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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Garth''''' was one of one hundred and fourteen [[Hunt Class Minesweeper (1916)|''Hunt'' Class minesweepers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
 
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Garth''''' was one of one hundred and fourteen [[Hunt Class Minesweeper (1916)|''Hunt'' Class minesweepers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
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There was [[H.M.S. Garth (1940)|an escort destroyer of the same name]] launched in 1940.
  
 
==Service==
 
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==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Rudolph Lancelot Wikner|nick=Rudolph L. Wikner|appt=4 April, 1918<ref>Wikner Service Record {{TNA|ADM 240/37/536.|}} f. 272.</ref>{{NLDec18|p. 799}}|end=18 February, 1919<ref>Wikner Service Record {{TNA|ADM 240/37/536.|}} f. 272.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Allen Shuter|nick=John A. Shuter|appt=18 February, 1919{{NLMar19|p. 799}}|end=May, 1919}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank=Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command|name=Frank Ernest Woodward|nick=Frank E. Woodward|appt=10 June, 1919|end=6 September, 1919}}
 
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Someone named "G. E. Blackburn" was reportedly appointed in command on 24 May 1919, but TNA and ''Navy Lists'' have no idea who that might be.{{NavAppts|27 May 1919, p. 18}}
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Latest revision as of 12:45, 13 April 2022

H.M.S. Garth (1917)
Admiralty Pendant Number: 491[1]
Pendant Number: T.C6 (Jun 1918)[2]
Builder: Dunlop Bremner & Company[3]
Ordered: mid 1916[4]
Launched: 9 May, 1917[5]
Commissioned: 1917[6]
Sold: early 1923[7]

H.M.S. Garth was one of one hundred and fourteen Hunt Class minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

There was an escort destroyer of the same name launched in 1940.

Service

Garth paid off at Grimsby on 9 September, 1919.[8]

In January, 1921, she was at Harwich, one of forty-one paid off minesweepers there.[9]

Captains

Someone named "G. E. Blackburn" was reportedly appointed in command on 24 May 1919, but TNA and Navy Lists have no idea who that might be.[14]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 112.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. "C" denotes Code pendant here. p. 112.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 112.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
  7. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 779.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 707a.
  10. ↑ Wikner Service Record The National Archives. ADM 240/37/536. f. 272.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 799.
  12. ↑ Wikner Service Record The National Archives. ADM 240/37/536. f. 272.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 799.
  14. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 27 May 1919, p. 18.

Bibliography


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Belvoir Bicester Blackmorevale Cotswold Cottesmore
Cattistock Croome Dartmoor Garth Hambledon
Heythrop Holderness Meynell Muskerry Oakley
Pytchley Quorn Southdown Tedworth Zetland
Admiralty Design
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Collinson Appledore Leamington Badminton Bagshot
Barnstaple Swindon Banchory Bloxham Bradfield
Burslem Goole Blackburn Bootle Caerleon
Camberley Carstairs Caterham Battle Fermoy
Forfar Bury Cheam Gretna Harrow
Havant Huntley Instow Gaddesden Gainsborough
Northolt Clonmel Elgin Sherborne Tiverton
Tonbridge Tralee Tring Truro Kellett
Verwood Wem Wexford Craigie Derby
Dorking Dundalk Dunoon Fairfield Forres
Cupar Sutton Fareham Faversham Ford
Rugby Irvine Kendal Kinross Lydd
Longford Marlow Mistley Monaghan Mallaig
Malvern Marazion Munlochy Nailsea Newark
Repton Weybourne Pangbourne Penarth Petersfield
Pinner Pontypool Prestatyn Radley Ross
Salford Saltash Saltburn Selkirk Shrewsbury
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