H.M.S. Harebell (1918)

H.M.S. Harebell (1918)
Pendant Number:	T.03 (Jun, 1918)
Builder:	Barclay Curle & Company
Ordered:	Feb, 1917
Launched:	10 May, 1918
Broken up:	Dec, 1939

H.M.S. Harebell was one of twenty-eight Anchusa Class convoy sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

The sloop was re-commissioned on 12 February, 1920 for service as a Fishery Protection Cruiser.

Transferred to Dockyard Control on 24 May, 1937.

Captains

• Acting Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. John Hennessy, 15 November, 1918
• Captain Lionel G. Preston, March, 1920 – 16 November, 1920  (and Senior Officer, Patrol, Minesweeping and Fishery Protection Squadron)
• Lieutenant-Commander Hugh F. Curry, 1 November, 1922 – 12 March, 1923  (before and after this stint, he served as navigating officer)
• Captain Edward R. G. R. Evans, 9 January, 1923 – 15 August, 1925  (and as "Captain A/P")
• Captain (I) Gerald C. Dickens, 15 August, 1925 – 15 September, 1926  (and as "Captain A/P")
• Captain Archibald Cochrane, 15 September, 1926  (and as "Captain A/P")}
• Captain Malcolm L. Goldsmith, 11 January, 1929 – 15 July, 1930  (and as Captain of Fishery Protection and Minesweeping Flotilla)
• Captain Benjamin W. Barrow, 15 July, 1930 – 15 July, 1932  (and as Captain of Fishery Protection and Minesweeping Flotilla)
• Captain Kenneth D. W. Macpherson, 15 July, 1932  (and as Captain of Fishery Protection and Minesweeping Flotilla)
• Captain John S. G. Fraser, 16 July, 1934 – 1 August, 1935  (and as Captain of Fishery Protection and Minesweeping Flotilla)
• Captain Hubert G. D. Acland, 1 August, 1935 – 11 May, 1936^{[Fact Check]}  (and as Captain of Fishery Protection and Minesweeping Flotilla)
• Captain Victor A. C. Crutchley, May, 1936 – 20 April, 1937
• Captain Ernest R. Archer, 20 April, 1937 – 10 May, 1937  (and as Captain of Fishery Protection and Minesweeping Flotilla)

See Also

• Wikipedia