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Revision as of 17:41, 20 April 2018

H.M.S. Shamrock (1918)
Pendant Number: F.50 (Aug 1919)[1]
Builder: Doxford[2]
Ordered: Apr, 1917 (1st Order)[3]
Launched: 26 Aug, 1918[4]
Completed: 16 Sep, 1919[5]
Handed over:

H.M.S. Shamrock was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

Shamrock completed to full crew at Chatham on 11 October, 1919.[6]

She was reduced to Reserve Complement on 16 June, 1924.[7]

Commissioned 18 November, 1927.[8]

She commissioned at Portsmouth on 3 November, 1930 and proceeded to serve out of Gibraltar.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 311.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 863.
  7. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 269.
  8. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 269.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 272.
  10. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 863.
  11. Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  12. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 863.
  13. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 269.
  14. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 272.

Bibliography


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Sparrowhawk Splendid Sabre Saladin Sikh
Sirdar Somme Success Shamrock Shikari
Senator Sepoy Seraph Swallow Swordsman
Steadfast Sterling Tribune Trinidad Tactician
Tara Tasmania Tattoo Scythe Seabear
Seafire Searcher Seawolf Sportive Stalwart
Tilbury Tintagel Sardonyx Stonehenge Stormcloud
Spear Spindrift Serapis Serene Sesame
Strenuous Stronghold Sturdy Trojan Truant
Trusty Turbulent Tenedos Thanet Thracian
Thornycroft Specials
Speedy Tobago Torbay Toreador Tourmaline
Yarrow Specials
Torch Tomahawk Tryphon Tumult Turquoise
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