H.M.S. Winchester (1918)

H.M.S. Winchester (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.43 (Apr 1918)
Builder:	J. Samuel White
Ordered:	December, 1916
Launched:	1 Feb, 1918
Completed:	24 May, 1918
Sold:	5 Mar, 1946

H.M.S. Winchester was one of twenty-one "W" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.

Service

Winchester re-commissioned in Portsmouth on 10 January, 1927 for service with the torpedo training school H.M.S. Vernon. Her captain would henceforth be in charge of all tenders associated with the school.

Due to an error in judgement on the part of Cdr. Henry Maurice Coombs, Winchester collided with the aircraft carrier Courageous in 1931.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander John L. Field, 5 April, 1918 – 10 May, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander The Hon. George Fraser, 2 June, 1919 – 15 March, 1920
• Commander Archibald A. Lovett-Cameron, January, 1920 – 7 January, 1921
• Commander John C. S. Paterson, 7 January, 1921 – 15 September, 1921
• Commander Ralph Leatham, 15 September, 1921 – 16 January, 1922
• Commander Francis D. Mowat, 16 January, 1922 – 7 December, 1922
• Commander Hugh P. Cotton, 1 December, 1922 – 16 June, 1924
• Commander Frederic C. Bradley, 7 June, 1924 – 8 October, 1925
• Commander Charles R. Peploe, 8 October, 1925
• Commander Hamilton E. Snepp, 7 June, 1926 – September, 1926
• Commander Hamilton E. Snepp, December, 1926 – 5 January, 1927  (took command upon re-commissioning)
• Commander Douglas Faviell, January, 1927  (and in command of Vernon's Flotilla)
• Commander Henry P. Wilson, 21 February, 1929 – 28 April, 1930  (and in command of Vernon's Flotilla)
• Commander (I Gr.) Thomas C. C. Bolster, 29 April, 1930 – 23 March, 1931
• Commander Henry M. Coombs, 23 March, 1931 – 27 February, 1932
• Captain Francis Howard, 27 February, 1932 – 5 January, 1934  (and in command of Vernon flotilla)
• Captain Walter N. T. Beckett, 5 January, 1934 – 21 September, 1936  (and in command of Vernon flotilla)
• Commander Edward L. Berthon, 21 September, 1936 – 14 July, 1937  (and in command of Vernon flotilla)
• Commander Philip N. Walter, 14 July, 1937 – 28 July, 1938  (and in command of Vernon flotilla)
• Commander Alan MacG. Sheffield, 22 July, 1938  (and in command of Vernon flotilla)
• Lieutenant-Commander Stuart E. Crewe-Read, 9 March, 1940 – January 1941
• Lieutenant in Command Robert A. Morgan, January 1941 – 3 February, 1941
• Lieutenant-Commander Dermod J. B. Jewitt, 3 February, 1941 – 31 May, 1942
• Lieutenant in Command John R. Gower, 31 May, 1942 – 17 August, 1943
• Lieutenant in Command John K. Lyon, 17 August, 1943 – late 1944

See Also

• Wikipedia