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
Sold:

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 arrived in Alexandria on 9 October 1919.

Sportive arrived in Alexandria on 25 October 1919. She Malta for the Black Sea on 27 December.

Sportive recommissioned at Malta on 17 June, 1920.

She reduced to Reserve Complement on 5 June, 1924.

Godfrey Ratcliffe Chambers took command of Sportive for passage to Rosyth in early 1928. Once there, she went into Maintenance Reserve on 30 March, 1928. She would remain in this disposition until being sold in 1936.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant in Command Arthur K. Gibson, 2 December, 1918 – December, 1918  (to transfer to Plover "when convenient")
• Lieutenant-Commander Henry P. Boxer, 7 December, 1918 – 25 January, 1919
• Commander Charles H. Knox-Little, 25 January, 1919 – 1921
• Lieutenant-Commander Henry A. Binmore, 15 July, 1921 – 16 March, 1923  (dismissed the ship and reprimanded for stranding her)
• Lieutenant-Commander Donal S. McGrath, March, 1923 – October, 1923
• Lieutenant-Commander Lewes G. Gardner, October, 1923 – 29 November, 1923
• Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey R. Chambers, 28 February, 1928 – 16 August, 1928  (for passage to Rosyth)