H.M.S. Simoom (1918)

H.M.S. Simoom (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.44 ((Apr 1918)
Builder:	John Brown & Company
Ordered:	Apr, 1917 (1st Order)
Launched:	26 Jan, 1918
Completed:	Mar, 1918
Sold:

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

There was a previous "R" class destroyer named Simoom launched in 1916 but lost in January 1917.

Service

She reduced to Reserve at Devonport in February, 1920.

Paid off into Maintenance Reserve on 23 December, 1927.

Simoom arrived at Sheerness on 18 October, 1930.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Edwin A. Homan, 18 February, 1918 – 14 June, 1918
• Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey W. Walker-Jones, 14 June, 1918 – 1 February, 1920
• Lieutenant-Commander Edward Eastwick-Field, 9 February, 1920 – 15 October, 1920  (and for group of T.B.Ds. in reserve)
• Lieutenant-Commander John S. Prescott-Roberts, 15 October, 1920 – 2 March, 1921  (and for group of T.B.Ds. in reserve)
• Lieutenant-Commander Harold R. W. Turnor, November, 1927 – 15 March, 1928  (lent, for passage to Rosyth)

See Also

• Wikipedia