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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Fitzroy Hamilton Dalrymple Byron|nick=Fitzroy H. D. Byron|appt=3 December, 1915<ref>Byron Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/315.|D7604412}} f. 169.</ref>|end=27 July, 1917<ref>Byron Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/315.|D7604412}} f. 169.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Fitzroy Hamilton Dalrymple Byron|nick=Fitzroy H. D. Byron|appt=3 December, 1915<ref>Byron Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/315.|D7604412}} f. 169.</ref>|end=27 July, 1917<ref>Byron Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/315.|D7604412}} f. 169.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} (emergency)|name=Gilbert Esdaile Venning|nick=Gilbert E. Venning|appt=15 October, 1918|end=25 February, 1919}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Douglas Ramsden Attwood|nick=Douglas R. Attwood|appt=18 June, 1918<ref>Attwood Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/82/938.|C14636515}} f. ?.</ref>|end=24 November, 1918<ref>Attwood Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/82/938.|C14636515}} f. ?.</ref>|note=died in command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Douglas Ramsden Attwood|nick=Douglas R. Attwood|appt=18 June, 1918<ref>Attwood Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/82/938.|C14636515}} f. ?.</ref>|end=24 November, 1918<ref>Attwood Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/82/938.|C14636515}} f. ?.</ref>|note=died in command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Lancelot Vivian Donne|nick=Lancelot V. Donne|appt=25 November, 1918<ref>Donne Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/117/88.|D7605505}} 88.</ref>|end=14 September, 1920<ref>Donne Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/117/88.|D7605505}} 88.</ref>|note="vice Attwood"}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Lancelot Vivian Donne|nick=Lancelot V. Donne|appt=25 November, 1918<ref>Donne Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/117/88.|D7605505}} 88.</ref>|end=14 September, 1920<ref>Donne Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/117/88.|D7605505}} 88.</ref>|note="vice Attwood"}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Humphrey George Veale|nick=Humphrey G. Veale|appt=28 August, 1920<ref>Veale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/54/110.|D7605698}} f. 112.</ref>{{NLJan21|p. 777}}|end=21 February, 1921<ref>Veale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/54/110.|D7605698}} f. 112.</ref>|note=and of 5 other "G" class boats}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Humphrey George Veale|nick=Humphrey G. Veale|appt=28 August, 1920<ref>Veale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/54/110.|D7605698}} f. 112.</ref>{{NLJan21|p. 777}}|end=21 February, 1921<ref>Veale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/54/110.|D7605698}} f. 112.</ref>|note=and of 5 other "G" class boats}}
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Venning's data seems a bit off.  Donne's also seems odd, but he is mentioned as "vice Attwood", and the latter man's Service Record is quite clear.


==See Also==
==See Also==

Revision as of 18:35, 10 July 2019

H.M.S. G 5 (1915)
Pendant Number: I.A7 (1914)
G.5 (mid 1915)[1]
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[2]
Ordered: June, 1914[3]
Launched: 23 Nov, 1915[4]
Commissioned: Feb, 1916[5]
Sold: Oct, 1922[6]

H.M.S. G 5 was one of fourteen "G" class submarines completed in Britain during the Great War, intended primarily to hunt German U-boats.

Service

By late 1920, she was one of six "G" class submarines in reserve at Portsmouth as the "L" group under the collective command of Lieutenant Humphrey G. Veale, tender to Dolphin.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. pp. 82, 87.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 90.
  3. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 21. p. 23.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 90.
  5. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 21. p. 39.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 90.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 777.
  8. Byron Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/315. f. 169.
  9. Byron Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/315. f. 169.
  10. Attwood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/82/938. f. ?.
  11. Attwood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/82/938. f. ?.
  12. Donne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/88. 88.
  13. Donne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/88. 88.
  14. Stopford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/6. 357.
  15. Stopford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/6. 357.
  16. Veale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/110. f. 112.
  17. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 777.
  18. Veale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/110. f. 112.

Bibliography


"G" Class Submarine
G 1 G 2 G 3 G 4 G 5
G 6 G 7 G 8 G 9 G 10
  G 11 G 12 G 13 G 14  
<– "H" Class Submarines (UK) "J" Class –>