H.M.S. Spear (1919)

H.M.S. Spear (1919)
Pendant Number:	G.55 (Dec 1918)^[1]
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company^[2]
Ordered:	Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)^[3]
Launched:	9 Nov, 1919^[4]
Completed:	17 Dec, 1918^[5]
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H.M.S. Spear was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

Spear was recommissioned at Malta on 17 June, 1920.^[6]

She was reduced to Reserve Complement on 21 May 1924. By March 1925 she was attached to the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet.^[7]

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Lieutenant-Commander Alexander L. Fletcher, 6 December, 1918^[8]^[9] – 20 January, 1919^[10]
Lieutenant-Commander Francis W. Craven, c. January, 1919 – January, 1920
Lieutenant in Command David J. R. Simson, January, 1920^[11]^[12] – 20 March, 1922^[13]
Lieutenant-Commander Thomas B. Fellowes, 15 January, 1922^[14] – 30 September, 1923

↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 85.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 85.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 866.
↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 271.
↑ Fletcher Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/. f. ?.
↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 910.
↑ Fletcher Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/. f. ?. Last digit in day of month is questionable.
↑ Simson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/149. f. 150.
↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 866.
↑ Simson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/149. f. 150.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 271.