H.M.S. Steadfast (1918)

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H.M.S. Steadfast (1918)
Pendant Number: F.99 (Mar 1919)[1]
Builder: Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company[2]
Ordered: Apr, 1917 (1st Order)[3]
Launched: 8 Aug, 1918[4]
Completed: Mar, 1919[5]
Sold:

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

Service

Steadfast was recommissioned with Reserve Complement at the Nore on 25 June, 1920.[6]

She was commissioned on 6 October, 1927. By early 1929, she was in Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth,[7] but was commissioned on 6 March, 1929.[8]

Reduced to Reserve on 31 May, 1932.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 311.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 270.
  7. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 270.
  8. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 271.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 274.
  10. Schurr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/191. f. ?.
  11. The Navy List. (September, 1919). p. 910.
  12. Schurr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/191. f. ?.

Bibliography


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Tara Tasmania Tattoo Scythe Seabear
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Spear Spindrift Serapis Serene Sesame
Strenuous Stronghold Sturdy Trojan Truant
Trusty Turbulent Tenedos Thanet Thracian
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Speedy Tobago Torbay Toreador Tourmaline
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