H.M.S. Sportive (1918)

H.M.S. Sportive (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.48 (Jan 1919)
Builder:	Swan Hunter
Ordered:	Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)
Launched:	19 Sep, 1918
Completed:	Dec, 1918
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H.M.S. Sportive was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

Sportive recommissioned at Malta on 17 June, 1920.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander Henry P. Boxer, 7 December, 1918 – 25 January, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Charles H. Knox-Little, 25 January, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Henry A. Binmore, 15 July, 1921 – 16 March, 1923  (dismissed the ship and reprimanded for stranding her)
• Lieutenant-Commander Lewes G. Gardner, October, 1923 – 29 November, 1923

See Also

• Wikipedia