H.M.S. Torrid (1917)

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H.M.S. Torrid (1917)
Pendant Number: F.75 (Jan 1917)
F.80 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Swan Hunter[2]
Ordered: Mar 1916 (8th Order)[3][4]
Launched: 10 Feb, 1917[5]
Completed: May, 1917[6]
Handed over: 27 Jan, 1937[7]
Fate: Wrecked 16 Mar 1937

H.M.S. Torrid was one of sixty-two "R" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1916-17.

Service

Torrid joined the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla upon her commissioning in May, 1917 under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Ernest Walter Kirkby. She operated with the flotilla under his direction as part of the Harwich Force through the end of the war until it was disbanded in February, 1919, at which time Torrid was placed in reserve at Devonport.

She completed to reduced Crew on 20 October, 1919.[8]

She was commissioned at Devonport with Reserve Crew on 12 November, 1925.[9]

Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 1 February, 1927 for work the the Portland Anti-Submarine Flotilla.[10] By mid-1931, this was called the First Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland.[11]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 70.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  4. ↑ March. British Destroyers. p. 184.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  6. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 310.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 70.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 275a.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 275a.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 275.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 275.
  12. ↑ Kirkby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/87. f. 216.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1919). p. 921.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1920). p. 876.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 876.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 275.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 275.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 280.

Bibliography


"R" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Radstock Raider Romola Rowena Restless
Rigorous Rocket Rob Roy Redgauntlet Redoubt
Recruit Sturgeon Sceptre Salmon Sylph
Sarpedon Sable Setter Sorceress Satyr
Sharpshooter Simoom Skate Starfish Stork
Skilful Springbok Tancred Tarpon Telemachus
Tempest Tetrarch Tenacious Thisbe Thruster
  Tormentor Tornado Torrent Torrid  
Thornycroft Specials
Rosalind Radiant Retriever Taurus Teazer
Yarrow Specials
Sabrina Strongbow Surprise Sybille Truculent
  Tyrant Ulleswater  
Modified "R" Class
Ulster Undine Tower Trenchant Tristram
  Tirade Ursula Ulysses  
  Umpire Urchin Ursa  
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