H.M.S. Spindrift (1918)

H.M.S. Spindrift (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.21 (Apr 1919)
Builder:	Fairfield
Ordered:	Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)
Launched:	30 Dec, 1918
Completed:	2 Apr, 1919
Sold:

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

Service

She was reduced to Reserve at Devonport on 14 August, 1920.

Commissioned on 16 November, 1927. By early 1929, she was in Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander Francis W. D. Twigg, 1 March, 1919 – 1 October, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Ralph Neville, 1 October, 1919 – 29 October, 1919
• Commander Herbert W. Wyld, 21 June, 1920 – 9 February, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander Joseph H. L. Yorke, c. November, 1927 – c. late November, 1927  (in command on passage to Rosyth)

See Also

• Wikipedia