H.M.S. Merry Hampton (1918)

H.M.S. Merry Hampton (1918)
Pendant Number:	T.8# (Sep, 1918)
Builder:	Blyth Shipbuilding
Launched:	19 Dec, 1918
Scuttled:	Feb, 1943

H.M.S. Merry Hampton was one of twenty-two 24 Class sweeping sloops completed for the Royal Navy. She was renamed as Herald in 1923 and converted to a survey ship.

Captains

• Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. Archibald C. Bucknell, 14 May, 1919 – 28 October, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Arthur G. N. Wyatt, 2 December, 1925 – 28 June, 1926  (ship now named H.M.S. Herald)
• Lieutenant-Commander Horace V. Silk, February, 1926 – May, 1927
• Commander Francis E. B. Haselfoot, 26 April, 1927 – 13 March, 1929
• Lieutenant-Commander Harold E. Turner, 3 November, 1928 – December 1928

See Also

• Wikipedia