H.M.S. Speedy (1918)

H.M.S. Speedy (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.36 (Sep 1918)^[1]
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft & Company^[2]
Ordered:	Apr, 1917 (1st Order)^[3]
Launched:	1 Jun, 1918^[4]
Completed:	14 Aug, 1918^[5]
Collision:	29 Sep, 1922^[6]
Fate:	w/ tug in Sea of Marmara

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

Service

She recommissioned at Malta on 17 June, 1920.^[7]

Speedy was lost after she collided with a tugboat in the Sea of Marmora in September, 1922. She was replaced in service by the destroyer Tourmaline under Lt. Cdr. Donal S. McGrath. Speedy's survivors would also join the new ship.^[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Lieutenant in Command Reginald Nash, 5 July, 1918^[9]^[10] – 21 January, 1919^[11]
Commander Hubert H. de Burgh, 21 January, 1919 – March, 1920
Commander Edward O. Tudor, March, 1920^[12]
Commander Ralph W. Wilkinson, 26 February, 1922^[13] – 24 September, 1922^[14]

Footnotes

↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 75.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 75.
↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 311.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 75.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 866.
↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 2 Nov. 1922, p. 20.
↑ Nash Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/183. f. 551.
↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 910.
↑ Nash Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/183. f. 551.
↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 866.
↑ Wilkinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/89. f. 47.
↑ Wilkinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/89. f. 47.