H.M.S. Toreador (1918)

H.M.S. Toreador (1918)
Pendant Number:	F.6A (Apr 1919)
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Ordered:	Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)
Launched:	7 Dec, 1918
Completed:	Apr, 1919
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H.M.S. Toreador 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.

In 1928, she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, becoming H.M.C.S. Vancouver.

Service

She was reduced to Reserve at Portsmouth on 16 August, 1920.

The ship commissioned at Portsmouth on 1 March 1928 as H.M.C.S. Vancouver.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander John M. Porter, 23 September, 1919 – 16 April, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Frederic C. Bradley, 10 December, 1919 – 17 January, 1920  (and for charge of a group of T.B.Ds. in reserve)
• Lieutenant-Commander Hugh R. Troup, 17 January, 1920 – 15 January, 1921  (and for charge of a group of T.B.Ds. in reserve, and for Reserve Fleet Exercises)
• Lieutenant-Commander Ronald I. Agnew, 13 February, 1928
• Lieutenant-Commander Frederick G. Hart, 20 January, 1931 – 1933
• Lieutenant-Commander Frank L. Houghton, 20 December, 1933

See Also

• Wikipedia