H.M.S. Plover (1916)

H.M.S. Plover (1916)
Pendant Number:	G.65 (Sep 1915) G.67 (Jan 1917)
Builder:	Hawthorn Leslie & Company
Launched:	3 Mar, 1916
Completed:	30 Jun, 1916
Sold:	1921

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

Service

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Frederick E. K. Strong, 13 June, 1916 – June, 1916
• Commander Reginald B. C. Hutchinson, June, 1916 – 11 June, 1917
• Lieutenant in Command Walter C. Clark-Hall, 29 July, 1916 – 9 August, 1916  (temporary, while Hutchinson is in hospital)
• Commander Reginald St. P. Parry, 11 June, 1917 – 19 July, 1917  (temporary)
• Commander Reginald B. C. Hutchinson, 19 July, 1917 – 9 May, 1918
• Lieutenant-Commander Kenneth C. Helyar, 9 May, 1918 – 20 May, 1918
• Lieutenant-Commander Henry P. Boxer, 16 May, 1918 – December, 1918
• Lieutenant in Command Arthur K. Gibson, December, 1918 – 15 February, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Philip A. Heyder, 15 February, 1919 – 1 October, 1919

See Also

• Wikipedia