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'''H.M.S. ''Vimiera''''' was one of twenty-five destroyers of the [["V" Class Destroyer (1917)|"V" class]].
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'''H.M.S. ''Vimiera''''' was one of twenty-five [["V" Class Destroyer (1917)|"V" class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1917-18.
  
 
==Service==
 
==Service==
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In August, 1917, ''Vimiera'' was assigned to the {{UK-DF|13}}.{{SMNLAug17|p. 12}}
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In August, 1917, ''Vimiera'' was assigned to the {{UK-DF|13}}.{{SMNLAug17|p. 12}}  She commissioned on 5 September, 1917.{{NLJun20|p. 889}}
  
 
She was reduced to Reserve at Chatham on 7 October, 1920.{{NLJan21|p. 890}}
 
She was reduced to Reserve at Chatham on 7 October, 1920.{{NLJan21|p. 890}}
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''Vimiera'' was re-commissioned at Chatham with Reserve Crew on 15 August, 1924.  By March 1925, she was attached to the {{UK-DF|5}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLApr25|p. 283}}
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She re-commissioned at the Nore on 25 January, 1927 and was assigned to {{UK-DF|1}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLJul27|p. 282''a''}}
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The ship was re-commissioned at the Nore on 25 January, 1927.{{NLFeb29|p. 282''a''}}
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''Vimiera'' completed to full complement on 11 June, 1929 for work with the {{UK-DF|1}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLJul31|p. 282''a''}}
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Re-commissioned at Chatham on 29 December, 1931 for continued service with the {{UK-DF|1}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLJan33|p. 286}}
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''Vimiera'' was reduced to Maintenance Reserve at [[Rosyth]] on 8 May, 1933.{{NLJul37|p. 288}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Dashwood Fowler Moir|nick=Dashwood F. Moir|appt=1917<ref>[http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersM4.html UnitHistories.com]</ref>|note=&ndash; March, 1918}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Dashwood Fowler Moir|nick=Dashwood F. Moir|appt=4 September, 1917{{NLNov17|p. 398''z''}}<ref>Moir Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/232.|D7603484}} f. 236.</ref>|end=16 July, 1918<ref>Moir Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/232.|D7603484}} f. 236.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Arthur Pennington Legh|nick=John A. P. Legh|appt=17 January, 1919{{NLFeb19|p. 935}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Aubrey Thomas Tillard|nick=Aubrey T. Tillard|appt=16 July, 1918{{NLJan19|p. 935}}<ref>Tillard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 95.</ref>|end=17 January, 1919<ref>Tillard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 95.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Arthur Evans|nick=Arthur Evans|appt=27 January, 1919<ref>Evans Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/28.|D7604783}} f. 31.</ref>{{NLNov20|p. 890}}|end=2 January, 1922<ref>Evans Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/28.|D7604783}} f. 31.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Charles Maurice Blackman|nick=Charles M. Blackman|appt=2 January, 1922<ref>Blackman Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/336.|D7863939}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLJan23|p. 836}}|end=6 May, 1924<ref>Blackman Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/336.|D7863939}} f. ?.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin|nick=Valentine M. Wyndham-Quin|appt=6 May, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 284}}|end=July, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>|note=briefly went to {{UK-Vesper}} before returning on 15 August}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin|nick=Valentine M. Wyndham-Quin|appt=15 August, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>|end=29 May, 1926<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Valentine Searles-Wood|nick=Valentine Searles-Wood|appt=1 May, 1926{{NLJul27|p. 282''a''}}|end=c. November, 1928<ref>Searles-Wood Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/145/317.|D8123904}} f. 315.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Cecil Athos Newcome Chatwin|nick=Cecil A. N. Chatwin|appt=c. 5 November, 1928<ref>Chatwin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/120/125.|}} f. 125.</ref>|end=5 January, 1929<ref>Chatwin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/120/125.|}} f. 125.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Edmund Gerard Noel Rushbrooke|nick=Edmund G. N. Rushbrooke|appt=5 January, 1929{{NLFeb29|p. 282''a''}}|end=20 April, 1929}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Leslie Younghusband|nick=John L. Younghusband|appt=17 May, 1929<ref>Younghusband Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/76.|}} f. 76.</ref>|end=22 June, 1931<ref>Younghusband Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/76.|}} f. 76.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Donald Hugh Murray Leggatt|nick=Donald H. M. Leggatt|appt=12 June, 1931{{NLJan33|p. 286}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Roger Bertram Nettleton Hicks|nick=Roger B. N. Hicks|appt=15 January, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|5439}}|end=26 February, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|5439}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=Angus Alexander Mackenzie|nick=Angus A. Mackenzie|appt=26 February, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|5439}}|end=9 January, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|5439}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=ship lost under his command}}
 
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[[John Alan Pennington Legh]] was to be appointed on 17 January, 1919,{{NLFeb19|p. 935}} but this was cancelled according to his Service Record.
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
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Latest revision as of 21:50, 19 September 2022

H.M.S. Vimiera (1917)
Pendant Number: F.28 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Swan Hunter[2]
Launched: 22 Jun, 1917[3]
Completed: 19 Sep, 1917[4]
Mined: 9 Jan, 1942[5]

H.M.S. Vimiera was one of twenty-five "V" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.

Service

In August, 1917, Vimiera was assigned to the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla.[6] She commissioned on 5 September, 1917.[7]

She was reduced to Reserve at Chatham on 7 October, 1920.[8]

Vimiera was re-commissioned at Chatham with Reserve Crew on 15 August, 1924. By March 1925, she was attached to the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[9]

She re-commissioned at the Nore on 25 January, 1927 and was assigned to First Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[10]

The ship was re-commissioned at the Nore on 25 January, 1927.[11]

Vimiera completed to full complement on 11 June, 1929 for work with the First Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[12]

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 29 December, 1931 for continued service with the First Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[13]

Vimiera was reduced to Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth on 8 May, 1933.[14]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

John Alan Pennington Legh was to be appointed on 17 January, 1919,[44] but this was cancelled according to his Service Record.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
  4. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
  6. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 12.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (June, 1920). p. 889.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 890.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 283.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 282a.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 282a.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 282a.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 286.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 288.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 398z.
  16. ↑ Moir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/232. f. 236.
  17. ↑ Moir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/232. f. 236.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 935.
  19. ↑ Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  20. ↑ Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  21. ↑ Evans Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/28. f. 31.
  22. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1920). p. 890.
  23. ↑ Evans Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/28. f. 31.
  24. ↑ Blackman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/336. f. ?.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 836.
  26. ↑ Blackman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/336. f. ?.
  27. ↑ Wyndham-Quin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/322. f. 696.
  28. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 284.
  29. ↑ Wyndham-Quin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/322. f. 696.
  30. ↑ Wyndham-Quin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/322. f. 696.
  31. ↑ Wyndham-Quin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/322. f. 696.
  32. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 282a.
  33. ↑ Searles-Wood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/145/317. f. 315.
  34. ↑ Chatwin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/120/125. f. 125.
  35. ↑ Chatwin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/120/125. f. 125.
  36. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 282a.
  37. ↑ Younghusband Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/76. f. 76.
  38. ↑ Younghusband Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/76. f. 76.
  39. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 286.
  40. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  41. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  42. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  43. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  44. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 935.

Bibliography


"V" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Vancouver Vanessa Vanity Vanquisher Vanoc
Vega Velox Vehement Venturous Vendetta
Venetia Verdun Versatile Verulam Vesper
  Vidette Violent Vimiera Vittoria  
  Vivacious Vivien Vortigern Vectis  
Thornycroft Specials
  Viceroy Viscount  
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