H.M.S. Tasmania (1918)

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H.M.S. Tasmania (1918)
Pendant Number: G.97 (Feb 1919)[1]
Builder: William Beardmore & Company[2]
Ordered: Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)[3]
Launched: 22 Nov, 1918[4]
Completed: 29 Jan, 1919[5]
Sold:

H.M.S. Tasmania 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.

Service

The destroyer was re-commissioned as H.M.A.S. Tasmania for service in the Royal Australian Navy on 27 January 1920.

She was re-commissioned at Sydney on 20 September, 1922.[6]

In mid-1931, she was in reserve at Sydney,[7] where she commissioned on 31 July.[8]

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. 311.
  6. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 295.
  7. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 295.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 298.
  9. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 914.
  10. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 951a.
  11. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 904.
  12. The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 295.
  13. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 298.

Bibliography


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