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'''H.M.S. ''Greenwich''''' was purchased while under construction and completed by [[Swan Hunter]] as a depot ship.
'''H.M.S. ''Greenwich''''' was purchased while under construction and completed by [[Swan Hunter]] as a destroyer depot ship.


==Service==
==Service==
''Greenwich'' served the {{UK-DF|14}} at Scapa Flow.{{DittColl|p. 295}}
Upon commissioning in mid-1916, ''Greenwich'' went to Scapa Flow to serve the {{UK-DF|14}}.  She remained there through the end of the war, maintaining [["M" Class Destroyer (1914)|"M" class]] and later model destroyers.{{DittColl|p. 295}}
 
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==
Dates of appointment given.
Dates of appointment given.
* {{CaptRN}} [[Kerrison Kiddle]], 5 December, 1917.{{NLFeb19|p. 804}}
 
* {{CaptRN}} [[Nicholas Edward Archdale|Nicholas E. Archdale]], 28 February, 1919.{{NLDec19|p. 781}}
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* {{CaptRN}} [[Gilbert George Pearse Hewett|Gilbert G. P. Hewett]], 12 January, 1921.{{NLJan21|p. 782}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Harry Rowlandson Godfrey|nick=Harry R. Godfrey|appt=15 February, 1916<ref>Godfrey Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/44/235.|D7576608}} f. 235.</ref>{{NLDec16|p. 394''s''}}|end=March, 1917<ref>Godfrey Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/44/235.|D7576608}} f. 235.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Clement Loftus Long|nick=Clement L. Long|appt=22 March, 1917|end=30 April, 1917}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Rafe Grenville Rowley-Conwy|nick=Rafe G. Rowley-Conwy|appt=30 April, 1917<ref>Rowley-Conwy Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/83.|D7576589}} ff. 83, 232.</ref>{{NLNov17|p. 394''c''}}|end=November, 1917<ref>Rowley-Conwy Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/83.|D7576589}} ff. 83, 232.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Kerrison Kiddle|nick=Kerrison Kiddle|appt=5 December, 1917<ref>Kiddle Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/250.|D7576610}} f. 250.</ref>{{NLFeb19|p. 804}}|end=1 March, 1919<ref>Kiddle Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/250.|D7576610}} f. 250.</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=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={{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=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=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={{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=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=28 January, 1937<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|end=1 June, 1938<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|note=and as King's Harbour Master, [[Rosyth]]}}
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Lecky and Twigg seem to overlap.


==See Also==
==See Also==
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Latest revision as of 17:16, 28 December 2021

H.M.S. Greenwich (1915)
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.

Lecky and Twigg seem to overlap.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  3. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 242.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 243.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 243.
  10. ↑ Godfrey Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/235. f. 235.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 394s.
  12. ↑ Godfrey Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/235. f. 235.
  13. ↑ Rowley-Conwy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/83. ff. 83, 232.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 394c.
  15. ↑ Rowley-Conwy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/83. ff. 83, 232.
  16. ↑ Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 804.
  18. ↑ Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 781.
  20. ↑ Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  21. ↑ Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  22. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
  23. ↑ Woods Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/204. f. 208.
  24. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 242.
  25. ↑ Woods Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/204. f. 208.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 242.
  27. ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
  28. ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
  29. ↑ Twigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 572.
  30. ↑ Twigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 572.
  31. ↑ Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/52. f. ?.
  32. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 243.
  33. ↑ Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/52. f. ?.
  34. ↑ Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
  35. ↑ Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
  36. ↑ Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
  37. ↑ Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
  38. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 243.
  39. ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  40. ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  41. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 244.
  42. ↑ Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
  43. ↑ Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
  44. ↑ Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
  45. ↑ Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
  46. ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  47. ↑ 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).


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