]

In January, 1921, she was at Harwich, one of forty-one paid off minesweepers there.[10]

Captains

Bell's Service Record implies that he may have commanded until 20 January, 1920, but perhaps he ceded command to Stewart to focus on Flotilla command?

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 112.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. "C" denotes Code pendant here. p. 112.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 112.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
  7. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
  8. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jan 09, 1920; pg. 4; Issue 42303.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 817.
  10. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 707a.
  11. The Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 396.
  12. Neish Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/6. f. 6.
  13. Neish Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/6. f. 6.
  14. Clarke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/56/132. f. 132.
  15. The Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 853.
  16. Clarke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/56/132. f. 132.
  17. The Navy List. (September, 1919). p. 853.
  18. The Navy List. (January, 1920). p. 817.

Bibliography


Hunt Class Minesweeper
Ailsa Design
Belvoir Bicester Blackmorevale Cotswold Cottesmore
Cattistock Croome Dartmoor Garth Hambledon
Heythrop Holderness Meynell Muskerry Oakley
Pytchley Quorn Southdown Tedworth Zetland
Admiralty Design
Aberdare Abingdon Albury Alresford Beaufort
Collinson Appledore Leamington Badminton Bagshot
Barnstaple Swindon Banchory Bloxham Bradfield
Burslem Goole Blackburn Bootle Caerleon
Camberley Carstairs Caterham Battle Fermoy
Forfar Bury Cheam Gretna Harrow
Havant Huntley Instow Gaddesden Gainsborough
Northolt Clonmel Elgin Sherborne Tiverton
Tonbridge Tralee Tring Truro Kellett
Verwood Wem Wexford Craigie Derby
Dorking Dundalk Dunoon Fairfield Forres
Cupar Sutton Fareham Faversham Ford
Rugby Irvine Kendal Kinross Lydd
Longford Marlow Mistley Monaghan Mallaig
Malvern Marazion Munlochy Nailsea Newark
Repton Weybourne Pangbourne Penarth Petersfield
Pinner Pontypool Prestatyn Radley Ross
Salford Saltash Saltburn Selkirk Shrewsbury
Sligo Widnes Yeovil Stafford Stoke
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