H.M.S. Ursa (1917)

H.M.S. Ursa (1917)
Pendant Number:	F.10 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Ordered:	Mar 1916 (8th Order)
Launched:	23 Jul, 1917
Completed:	Oct, 1917
Sold:	13 Jul, 1926

H.M.S. Ursa was one of sixty-two "R" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1916-17.

Service

Ursa joined the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla in October, 1917.

On 24 November 1917, Ursa was involved in a collision with Wakeful in an unspecified port.

Ursa completed to Full Complement at Portsmouth on 23 August, 1920.

She reduced to Reserve on 22 February, 1922.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander Jack E. A. Mocatta, 15 September, 1917 – October, 1917
• Commander John C. Tovey, 28 September, 1917 – 2 April, 1918
• Lieutenant-Commander Percy R. P. Percival, 23 January, 1918 – 7 February, 1919  (temporary)
• Lieutenant-Commander Philip A. Heyder, 7 February, 1918 – 9 February, 1918  (immediately sick, may not have actually joined the ship)
• Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Evans, 2 April, 1918 – 27 January, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command Patrick Butter, 27 January, 1919 – 28 November, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command Ivan B. Colvin, August, 1920 – 15 October, 1920
• Lieutenant-Commander Edward Eastwick-Field, 15 October, 1920 – 22 February, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander Trevor St. V. F. Tyler, 10 July, 1924 – 21 August, 1924  (temporary, for Reserve Fleet Exercises)

See Also

• Wikipedia