H.M.S. Stormcloud (1919)

H.M.S. Stormcloud (1919)
Pendant Number:	D.89 (Jan 1920)
Builder:	Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Ordered:	Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)
Launched:	30 May, 1919
Completed:	28 Jan, 1919
Sold:	28 Jul, 1934

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

Service

Stormcloud was commissioned on 20 January, 1920.

She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 28 January, 1925.

Re-commissioned at the Nore on 7 January, 1927.

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

In November 1929, she collided with Somme through circumstances a Court of Enquiry determined was a lack of through and consideration on the part of Lt. Cdr. Walter J. B. Handley.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Francis W. D. Twigg, 16 December, 1919 – 1 January, 1921
• Lieutenant-Commander George A. Scott, 1 January, 1921 – May, 1921
• Lieutenant-Commander Percival C. W. Manwaring, 29 June, 1921 – 18 March, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander William S. Bardwell, 10 July, 1924 – c. 20 August, 1924^[Inference]  (temporary, for Reserve Fleet Exercises)
• Lieutenant-Commander Alfred C. Collinson, January, 1925 – 14 August, 1925
• Lieutenant-Commander Percival H. G. James, 14 August, 1925 – March, 1929
• Lieutenant-Commander Henry F. Waight, 1 February, 1929 – August, 1929
• Lieutenant-Commander Walter J. B. Handley, 1 October, 1929 – 1931^[Inference]  (additional, from 15 July 1929)

See Also

• Wikipedia