H.M.S. Torch (1918)

H.M.S. Torch (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.33 (Jun 1918)
Builder:	Yarrow & Company
Ordered:	Apr, 1917 (1st Order)
Launched:	16 Mar, 1918
Completed:	11 May, 1918
Sold:

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

Service

Torch was re-commissioned at Malta on 13 September, 1920.

She was re-commissioned at Devonport with 2/5ths crew on 4 December, 1923.

Torch was re-commissioned at Chatham on 27 January, 1925.

Re-commissioned at Chatham with special crew on 1 May, 1928.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant in Command Kenneth G. Ramsey, 18 December, 1918 – 11 November, 1920
• Lieutenant-Commander Austen G. Lilley, August, 1920 – August, 1921
• Commander Vernon S. Butler, August, 1921 – 20 November, 1921
• Commander Richard L. Hamer, 20 November, 1921 – October, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander Francis B. Hanson, 6 July, 1923 – 1923  (left, undated, on transfer for command of group of T.B.Ds. in reserve)
• Lieutenant-Commander Thomas B. Fellowes, 4 December, 1923 – 1 April, 1924
• Lieutenant-Commander David J. R. Simson, 1 April, 1924 – 3 December, 1924
• Lieutenant-Commander Alfred C. Collinson, 3 December, 1924 – January, 1925  (went to Stormcloud upon her commissioning)
• Lieutenant-Commander Daniel H. Rainier, 1 May, 1928 – 14 December, 1928

See Also

• Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net
• Wikipedia