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
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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 left Malta for the Black Sea on 27 December, passing through Constantinople on the 29th in company with Marlborough, Speedy and Tobago.

The ship arrived again at Constantinople on 13 February, 1920, leaving on the 15th for Mersina.

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 – after 30 June, 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
• Commander Salisbury H. Simpson, 10 July, 1924 – c. 20 August, 1924^[Inference]  (temporary, for Reserve Fleet Exercises)
• Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey R. Chambers, 28 February, 1928 – 16 August, 1928  (for passage to Rosyth)