H.M.S. Seawolf (1918)

H.M.S. Seawolf (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.47 (Feb 1919)
Builder:	John Brown & Company
Ordered:	Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)
Launched:	2 Nov, 1918
Completed:	Jan, 1919
Sold:

H.M.S. Seawolf was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

Completed to full crew on 20 October, 1919.

Commissioned 15 July, 1921.

Reduced to three-fifths complement on 1 December, 1925.

In 1930, she collided with a steam trawler Walter S. Bailey and Cdr. Herbert Masterman Hughes would be told to be more careful in future.

It was decided in September 1930 to offer her for sale in light of her damaged condition, and she was to be relived by the Tenedos from the Rosyth Maintenance Reserve.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Acting Engineer Lieutenant-Commander Herbert Scott, 4 July, 1918 – 10 May, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Roy Bacchus, 27 January, 1919 – 1 October, 1919
• Commander Ralph W. Wilkinson, 12 November, 1919 – May, 1921
• Commander Evelyn H. B. L. Scrivener, 29 January, 1920 – 2 February, 1920  (temporary)
• Commander Charles F. R. Cowan, 21 June, 1921 – 1 August, 1922
• Commander John C. Tovey, 1 August, 1922 – 7 January, 1924
• Commander Gerald C. Harrison, 7 January, 1924 – 9 January, 1925
• Commander Lawrence D'O. Bignell, 16 January, 1925 – 26 August, 1925
• Commander Geoffrey S. Arbuthnot, 26 August, 1925 – 7 March, 1926
• Commander (I Gr.) Thomas C. C. Bolster, 3 July, 1926 – 31 December, 1927
• Commander Ralph Kerr, 13 December, 1927 – December, 1928
• Commander Donal S. McGrath, 11 December, 1928 – 4 June, 1929
• Commander Herbert M. Hughes, 4 June, 1929 – 13 August, 1930
• Lieutenant-Commander Reginald F. Morice, 13 August, 1930 – 1 October, 1930

There seems to be some confusion between Bolster and Arbuthnot.

See Also

• Wikipedia