H.M.S. Strenuous (1918)

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H.M.S. Strenuous (1918)
Pendant Number: G.64 (Jan 1919)[1]
Builder: Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Ordered: Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)[3]
Launched: 9 Nov, 1918[4]
Completed: Jan, 1919[5]
Sold:

H.M.S. Strenuous was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending. She was completed just after the war ended.

Service

Strenuous was re-commissioned with Reserve Complement at Devonport on 6 May, 1920.[6]

She was re-commissioned on 19 May, 1922.[7]

Paid off into Maintenance Reserve on 20 December, 1927.[8]

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.[9]

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. (January, 1921). p. 868.
  7. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 271.
  8. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 271.
  9. "Warships' Bells." The Times (London, England), 12 June 1933, p. 11.
  10. Blackman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/336. f. ?.
  11. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 911a.
  12. Blackman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/336. f. ?.
  13. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 868.

Bibliography


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