H.M.S. Redgauntlet (1916)

H.M.S. Redgauntlet (1916)
Pendant Number:	F.58 (1916) F.51 (Jul 1917)F.A4 (Aug 1917) F.97 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	William Denny & Brothers
Ordered:	Jul 1915 (6th Order)
Launched:	23 Nov, 1916
Completed:	7 Feb, 1917
Sold:	Jul, 1927

H.M.S. Redgauntlet was one of 62 destroyers of the "R" class.

Service

Reduced to Reserve Complement at the Nore on 24 August, 1920.

Re-commissioned on 6 March, 1925 with Special Complement.

Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 1 July, 1925.

In August of 1925, Redgauntlet, along with Raider, Rocket and Retriever of the Portland Anti-Submarine Flotilla were selected to be scrapped.

Following an earlier round of a flotilla leader and seventeen destroyers, Redgauntlet was named as one of an additional fifteen destroyers to be scrapped in the fiscal year starting 1 April, 1926.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Malcolm L. Goldsmith, 25 January, 1917 – January, 1918
• Commander Aubrey T. Tillard, 24 January, 1918 – 9 April, 1918
• Commander Vernon S. Butler, 9 April, 1918 – 28 January, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command Alban Knubley, 25 March, 1919 – 31 March, 1920
• Commander Leveson G. B. A. Campbell, 21 June, 1921 – 24 August, 1920  (for Reserve Fleet Exercises)
• Lieutenant-Commander Cyril Gore, 10 July, 1924 – 21 August, 1924  (temporary, for Reserve Fleet Exercises)
• Lieutenant-Commander Theodore F. A. Voysey, 5 January, 1925 – 22 July, 1926

See Also

• Wikipedia