H.M.S. Whitley (1918)
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Pendant Number: | F.20 (Nov 1918)[1] |
Builder: | Doxford[2] |
Ordered: | December, 1916[3] |
Launched: | 13 Apr, 1918[4] |
Completed: | 11 Oct, 1918[5] |
Commissioned: | 23 Sep, 1918[6] |
Bombed: | 19 May, 1940[7] |
Fate: | beached off Belgium[8] |
H.M.S. Whitley was one of twenty-one "W" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.
Service
Whitley was commissioned on 23 September, 1918.[9]
She was re-commissioned at Chatham on 4 December, 1923 to serve with the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Atlantic Fleet.[10]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander Jack E. A. Mocatta, 6 September, 1918[11]
- Lieutenant-Commander Ernald G. H. Master, 13 October, 1919[12][13] – 15 December, 1921[14]
- Lieutenant-Commander Edward S. F. Fegen, 15 December, 1921[15] – September, 1922[16]
- Lieutenant-Commander Herbert M. Hughes, 1 January, 1923[17][18] – 22 November, 1925[19]
- Lieutenant-Commander Walter N. T. Beckett, 1928[20] – March, 1929[21]
- Commander Colin S. Thomson, March, 1929[22] – 19 April, 1929[23]
- Commander Edmund G. N. Rushbrooke, 20 April, 1929 – c. May, 1929
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
- ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 313.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 899.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 899.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 288.
- ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1919). p. 943.
- ↑ Master Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/316. f. ?.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 899.
- ↑ Master Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/316. f. ?.
- ↑ Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/8. f. 8.
- ↑ Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/8. f. 8.
- ↑ Hughes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/195. f. 563.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 289.
- ↑ Hughes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/195. f. 563. This date is possibly read incorrectly.
- ↑ Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
- ↑ Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
- ↑ Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/76. f. 432.
- ↑ Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/76. f. 432.
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