H.M.S. Tenedos (1918)

H.M.S. Tenedos (1918)
Pendant Number:	F.A4 (Jun 1919)
Builder:	Hawthorn Leslie & Company
Ordered:	Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)
Launched:	21 Oct, 1918
Completed:	Jun, 1919
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H.M.S. Tenedos was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending. She was completed after the war.

The old ironclad Triumph was re-named Tenedos in 1904.

Service

Tenedos was completed to Full crew at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.

Re-commissioned on 30 June, 1921.

She paid off into Maintenance Reserve in Rosyth on 15 November, 1927.

Commissioned at Rosyth on 16 September, 1930.

Paid off into Reserve at Portsmouth on 1 June, 1932.

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.

She was commissioned on 1 June, 1934 in the Reserve Fleet in Devonport.

Tenedos was commissioned at Devonport on 14 October, 1935.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Geoffrey N. Henson, c. October, 1919 – c. late October, 1919  (transferred out to Sterling)
• Lieutenant in Command Francis T. Hare, c. late October, 1919 – 13 November, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Lewes G. Gardner, 13 November, 1919 – 1 July, 1921
• Commander Alan F. W. Howard, 10 July, 1924 – 2 February, 1925  (lent for Reserve Fleet Exercises)
• Commander Philip G. Wodehouse, c. October, 1927 – 15 November, 1927
• Commander Reginald F. Morice, 1 October, 1930 – 26 April, 1932
• Commander Philip H. Calderon, 26 April, 1932  (left to Amazon on transfer)
• Lieutenant-Commander Edward G. Le Geyt,  – 20 June, 1939
• Lieutenant-Commander John O'B. Milner-Barry, 20 June, 1939 – 26 July 1941  (vice Le Geyt)
• Lieutenant in Command Richard Dyer, July 1941 – 5 April, 1942  (ship lost under his command)

See Also

• Wikipedia