H.M.S. Ossory (1915)

H.M.S. Ossory (1915)
Pendant Number:	G.23 (1914) G.17 (Jan 1917) H.A5 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	John Brown & Company
Ordered:	Nov 1914 (2nd Order)
Launched:	9 Oct, 1915
Completed:	Nov, 1915
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H.M.S. Ossory was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the "M" class built for the Royal Navy during the Great War.

Service

Ossory fought at the Battle of Jutland, screening the Battle Fleet as one of the 14 "M" class destroyers of the Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla.

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport on 4 December, 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant in Command Ernest W. Kirkby, November, 1915 – c. late November 1915
• Commander Harold V. Dundas, November, 1915 – 14 September, 1916  (in command at Battle of Jutland)
• Commander (I, Gr.) Cecil R. Hemans, 14 September, 1916 – 23 March, 1919  (away sick, early December, 1917 to 20 February, 1918)
• Lieutenant in Command Raymond G. F. H. de Caen, 26 March, 1919 – 5 December, 1919

See Also

• Eleventh D.F. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland
• Wikipedia