H.M.S. Mackay (1918)

H.M.S. Mackay (1918)
Pendant Number:	F.A6 (Jun 1919)
Builder:	Cammell Laird
Ordered:	Apr, 1917
Launched:	21 Dec, 1918
Commissioned:	19 May, 1919
Sold:	18 Feb, 1947

H.M.S. Mackay (named H.M.S. Claverhouse until 31 December, 1918) was one of eight flotilla leaders of the Scott class. She was not completed in time to see action in the Great War.

Service

Mackay arrived at Sheerness with Sportive, Swallow and Splendid on 31 October, 1923.

Mackay was re-commissioned at Chatham on 4 December, 1923. By March 1925, she was with the Ninth Destroyer Flotilla.

Re-commissioned at Rosyth as leader of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla with the Atlantic Fleet on 1 June, 1927.

The ship was reduced to Reserve at Chatham on 31 October, 1928.

Mackay was re-commissioned at Devonport on 11 June, 1929.

She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 29 December, 1931.

Mackay commissioned at Devonport on 4 April, 1933.

In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10. Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.

She re-commissioned at Devonport on 1 January, 1935.

Mackay was re-commissioned in Reserve at Devonport on 15 June, 1936.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Captain Dashwood F. Moir, 6 May, 1919 – 7 July, 1919
• Captain Aubrey T. Tillard, 7 July, 1919 – 9 July, 1920
• Commander Hugh D. Colville, 9 July, 1920 – June, 1921
• Captain Dashwood F. Moir, 6 July, 1921 – 15 January, 1923  (as Captain (D) of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Sidney R. Bailey, 15 January, 1923 – 15 January, 1925  (as Captain (D) of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla, later Eighth Destroyer Flotilla and Ninth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Lewis G. E. Crabbe, 15 January, 1925 – 4 July, 1926  (and as Captain (D), Ninth Destroyer Flotilla, then of Seventh Destroyer Flotilla from 1 April, 1925)
• Captain Evelyn C. O. Thomson, 4 July, 1926 – 2 December, 1926^{[Fact Check]}
• Captain Montague G. B. Legge, 2 December, 1926 – 6 April, 1927  (and as Captain (D), Seventh Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain John H. K. Clegg, 6 April, 1927 – June, 1927  (and as Captain (D), Seventh Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Lewis G. E. Crabbe, June, 1927  (and as Captain (D), Fifth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Frank Elliott, 16 August, 1927  (and as Captain (D), Fifth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Lieutenant-Commander Donald C. Brock, 20 February, 1928 – 21 January, 1929
• Captain John H. K. Clegg,  – 7 December, 1929  (and as Captain (D), Seventh Destroyer Flotilla, arriving on transfer from Montrose)
• Captain Alan R. Dewar, 16 November, 1929 – 10 December, 1931  (and as Captain (D), First Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Edward B. Cloete, 10 December, 1931 – December, 1932  (and as Captain (D), First Destroyer Flotilla)
• Lieutenant-Commander Frederick R. M. Johnson, 30 March, 1932 – 23 April, 1932  (temporary)
• Captain Charles F. Harris, 2 January, 1933 – May, 1933  (and as Captain (D), First Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Philip E. Phillips, April, 1933 – December, 1934  (and as Captain (S), Second Submarine Flotilla)
• Captain Geoffrey R. S. Watkins, 12 December, 1934 – 1935  (and as Captain (S), Second Submarine Flotilla)
• Commander William A. R. Cartwright, 24 September, 1935 – 29 June, 1936
• Captain Percival H. G. James, 28 September, 1938 – 9 October, 1938  (and as Captain (D), Twelfth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain Philip L. Vian, 3 August, 1939 – 26 September, 1939  (and as Captain (D), Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla)
• Commander Graham H. Stokes, 26 September, 1939 – 1 May, 1940
• Lieutenant-Commander (retired) Ernest Adams, 1 May, 1940 – 10 June, 1940
• Commander Graham H. Stokes, 10 June, 1940 – 15 October, 1940
• Commander Eric G. A. Clifford, 15 October, 1940 – late 1940
• Lieutenant-Commander (retired) Ernest Adams, late 1940 – 25 January, 1941
• Lieutenant-Commander Ernest C. Coats, 25 January, 1941 – 15 May, 1941
• Captain Thomas E. Halsey, 15 May, 1941 – 16 September, 1941  (and as Captain (D), Sixteenth Destroyer Flotilla)
• Captain John P. Wright, 16 September, 1941 – 5 July, 1942
• Captain Selwyn V. Jephson, 5 July, 1942 – 22 August, 1942
• Lieutenant in Command James B. Marjoribanks, 22 August, 1942 – 29 September, 1942
• Captain Selwyn V. Jephson, 29 September, 1942 – 15 November, 1943
• Commander Richard F. Jessel, 15 November, 1943 – mid 1944
• Lieutenant in Command James W. Cortlandt-Simpson, mid 1944 – June, 1944
• Captain Jocelyn S. C. Salter, June, 1944 – October, 1944
• Commander (retired) Walter J. Phipps, 1 December, 1944 – mid 1945

See Also

• Wikipedia