H.M.S. Sharpshooter (1917)

H.M.S. Sharpshooter (1917)
Pendant Number:	F.48 (Jan 1917) F.61 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	William Beardmore & Company
Ordered:	Dec 1915 (7th Order)
Launched:	27 Feb, 1917
Completed:	2 Apr, 1917
Sold:	29 Apr, 1927

H.M.S. Sharpshooter was one of sixty-two "R" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1916-17.

Service

Sharpshooter reduced to Reserve Complement at Portsmouth on 5 March, 1919.

Following an earlier round of a flotilla leader and seventeen destroyers, Sharpshooter 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.

• Lieutenant in Command William R. Leycester, 10 March, 1917 – late March, 1917
• Lieutenant-Commander Edye K. Boddam-Whetham, March, 1917 – October, 1917
• Lieutenant-Commander Cecil R. E. W. Perryman, 13 February, 1918 – 5 February, 1920
• Commander Kenneth F. Sworder, 5 February, 1920 – 5 February, 1922
• Commander Laurence R. Palmer, 5 February, 1922 – 13 July, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander Valentine Searles-Wood, 13 July, 1922 – August, 1924
• Lieutenant-Commander Tom B. V. Thomas, 29 August, 1924 – c. late August, 1926  (transferred out to Restless)

See Also

• Wikipedia