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''Tasmania'' was one of 67 destroyers of the [["S" Class Destroyer (1918)|S]] class.
'''H.M.S. ''Tasmania''''' was one of sixty-seven [["S" Class Destroyer (1918)|"S" class destroyers]] built for the [[Royal Navy]] as the [[Great War]] was ending.  She was completed just after the war.
 
==Service==
The destroyer was re-commissioned as '''H.M.A.S. ''Tasmania''''' for service in the [[Royal Australian Navy]] on 27 January 1920.
 
She was re-commissioned at Sydney on 20 September, 1922.{{NLApr25|p. 295}}
 
In mid-1931, she was in reserve at Sydney,{{NLJul31|p. 295}} where she commissioned on 31 July.{{NLJan33|p. 298}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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* Lieutenant-Commander Harold O. Joyce, D.S.C., 11 October, 1919.<ref>''The Monthly Navy List'' (December, 1920). p. 951a.</ref>
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Eric John Shelley|nick=Eric J. Shelley|appt=16 January, 1919{{NLFeb19|p. 914}}|end=7 June, 1919|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Harold Owen Joyce|nick=Harold O. Joyce|appt=11 October, 1919{{NLDec20|p. 951''a''}}|end=7 February, 1922}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Cyril John Percy Hill|nick=Cyril J. P. Hill|appt=20 September, 1922{{NLJan23|p. 904}}|end=|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Tasmania''}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCAU}}|name=Harry Leslie Howden|nick=Harry L. Howden|appt=24 December, 1924{{NLFeb26|p. 295}}|end=|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Tasmania''}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Robert Miller|nick=John R. Miller|appt=31 July, 1931{{NLJan33|p. 298}}|end=|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Tasmania''}}
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==See Also==
==See Also==
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Latest revision as of 11:36, 23 April 2018

H.M.S. Tasmania (1918)
Pendant Number: G.97 (Feb 1919)[1]
Builder: William Beardmore & Company[2]
Ordered: Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)[3]
Launched: 22 Nov, 1918[4]
Completed: 29 Jan, 1919[5]
Sold:

H.M.S. Tasmania was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending. She was completed just after the war.

Service

The destroyer was re-commissioned as H.M.A.S. Tasmania for service in the Royal Australian Navy on 27 January 1920.

She was re-commissioned at Sydney on 20 September, 1922.[6]

In mid-1931, she was in reserve at Sydney,[7] where she commissioned on 31 July.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 75.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 85.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 85.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 75.
  5. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 311.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 295.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 295.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 298.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 914.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 951a.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 904.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 295.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 298.

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