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==In Command== | ==In Command== | ||
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Stephen Walter de Winton|nick=Francis S. W. de Winton|appt=31 May, 1939|end=1 December, 1939}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Stephen Walter de Winton|nick=Francis S. W. de Winton|appt=31 May, 1939<ref>De Winton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/118/105.|}} f. 105.</ref>|end=1 December, 1939<ref>De Winton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/118/105.|}} f. 105.</ref>}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alfred Jerome Lucian Phillips|nick=Alfred J. L. Phillips|appt=30 August, 1939|end=29 January, 1940}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alfred Jerome Lucian Phillips|nick=Alfred J. L. Phillips|appt=30 August, 1939|end=29 January, 1940}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Harold Thomas Armstrong|nick=Harold T. Armstrong|appt=9 October, 1941<ref>Armstrong Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/94/20.|}} f. 20.</ref>|end=3 December, 1942<ref>Armstrong Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/94/20.|}} f. 20.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Harold Thomas Armstrong|nick=Harold T. Armstrong|appt=9 October, 1941<ref>Armstrong Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/94/20.|}} f. 20.</ref>|end=3 December, 1942<ref>Armstrong Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/94/20.|}} f. 20.</ref>}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert St. Vincent Sherbrooke|nick=Robert St. V. Sherbrooke|appt=28 November, 1942<ref>Sherbrooke Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/124/55.|}} f. 55.</ref>|end=}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert St. Vincent Sherbrooke|nick=Robert St. V. Sherbrooke|appt=28 November, 1942<ref>Sherbrooke Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/124/55.|}} f. 55.</ref>|end=}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=James Abernethy McCoy|nick=James A. McCoy|appt=12 March, 1943<ref>McCoy Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/123/145.|}} f. 145.</ref>|end=25 September, 1944<ref>McCoy Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/123/145.|}} f. 145.</ref>}} | |||
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==Other Personnel== | |||
===Gunnery Duties=== | |||
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===Torpedo Duties=== | |||
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==History== | ==History== |
Latest revision as of 15:53, 30 April 2023
The Seventeenth Destroyer Flotilla was a formation of destroyers of the Royal Navy created sometime after the Great War.
In Command
- Captain Francis S. W. de Winton, 31 May, 1939[1] – 1 December, 1939[2]
- Captain Alfred J. L. Phillips, 30 August, 1939 – 29 January, 1940
- Captain Harold T. Armstrong, 9 October, 1941[3] – 3 December, 1942[4]
- Captain Robert St. V. Sherbrooke, 28 November, 1942[5]
- Captain James A. McCoy, 12 March, 1943[6] – 25 September, 1944[7]
Other Personnel
Gunnery Duties
History
Footnotes
- ↑ De Winton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/105. f. 105.
- ↑ De Winton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/105. f. 105.
- ↑ Armstrong Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/94/20. f. 20.
- ↑ Armstrong Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/94/20. f. 20.
- ↑ Sherbrooke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/55. f. 55.
- ↑ McCoy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/123/145. f. 145.
- ↑ McCoy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/123/145. f. 145.
Bibliography
See Also
British Destroyer Flotillas | |||
First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth | Tenth | |||
Eleventh | Twelfth | Thirteenth | Fourteenth | Fifteenth | Sixteenth | Seventeenth | Eighteenth | Nineteenth | |||
Twentieth | Twenty-first | |||
Local Defence Flotillas | |||
Clyde | Devonport | Devonport & Falmouth | Falmouth | Firth of Forth | Gibraltar | |||
Liverpool | Mersey | Newhaven | Nore | North Channel | Milford & Pembroke | Pembroke | |||
Portland | Portsmouth | Queenstown |