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Re-commissioned on 15 September, 1924.{{NLApr25|p. 242}} | Re-commissioned on 15 September, 1924.{{NLApr25|p. 242}} | ||
The ship was reduced to Reserve on 21 December, 1925.{{NLJul27|p. 243}} She was re-commissioned with special complement on 16 August, 1927.{{NLJan33|p. 243}} | |||
==Captains== | ==Captains== | ||
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Nicholas Edward Archdale|nick=Nicholas E. Archdale|appt=28 February, 1919{{NLDec19|p. 781}}<ref>Archdale Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>|end=11 January, 1921<ref>Archdale Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Nicholas Edward Archdale|nick=Nicholas E. Archdale|appt=28 February, 1919{{NLDec19|p. 781}}<ref>Archdale Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>|end=11 January, 1921<ref>Archdale Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Gilbert George Pearse Hewett|nick=Gilbert G. P. Hewett|appt=12 January, 1921{{NLJan21|p. 782}}|end=17 August, 1922}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Gilbert George Pearse Hewett|nick=Gilbert G. P. Hewett|appt=12 January, 1921{{NLJan21|p. 782}}|end=17 August, 1922}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alexander Riall Wadham Woods|nick=Alexander R. W. Woods|appt=17 August, 1922{{NLJul24|p. 242}}|end=}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alexander Riall Wadham Woods|nick=Alexander R. W. Woods|appt=17 August, 1922<ref>Woods Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45/204.|}} f. 208.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 242}}|end=22 August, 1924<ref>Woods Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45/204.|}} f. 208.</ref>}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Macaulay Lecky|nick=Arthur M. Lecky|appt=22 August, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 242}}<ref>Lecky Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46/54.|D7603561}} f. 54.</ref>|end=12 April, 1926<ref>Lecky Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46/54.|D7603561}} f. 54.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Macaulay Lecky|nick=Arthur M. Lecky|appt=22 August, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 242}}<ref>Lecky Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46/54.|D7603561}} f. 54.</ref>|end=12 April, 1926<ref>Lecky Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46/54.|D7603561}} f. 54.</ref>}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis Walter Despard Twigg|nick=Francis W. D. Twigg|appt=20 December, 1925<ref>Twigg Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 572.</ref>|end=11 June, 1926<ref>Twigg Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 572.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis Walter Despard Twigg|nick=Francis W. D. Twigg|appt=20 December, 1925<ref>Twigg Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 572.</ref>|end=11 June, 1926<ref>Twigg Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 572.</ref>}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Trevenen Wilson|nick=Charles T. Wilson|appt=11 June, 1926<ref>Wilson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/52.|}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLJul27|p. 243}}|end=15 August, 1927<ref>Wilson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/52.|}} f. ?.</ref>}} | |||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe|nick=Lewis G. E. Crabbe|appt=16 August, 1927<ref>Crabbe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46/168.|D7603675}} f. 169.</ref>|end=15 October, 1929<ref>Crabbe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46/168.|D7603675}} f. 169.</ref>|note=and as Assistant Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Rosyth and King's Harbour Master, Rosyth}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe|nick=Lewis G. E. Crabbe|appt=16 August, 1927<ref>Crabbe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46/168.|D7603675}} f. 169.</ref>|end=15 October, 1929<ref>Crabbe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46/168.|D7603675}} f. 169.</ref>|note=and as Assistant Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Rosyth and King's Harbour Master, Rosyth}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Jermyn Landon|nick=Arthur J. Landon|appt=15 October, 1929<ref>Landon Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|end=17 April, 1931<ref>Landon Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|ass=15 October, 1929<ref>Landon Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|note=and as Assistant Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Rosyth and King's Harbour Master, Rosyth}} | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Jermyn Landon|nick=Arthur J. Landon|appt=15 October, 1929<ref>Landon Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|end=17 April, 1931<ref>Landon Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|ass=15 October, 1929<ref>Landon Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|note=and as Assistant Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Rosyth and King's Harbour Master, Rosyth}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=1 May, 1931{{NLJul31|p. 243}}<ref>Boxer Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|end=1 August, 1933<ref>Boxer Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master, [[Rosyth]]}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=1 May, 1931{{NLJul31|p. 243}}<ref>Boxer Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|end=1 August, 1933<ref>Boxer Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master, [[Rosyth]]}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Albert John Robertson|nick=Albert J. Robertson|appt=1 August, 1933|end=1 August, 1935|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master}} | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Albert John Robertson|nick=Albert J. Robertson|appt=1 August, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 244}}|end=1 August, 1935|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Montague George Bentinck Legge|nick=Montague G. B. Legge|appt=1 August, 1935<ref>Legge Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/170.|D7604074}} f. 574.</ref>|end=4 August, 1936<ref>Legge Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/170.|D7604074}} f. 574.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master}} | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Montague George Bentinck Legge|nick=Montague G. B. Legge|appt=1 August, 1935<ref>Legge Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/170.|D7604074}} f. 574.</ref>|end=4 August, 1936<ref>Legge Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48/170.|D7604074}} f. 574.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Heathcote Gordon Walker|nick=Francis H. G. Walker|appt=4 August, 1936<ref>Walker Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/73.}} f. 79.</ref>|end=January, 1937<ref>Walker Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/73.}} f. 79.</ref>|note=died in command}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Heathcote Gordon Walker|nick=Francis H. G. Walker|appt=4 August, 1936<ref>Walker Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/73.}} f. 79.</ref>|end=January, 1937<ref>Walker Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/73.}} f. 79.</ref>|note=died in command}} |
Latest revision as of 17:16, 28 December 2021
H.M.S. Greenwich (1915) | |
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Pendant Number: | CA (Jan, 1916) C6 (Jan 1918)[1] |
Builder: | Dobson[2] |
Launched: | 5 Jul, 1915[3] |
Commissioned: | 10 Jun, 1916[4] |
Sold: | 11 Jul, 1946[5] |
H.M.S. Greenwich was purchased while under construction and completed by Swan Hunter as a destroyer depot ship.
Service
Upon commissioning in mid-1916, Greenwich went to Scapa Flow to serve the Fourteenth Destroyer Flotilla. She remained there through the end of the war, maintaining "M" class and later model destroyers.[6]
Re-commissioned on 15 September, 1924.[7]
The ship was reduced to Reserve on 21 December, 1925.[8] She was re-commissioned with special complement on 16 August, 1927.[9]
Captains
Dates of appointment given.
- Captain Harry R. Godfrey, 15 February, 1916[10][11] – March, 1917[12]
- Lieutenant-Commander Clement L. Long, 22 March, 1917 – 30 April, 1917
- Captain Rafe G. Rowley-Conwy, 30 April, 1917[13][14] – November, 1917[15]
- Captain Kerrison Kiddle, 5 December, 1917[16][17] – 1 March, 1919[18]
- Captain Nicholas E. Archdale, 28 February, 1919[19][20] – 11 January, 1921[21]
- Captain Gilbert G. P. Hewett, 12 January, 1921[22] – 17 August, 1922
- Captain Alexander R. W. Woods, 17 August, 1922[23][24] – 22 August, 1924[25]
- Captain Arthur M. Lecky, 22 August, 1924[26][27] – 12 April, 1926[28]
- Commander Francis W. D. Twigg, 20 December, 1925[29] – 11 June, 1926[30]
- Commander Charles T. Wilson, 11 June, 1926[31][32] – 15 August, 1927[33]
- Captain Lewis G. E. Crabbe, 16 August, 1927[34] – 15 October, 1929[35] (and as Assistant Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Rosyth and King's Harbour Master, Rosyth)
- Captain Arthur J. Landon, 15 October, 1929[36] – 17 April, 1931[37] (and as Assistant Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Rosyth and King's Harbour Master, Rosyth)
- Captain Henry P. Boxer, 1 May, 1931[38][39] – 1 August, 1933[40] (and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master, Rosyth)
- Captain Albert J. Robertson, 1 August, 1933[41] – 1 August, 1935 (and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master)
- Captain Montague G. B. Legge, 1 August, 1935[42] – 4 August, 1936[43] (and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master)
- Captain Francis H. G. Walker, 4 August, 1936[44] – January, 1937[45] (died in command)
- Captain Henry P. Boxer, 28 January, 1937[46] – 1 June, 1938[47] (and as King's Harbour Master, Rosyth)
Lecky and Twigg seem to overlap.
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 242.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 243.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 243.
- ↑ Godfrey Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/235. f. 235.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 394s.
- ↑ Godfrey Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/235. f. 235.
- ↑ Rowley-Conwy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/83. ff. 83, 232.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 394c.
- ↑ Rowley-Conwy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/83. ff. 83, 232.
- ↑ Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 804.
- ↑ Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 781.
- ↑ Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
- ↑ Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
- ↑ Woods Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/204. f. 208.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 242.
- ↑ Woods Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/204. f. 208.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 242.
- ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
- ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
- ↑ Twigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 572.
- ↑ Twigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 572.
- ↑ Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/52. f. ?.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 243.
- ↑ Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/52. f. ?.
- ↑ Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
- ↑ Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
- ↑ Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
- ↑ Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 243.
- ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
- ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 244.
- ↑ Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
- ↑ Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
- ↑ Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
- ↑ Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
- ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
- ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).