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''Aberdare'' paid off at Malta 26 November, 1919.{{NLJul24|p. 214}}
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Paid off to a C. & M. Party (likely at Malta) and completed to reserve complement on 22 November, 1924.{{NLJul27|p. 214}}
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''Aberdare'' was re-commissioned with Reserve Complement at Malta on 26 September, 1929.{{NLOct35|p. 213}}
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She was paid off into Reserve at [[Singapore]] on 4 April, 1937.{{NLJul37|p. 213}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=John Marshall Booth|nick=John M. Booth|appt=17 September, 1918{{NLMar19|p. 722}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=John Marshall Booth|nick=John M. Booth|appt=17 September, 1918<ref>Booth Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/41/214.|}}  f. 113.</ref>{{NLJun19|p. 722}}|end=15 August, 1919<ref>Booth Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/41/214.|}}  f. 113.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNR}}|name=William Brewer Atkins Angus|nick=William B. A. Angus|appt=2 July, 1919{{NLSep19|p. 721}}|end=17 February, 1920<ref>Angus Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 240/38/313.|}}  f. 162.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} (retired)|name=Alfred William Sprott|nick=Alfred W. Sprott|appt=24 September, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|6514}}|end=13 March, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|6514}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Frank Measham Berncastle|nick=Frank M. Berncastle|appt=October, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|6514}}|end=13 March, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|6514}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} (emergency)|name=George Nelson|nick=George Nelson|appt=13 March, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|6514}}|end=22 August, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|6514}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRNR}}|name=Lionel Esworthy Foster|nick=Lionel E. Foster|appt=22 August, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|6514}}|end=3 December, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|6514}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Temporary Acting {{LCommRNR}}|name=William Harold Brittain|nick=William H. Brittain|appt=3 December, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|6514}}|end=4 October, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|6514}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Commander, R.N.Z.N.V.R.|name=Ralph Newman|nick=Ralph Newman|appt=4 October, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|6514}}|end=late 1944{{UBAllyWarship|6514}}}}
 
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Latest revision as of 17:32, 14 April 2022

H.M.S. Aberdare (1918)
Admiralty Pendant Number: 3450[1]
Pendant Number: T.0# (Nov 1919)[2]
Builder: Ailsa Shipbuilding Company[3]
Ordered: mid 1917[4]
Launched: 29 Apr, 1918[5]
Sold: 13 Mar, 1947[6]

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

Service

Aberdare paid off at Malta 26 November, 1919.[7]

Paid off to a C. & M. Party (likely at Malta) and completed to reserve complement on 22 November, 1924.[8]

Aberdare was re-commissioned with Reserve Complement at Malta on 26 September, 1929.[9]

She was paid off into Reserve at Singapore on 4 April, 1937.[10]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 112.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. "#" denotes Numeral 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. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 112.
  7. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 214.
  8. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 214.
  9. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 213.
  10. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 213.
  11. Booth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/41/214. f. 113.
  12. The Navy List. (June, 1919). p. 722.
  13. Booth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/41/214. f. 113.
  14. The Navy List. (September, 1919). p. 721.
  15. Angus Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/38/313. f. 162.
  16. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  17. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  18. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  19. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  20. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  21. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  22. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  23. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  24. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  25. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  26. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  27. Uboat.net page on the ship.

Bibliography


Hunt Class Minesweeper
Ailsa Design
Belvoir Bicester Blackmorevale Cotswold Cottesmore
Cattistock Croome Dartmoor Garth Hambledon
Heythrop Holderness Meynell Muskerry Oakley
Pytchley Quorn Southdown Tedworth Zetland
Admiralty Design
Aberdare Abingdon Albury Alresford Beaufort
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
Sligo Widnes Yeovil Stafford Stoke
<– Ascot Class Minesweepers (UK)