H.M.S. Tactician (1918)

H.M.S. Tactician (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.54 (Nov 1918)
Builder:	William Beardmore & Company
Ordered:	Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)
Launched:	7 Aug, 1918
Completed:	23 Oct, 1918
Sold:

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

Service

Tactician was re-commissioned 1 November, 1919 at Devonport, tender to Defiance.

Reduced to Reserve on 13 May, 1922.

Commissioned 16 December, 1927 as part of the Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander Ernald G. H. Master, 27 September, 1918 – 3 February, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Basil W. L. Owen, 3 February, 1919 – 1 September, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command Hamilton E. Snepp, August, 1919 – September, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Ralph Neville, 27 October, 1919 – 1 November, 1920
• Lieutenant in Command James Figgins, 1 November, 1920 – 13 May, 1922
• Lieutenant in Command Ronald G. Chichester, 10 July, 1924 – 21 August, 1924  (temporary, for Reserve Fleet Exercises)

See Also

• Wikipedia