H.M.S. Sterling (1918)

H.M.S. Sterling (1918)
Pendant Number:	F.A3 (Mar 1919)^[1]
Builder:	Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company^[2]
Ordered:	Apr, 1917 (1st Order)^[3]
Launched:	8 Oct, 1918^[4]
Completed:	Mar, 1919^[5]
Sold:

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

Service

Sterling recommissioned in Reserve at Chatham on 24 August, 1920.^[6]

She was re-commissioned on 7 February, 1925 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet.^[7]

Re-commissioned at the Nore on 7 January, 1927 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla on the China Station.^[8]

Re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 1 October, 1929 for continued service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla.^[9]

In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10. Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.^[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Lieutenant in Command Lawrence F. N. Ommanney, 5 May, 1919 – 11 July, 1919
Lieutenant & Commander Francis T. Hare, 15 July, 1919^[11] – 6 November, 1919
Commander Geoffrey N. Henson, 6 November, 1919^[Inference] (transferred in from Tenedos)
Commander Clement R. Dane, 1 November, 1919^[12] – 8 January, 1920^[13] (and in charge of a group of destroyers in reserve)
Commander Arthur A. Scott, 8 January, 1920^[14]^[15] – 15 July, 1921 (and for command of a group of T.B.Ds. in reserve)
Lieutenant-Commander Brian C. Gourley, 11 July, 1921^[16] – 20 February, 1922^[17]
Lieutenant-Commander Frederick Medway, 10 July, 1924^[18] – 21 August, 1924^[19] (temporary, for Reserve Fleet Exercises)
Lieutenant-Commander Bernard A. W. Warburton-Lee, 7 February, 1925^[20] – 30 March, 1926^[21]
Lieutenant-Commander Stephen H. T. Arliss, 30 March, 1926^[22] – February, 1929^[23]
Lieutenant-Commander Frank C. Husband-Clutton, 3 March, 1931^[24]^[25] – 14 February, 1932^[26]
Lieutenant-Commander Robert Dalby, c. early 1932^[27] – 1932 (transfer in from Veteran, taking ship back from China Station)

This seems somewhat jumbled in late 1919.

Footnotes

↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
↑ 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. 74.
↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 311.
↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 867.
↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 272.
↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 270.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 271.
↑ "Warships' Bells." The Times (London, England), 12 June 1933, p. 11.
↑ "Naval Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Jul 15, 1919; pg. 9; Issue 42152.
↑ Dane Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/34. f. ?.
↑ Dane Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/34. f. ?.
↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Saturday, January 10, 1920, Issue 42304, p.15.
↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 867.
↑ Gourley Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/51/33. f. 38.
↑ Gourley Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/51/33. f. 38.
↑ Medway Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/154/26. f. 26.
↑ Medway Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/154/26. f. 26.
↑ Warburton-Lee Service Record. The National Archives. ADM196/146. f. 1.
↑ Warburton-Lee Service Record. The National Archives. ADM196/146. f. 1.
↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 270.
↑ Arliss Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/66. f. 66.
↑ Husband-Clutton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/123/126. f. 126.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 271.
↑ Husband-Clutton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/123/126. f. 126.
↑ "Command of the Torrid." The Times (London, England), Monday, Jul 11, 1932; pg. 17; Issue 46182.