H.M.S. Turquoise (1918)

H.M.S. Turquoise (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.22 (Mar 1919)
Builder:	Yarrow & Company
Ordered:	Apr, 1917 (1st Order)
Launched:	9 Nov, 1918
Completed:	Mar, 1919
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H.M.S. Turquoise was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending. She was completed after the war.

Service

Turquoise was re-commissioned on 16 July, 1921.

The ship paid off into the Rosyth Maintenance Reserve on 17 November, 1927.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant in Command Reginald Nash, 1 March, 1919 – 23 April, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander George A. Scott, 15 June, 1919 – 1 October, 1919  (and in charge "of a group")
• Lieutenant-Commander Philip A. Heyder, 1 October, 1919 – 17 June, 1920
• Lieutenant-Commander Hamilton E. Snepp, 5 June, 1920 – 13 July, 1921

See Also

• Wikipedia