H.M.S. Fermoy (1919)

H.M.S. Fermoy (1919)
Pendant Number:	N.7A (Jul 1919) N.A0 (Nov 1919)
Builder:	Dundee Shipbuilding Company
Ordered:	mid 1917
Launched:	5 Feb, 1919
Commissioned:	12 July, 1919
Sunk:	4 May, 1941
Fate:	by aircraft at Malta

H.M.S. Fermoy was one of one hundred and fourteen Hunt Class minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Fermoy commissioned at Dundee on 12 July, 1919. By January 1921, she was working with the Periscope School at Portland, remaining there until at least mid-1931.

Transferred to Reserve on 25 August, 1934.

Captains

• Lieutenant-Commander John R. G. Moncreiffe, July, 1919 – 4 October, 1919
• Commander Fitzroy H. D. Byron, 4 October, 1919 – May, 1920  (and for duty with submarines)
• Commander John B. Glencross, May, 1920  (and for duty with submarines)
• Commander Hubert Vaughan-Jones, 28 November, 1921 – 14 April, 1923
• Commander Hugh R. Marrack, 14 April, 1923 – 1 August, 1924
• Commander Alfred G. Hine, 1 August, 1924 – 12 August, 1926  (and for duty with submarines)
• Commander Alexander B. Greig, 11 August, 1926 – 15 August, 1927  (and for duty with submarines)
• Commander Edward A. Aylmer, 15 August, 1927 – 19 September, 1927  (and for duty Class I with submarines, temporary)
• Commander Alexander B. Greig, 15 September, 1927 – 8 September, 1928  (and for duty with submarines)
• Commander John G. Sutton, 8 September, 1928 – 12 April, 1930  (and for duty with submarines)
• Commander Henry B. Crane, 12 April, 1930 – 29 December, 1931  (and for duty Class I with submarines)
• Commander Reginald M. Servaes, 29 December, 1931 – 29 December, 1933  (and for duty with submarines)
• Lieutenant-Commander John Bostock, late March, 1934  (transferred in from Antelope)
• Lieutenant-Commander Arthur L. Pears, 3 April, 1934 – 25 August, 1934
• Lieutenant-Commander Robert A. Cassidi, 1 July, 1935 – 18 July, 1935
• Lieutenant-Commander John G. D. Wetherfield, 17 January, 1939 – 4 May, 1941  (ship destroyed under his command)

See Also

• Wikipedia