H.M.S. Somme (1918)

H.M.S. Somme (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.52 (Nov 1918)
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Ordered:	Apr, 1917 (1st Order)
Launched:	10 Sep, 1918
Completed:	4 Nov, 1918
Sold:

H.M.S. Somme was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

Somme was recommissioned on 15 December, 1920.

She re-commissioned at Portsmouth with 2/5ths crew on 4 December, 1923 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet..

Somme was re-commissioned at the Nore on 7 January, 1927 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla on the China Station.

The ship re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 1 October, 1929 for continued service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla.

In November 1929, she collided with Stormcloud through circumstances a Court of Enquiry determined was a lack of through and consideration on the part of the other ship's commanding officer.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Sydney Hopkins, 2 October, 1918 – 17 November, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander John B. Spurgin, 17 November, 1919 – 28 December, 1919^[Inference]  (appointment may have been cancelled outright)
• Lieutenant-Commander Humphrey E. Archer, 28 December, 1920 – 16 December, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander Edward S. F. Fegen, c. August, 1922 – October, 1923  (in command on re-commissioning)
• Lieutenant-Commander John W. Durnford, October, 1923 – 12 November, 1923
• Lieutenant-Commander Walter N. T. Beckett, 12 November, 1923 – 30 September, 1924
• Lieutenant-Commander Francis S. W. de Winton, 9 March, 1925 – 1 March, 1929
• Commander John G. Crossley, February, 1929 – 3 October, 1930
• Lieutenant-Commander Philip N. Walter, 1 August, 1930 – 17 December, 1931
• Lieutenant-Commander Stuart E. Crewe-Read, 17 December, 1931 – 2 May, 1932

See Also

• Wikipedia