H.M.S. Somali (1937)

H.M.S. Somali (1937)
Pendant Number:	F33
Builder:	Swan Hunter
Laid down:	26 Aug, 1936
Launched:	24 Aug, 1937
Commissioned:	12 Dec, 1938
Torpedoed:	20 Sep, 1942
Fate:	by U.703

H.M.S. Somali was one of twenty-seven Tribal Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Captains

• Captain Randolph S. G. Nicholson, 1 December, 1938 – 31 May, 1940  (and as Captain (D), Sixth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Commander Lionel P. Skipwith, 31 May, 1940 – 5 September, 1940
• Captain Clifford Caslon, 5 September, 1940 – 23 January, 1941
• Lieutenant-Commander Thomas H. B. Shaw, 23 January, 1941 – 19 February, 1941
• Captain Clifford Caslon, 19 February, 1941 – 24 July, 1941
• Captain Donald K. Bain, 15 August, 1941 – 22 March, 1942
• Captain John W. M. Eaton, 23 March, 1942 – 28 July, 1942
• Commander Edmund N. V. Currey, 28 July, 1942 – September, 1942
• Lieutenant-Commander Colin D. Maud, September, 1942 – 20 September, 1942  (ship lost under his command)

See Also

• Wikipedia