H.M.S. Vivien (1918)

H.M.S. Vivien (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.39 (Jun 1918)
Builder:	Yarrow & Company
Launched:	16 Feb, 1918
Completed:	28 May, 1918
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H.M.S. Vivien was one of twenty-five "V" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.

Service

Vivien was re-commissioned with a Reserve Crew on 15 November, 1922. By March 1925, she was running trials with Sperry Stabilising Gear.

She was re-commissioned with Reserve Crew on 4 November, 1925.

She was re-commissioned with Reserve Crew on 8 November, 1926.

Re-commissioned at Devonport on 27 April, 1931 for work with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet.

Vivien was re-commissioned in Reserve at The Nore on 23 July 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.

Paid off into Reserve at Chatham on 17 January, 1936.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Lewis G. E. Crabbe, 22 April, 1918 – 14 November, 1918
• Commander Richard B. England, 16 November, 1918 – 15 January, 1921
• Commander Henry I. M. L. Scott, 11 January, 1921 – 28 April, 1921
• Commander Arthur G. Tippet, 4 May, 1921 – 6 July, 1921  (temporary)
• Lieutenant-Commander Herbert Owen, 6 July, 1921 – 12 April, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander Christopher H. Ringrose, 12 April, 1922 – 14 September, 1922
• Lieutenant in Command Henry A. Simpson, 14 September, 1922 – November, 1922
• Commander Geoffrey W. Walker-Jones, 22 August, 1923
• Lieutenant-Commander Philip H. Calderon, 18 October, 1924 – May, 1925  (temporary, for trials)
• Lieutenant-Commander Henry A. Simpson, 4 November, 1925 – 26 February, 1926
• Lieutenant-Commander Frederick A. Richardson, 1926 – 1926  (transferred in and out from another ship, dates not recorded)
• Lieutenant-Commander Richard F. Jolly, c. April, 1929 – 3 November, 1929
• Lieutenant-Commander William D. G. Weir, December, 1929 – June, 1930  (transferred in from, and out to Vega)
• Lieutenant-Commander Arthur D. B. James, 26 July, 1930  (transferred out to Warwick)
• Captain Douglas A. Budgen, 27 April, 1931 – 10 August, 1931
• Captain Eldred S. Brooksmith, 10 August, 1931 – c. November 1931  (moved to Valorous on transfer)
• Commander Robert C. Woollerton, 29 December, 1931 – 19 April, 1932
• Captain Denis W. Boyd, 18 April, 1932 – July, 1932^[Inference]
• Commander Robert C. Woollerton, July, 1932 – 11 October, 1932  (transferred in from Valentine)
• Captain Ernest R. Archer, 1 July, 1935 – 30 August, 1935  (and as Captain (D), Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla)
• Commander David J. R. Simson, 6 September, 1935 – 18 January, 1936
• Lieutenant-Commander Hugh Gartside-Tippinge, 17 January, 1938 – 18 February, 1938
• Lieutenant-Commander John Bostock, 28 July, 1938 – 29 October, 1938
• Commander William D. G. Weir, 19 September, 1939 – 6 July, 1940  (re-commissioning her)
• Lieutenant-Commander Stephen H. Beattie, 6 July, 1940 – 9 January, 1942
• Lieutenant-Commander Rowland F. Leonard, 9 January, 1942 – 12 March, 1943
• Lieutenant in Command Lesley E. Blackmore, 12 March, 1943 – 3 February, 1945
• Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander R.N.V.R. Stanley M. Booker, 3 February, 1945 – mid 1945

See Also

• Wikipedia