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==Service==
==Service==
Commissioned at Chatham on 1 October, 1920.{{NLJul31|p. 297}}
In mid-1925, ''Diomede'' was part of the {{UK-CS|5}} on the [[China Station]].{{NLApr25|p. 233}}
In mid-1925, ''Diomede'' was part of the {{UK-CS|5}} on the [[China Station]].{{NLApr25|p. 233}}


Re-commissioned in Portsmouth on 21 October 1925 for service with the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.{{NLFeb26|p. 297}}
Re-commissioned in Portsmouth on 21 October 1925 for service with the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.{{NLFeb26|p. 297}}


Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 19 July 1928.{{NLFeb26|p. 296}}
Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 19 July 1928.{{NLFeb29|p. 296}}
 
Re-commissioned at Chatham on 16 October, 1930 for service with the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.{{NLJul31|p. 297}}
 
She completed to full complement at Auckland on 3 August, 1933.{{NLJul34|p. 300}}
 
Re-commissioned at Chatham on 3 February, 1937 for service with the Reserve Fleet at The Nore.{{NLJul37|p. 231}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Geoffrey Hopwood|nick=Geoffrey Hopwood|appt=17 April, 1922{{NLJul24|p. 233}}|end=March, 1925|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Geoffrey Hopwood|nick=Geoffrey Hopwood|appt=17 April, 1922{{NLJul24|p. 233}}|end=March, 1925|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis|nick=Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis|appt=21 January, 1925<ref>Kennedy-Purvis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604157}} f. 31.</ref>{{NLApr25|p. 233}}|end=July, 1925<ref>Kennedy-Purvis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604157}} f. 31.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis|nick=Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis|appt=21 January, 1925<ref>Kennedy-Purvis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604157}} f. 31.</ref>{{NLApr25|p. 233}}|end=July, 1925<ref>Kennedy-Purvis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604157}} f. 31.</ref>|note=swapped out to {{UK-Concord}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Alexander Riall Wadham Woods|nick=Alexander R. W. Woods|appt=July 1925<ref>Woods Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/204.|}} f. 208.</ref>|end=1 October, 1925<ref>Woods Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/204.|}} f. 208.</ref>|note=swapped in from {{UK-Concord}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=James Stuart Maclaren Ritchie|nick=James S. Macl. Ritchie|appt=1 October, 1925{{NLFeb26|p. 297}}|end=January, 1927{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=James Stuart Maclaren Ritchie|nick=James S. Macl. Ritchie|appt=1 October, 1925{{NLFeb26|p. 297}}|end=January, 1927{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=George Thomas Carlisle Parker Swabey|nick=George T. C. P. Swabey|appt=2 January, 1927<ref>Swabey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/6.|D7603513}} f. 6.</ref>|end=23 October, 1927<ref>Swabey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/6.|D7603513}} f. 6.</ref>|note=and as Commodore in Command of the [[New Zealand Station]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=George Thomas Carlisle Parker Swabey|nick=George T. C. P. Swabey|appt=2 January, 1927<ref>Swabey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/6.|D7603513}} f. 6.</ref>|end=23 October, 1927<ref>Swabey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/6.|D7603513}} f. 6.</ref>|note=and as Commodore in Command of the [[New Zealand Station]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Malcolm Lennon Goldsmith|nick=Malcolm L. Goldsmith|appt=27 August, 1930<ref>Goldsmith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|D7603495}} f. 247.</ref>|end=14 October, 1930<ref>Goldsmith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|D7603495}} f. 247.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Malcolm Lennon Goldsmith|nick=Malcolm L. Goldsmith|appt=27 August, 1930<ref>Goldsmith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|D7603495}} f. 247.</ref>|end=14 October, 1930<ref>Goldsmith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|D7603495}} f. 247.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Martin John Coucher de Meric|nick=Martin J. C. de Meric|appt=October, 1930{{MackieRNW}}|end=c. April, 1931<ref>de Meric Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/284.|D7605039}} f. 299.</ref>|note=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Martin John Coucher de Meric|nick=Martin J. C. de Meric|appt=October, 1930{{MackieRNW}}|end=c. April, 1931<ref>de Meric Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/284.|D7605039}} f. 299.</ref>|note=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Fischer Burges Watson|nick=Fischer B. Watson|appt=April, 1932{{MackieRNW}}|end=August, 1933{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Fischer Burges Watson|nick=Fischer B. Watson|appt=April, 1932{{MackieRNW}}|end=August, 1933{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Cosmo Moray Graham|nick=Cosmo M. Graham|appt=August, 1933{{MackieRNW}}|end=1936{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Cosmo Moray Graham|nick=Cosmo M. Graham|appt=3 August, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 300}}|end=1936{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Wentworth Farquhar|nick=John W. Farquhar|appt=31 March, 1936|end=21 September, 1936}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Wentworth Farquhar|nick=John W. Farquhar|appt=31 March, 1936|end=21 September, 1936}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Robert Halfhide|nick=Arthur R. Halfhide|appt=February, 1937{{MackieRNW}}|end=1937{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Geoffrey Cecil Fryer|nick=Geoffrey C. Fryer|appt=21 September, 1936<ref>Fryer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/29.|}} f. 29.</ref>|end=17 December, 1936<ref>Fryer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/29.|}} f. 29.</ref>|note=vice Farquhar, and upon ship reducing}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Bernard Cornish Dicken|nick=Edward B. C. Dicken|appt=July, 1939{{MackieRNW}}|end=February, 1940{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alfred Bowman|nick=Alfred Bowman|appt=17 December, 1936{{ToL|Command of the Diomeded|17 Dec. 1936, p. 29}}|end=early 1937}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Robert Halfhide|nick=Arthur R. Halfhide|appt=3 February, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 231}}|end=29 July, 1937<ref>Halfhide Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/37.|}} f. 37.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Geoffrey Cecil Fryer|nick=Geoffrey C. Fryer|appt=14 July, 1937<ref>Fryer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/29.|}} f. 29.</ref>|end=12 August, 1937<ref>Fryer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/29.|}} f. 29.</ref>|note=vice "Allen" or Halfhide}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Reginald Francis Morice|nick=Reginald F. Morice|appt=12 August, 1937<ref>Morice Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/56/145.|}} f. 147.</ref>|end=15 September, 1937<ref>Morice Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/56/145.|}} f. 147.</ref>{{ToL|Royal Navy|15 Sept. 1937, p. 6}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Harry Philip Currey|nick=Harry P. Currey|appt=15 September, 1937{{ToL|Royal Navy|15 Sept. 1937, p. 6}}|end=22 December, 1937<ref>Wood Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/186.}} f. 188.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Percy Frank Pilkington Wood|nick=Percy F. P. Wood|appt=22 December, 1937<ref>Wood Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/186.}} f. 188.</ref>|end=24 January, 1938<ref>Wood Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/186.}} f. 188.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Geoffrey Cecil Fryer|nick=Geoffrey C. Fryer|appt=24 January, 1938<ref>Fryer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/29.|}} f. 29.</ref>|end=2 March, 1938<ref>Fryer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/29.|}} f. 29.</ref>|note=vice "Wood"}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Wilfred Edmund Warner|nick=Wilfred E. Warner|appt=1 March, 1938<ref>Warner Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/121/137.|}} f. 137.</ref>|end=c. 1938}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lancelot Vivian Donne|nick=Lancelot V. Donne|appt=mid 1938<ref>Donne Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/88.|}} f. 88.</ref>|end=4 August, 1939<ref>Donne Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/88.|}} f. 88.</ref>|note=vice Warner}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Bernard Cornish Dicken|nick=Edward B. C. Dicken|appt=21 July, 1939<ref>Dicken Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/92/75.|D8116196}} f. ?.</ref>|end=30 January, 1940<ref>Dicken Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/92/75.|D8116196}} f. ?.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Wentworth Farquhar|nick=John W. Farquhar|appt=31 January, 1940|end=25 February, 1940}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Wentworth Farquhar|nick=John W. Farquhar|appt=31 January, 1940|end=25 February, 1940}}
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Cyril George Bucknill Coltart|nick=Cyril G. B. Coltart|appt=26 February, 1940|end=June, 1940|note=removed sick at Bermuda}}
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Cyril George Bucknill Coltart|nick=Cyril G. B. Coltart|appt=26 February, 1940|end=June, 1940|note=removed sick at Bermuda}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Wentworth Farquhar|nick=John W. Farquhar|appt=27 June, 1940|end=20 October, 1940|note="vice Wemyss"}}
{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CommRN}}|name=David Edward Gillespie Wemyss|nick=David E. G. Wemyss|appt=20 May, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}|end=21 June, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{Com2RN}}|name=Cyril Eustace Douglas-Pennant|nick=Cyril E. Douglas-Pennant|appt=30 June, 1940|end=c. 30 June, 1940|note=and as Commodore, West Coast South America, "vice Wemyss"}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Wentworth Farquhar|nick=John W. Farquhar|appt=21 June, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}|end=30 October, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=David Orr-Ewing|nick=David Orr-Ewing|appt=June, 1941{{MackieRNW}}|end=August, 1942{{MackieRNW}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CommRN}}|name=David Edward Gillespie Wemyss|nick=David E. G. Wemyss|appt=30 October, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}|end=13 November, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Wentworth Farquhar|nick=John W. Farquhar|appt=13 November, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}|end=16 June, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=David Orr-Ewing|nick=David Orr-Ewing|appt=16 June, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}|end=11 August, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} (retired)|name=John Walter Hoskyns|nick=John W. Hoskyns|appt=11 August, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}|end=19 August, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptCA}}|name=Harold Taylor Wood Grant|nick=Harold T. W. Grant|appt=19 August, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}|end=mid 1943{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} (retired)|name=John Walter Hoskyns|nick=John W. Hoskyns|appt=mid 1943{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}|end=9 August, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Robert Alastair Ewing|nick=Robert A. Ewing|appt=9 August, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}|end=18 February, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Michael Hodges|nick=John M. Hodges|appt=18 February, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|1205}}|end=}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
{{Com2RN}} [[Cyril Eustace Douglas-Pennant|Cyril E. Douglas-Pennant]] may have held this post in late June, 1940 and as Commodore, West Coast South America, "vice Wemyss".


==Fire Control==
==Fire Control==

Latest revision as of 17:44, 22 July 2022

H.M.S. Diomede (1919)
Pendant Number: 92 (Apr 1922)[1]
Builder: Vickers[2]
Laid down: 3 Jun, 1918[3]
Launched: 29 Apr, 1919[4]
Commissioned: 2 Oct, 1922[5]
Sold: Apr, 1946[6]
Fate: Broken up

Service

Commissioned at Chatham on 1 October, 1920.[7]

In mid-1925, Diomede was part of the Fifth Cruiser Squadron on the China Station.[8]

Re-commissioned in Portsmouth on 21 October 1925 for service with the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.[9]

Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 19 July 1928.[10]

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 16 October, 1930 for service with the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.[11]

She completed to full complement at Auckland on 3 August, 1933.[12]

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 3 February, 1937 for service with the Reserve Fleet at The Nore.[13]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Commodore, Second Class Cyril E. Douglas-Pennant may have held this post in late June, 1940 and as Commodore, West Coast South America, "vice Wemyss".

Fire Control

Diomede was probably fitted with a director on launch or very soon thereafter.[74]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 50.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 749.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 62.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 297.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 233.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 297.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 296.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 297.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 300.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 231.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 233.
  15. ↑ Kennedy-Purvis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 31.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 233.
  17. ↑ Kennedy-Purvis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 31.
  18. ↑ Woods Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/204. f. 208.
  19. ↑ Woods Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/204. f. 208.
  20. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 297.
  21. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  22. ↑ Swabey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/6. f. 6.
  23. ↑ Swabey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/6. f. 6.
  24. ↑ Wells Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/181., f. 97.
  25. ↑ Wells Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/181., f. 97.
  26. ↑ Goldsmith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 247.
  27. ↑ Goldsmith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 247.
  28. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  29. ↑ de Meric Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/284. f. 299.
  30. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  31. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  32. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 300.
  33. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  34. ↑ Fryer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/29. f. 29.
  35. ↑ Fryer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/29. f. 29.
  36. ↑ "Command of the Diomeded." The Times (London, England), 17 Dec. 1936, p. 29.
  37. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 231.
  38. ↑ Halfhide Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/37. f. 37.
  39. ↑ Fryer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/29. f. 29.
  40. ↑ Fryer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/29. f. 29.
  41. ↑ Morice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/145. f. 147.
  42. ↑ Morice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/145. f. 147.
  43. ↑ "Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), 15 Sept. 1937, p. 6.
  44. ↑ "Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), 15 Sept. 1937, p. 6.
  45. ↑ Wood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/186. f. 188.
  46. ↑ Wood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/186. f. 188.
  47. ↑ Wood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/186. f. 188.
  48. ↑ Fryer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/29. f. 29.
  49. ↑ Fryer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/29. f. 29.
  50. ↑ Warner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/121/137. f. 137.
  51. ↑ Donne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/88. f. 88.
  52. ↑ Donne Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/88. f. 88.
  53. ↑ Dicken Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/92/75. f. ?.
  54. ↑ Dicken Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/92/75. f. ?.
  55. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  56. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  57. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  58. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  59. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  60. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  61. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  62. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  63. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  64. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  65. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  66. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  67. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  68. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  69. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  70. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  71. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  72. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  73. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  74. ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1918). Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. C.B. 1456. Copy No. 10 at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
  • Admiralty, Technical History Section (1919). The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships. Vol. 3, Part 23. C.B. 1515 (23) now O.U. 6171/14. At The National Archives. ADM 275/19.


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