H.M.S. Spindrift (1918)

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H.M.S. Spindrift (1918)
Pendant Number: G.21 (Apr 1919)[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Ordered: Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)[3]
Launched: 30 Dec, 1918[4]
Completed: 2 Apr, 1919[5]
Sold:

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

Service

She was reduced to Reserve at Devonport on 14 August, 1920.[6]

Commissioned on 16 November, 1927. By early 1929, she was in Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth, where she remained until at least October 1935.[7][8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 75.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 85.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 85.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 75.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
  6. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 271.
  7. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 270.
  8. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 276.
  9. Neville Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/221. f. 233.
  10. Neville Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/221. f. 233.
  11. Wyld Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/51. f. 256.
  12. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 866.
  13. Wyld Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/51. f. 256.
  14. Yorke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/260. f. 275.
  15. Yorke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/260. f. 275.

Bibliography


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