H.M.S. Scythe (1918)

H.M.S. Scythe (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.32 (Sep 1918)
Builder:	John Brown & Company
Ordered:	Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)
Launched:	25 Apr, 1918
Completed:	Jul, 1918
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H.M.S. Scythe was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

She reduced to Reserve at Devonport on 12 November, 1919.

Commissioned 4 April, 1923.

Reduced to three-fifths complement on 28 December, 1925.

Re-commissioned at Devonport on 26 May, 1931.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Evelyn H. B. L. Scrivener, 22 June, 1918 – 29 January, 1920
• Lieutenant in Command in Command Walter F. Smithwick, 13 September, 1918 – November, 1918
• Commander Herbert W. Wyld, 9 February, 1920 – 21 June, 1920
• Lieutenant-Commander Alban Knubley, 17 March, 1924 – September, 1925
• Lieutenant-Commander Leslie T. Creery Hill, 1 September, 1925 – 31 December, 1927
• Lieutenant-Commander John G. Crossley, 31 December, 1927 – 21 August, 1928
• Lieutenant-Commander Francis E. Wilmot-Sitwell, 21 August, 1928 – 20 August, 1929
• Lieutenant-Commander Frank C. Husband-Clutton, 20 August, 1929 – 14 November, 1930

See Also

• Wikipedia