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==Service==
 
==Service==
She was reduced at Chatham on 28 February, 1920.{{NLJan21|p. 769}}
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''Erebus'' was reduced at Chatham on 28 February, 1920.{{NLJan21|p. 769}}
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She reduced to Special Complement on 2 September, 1924.{{NLApr25|p. 238}}
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Re-commissioned on 1 September, 1926.{{NLJul27|p. 238}}
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She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 27 July, 1927 and commenced service as a cadet training ship and turret drill ship, which role she would retain through at least mid-1937.{{NLJul31|p. 237}}{{NLJul37|p. 237}}
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Reduced to special complement on 19 December, 1932.{{NLJan33|p. 237}}
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She re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 19 October, 1933.{{NLJul37|p. 237}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Samuel Wills|nick=Charles S. Wills|appt=12 August, 1916{{NLNov17|p. 393''n''}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Charles Samuel Wills|nick=Charles S. Wills|appt=12 August, 1916{{NLNov17|p. 393''n''}}|end=June, 1918}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Alfred Moreton|nick=John A. Moreton|appt=16 June, 1918<ref>Moreton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 242.</ref>|end=19 March, 1920<ref>Moreton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 242.</ref>|note=died in command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John Alfred Moreton|nick=John A. Moreton|appt=16 June, 1918<ref>Moreton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 242.</ref>|end=19 March, 1920<ref>Moreton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 242.</ref>|note=died in command}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Apsley Dunbar Maxwell Cherry|nick=Apsley D. M. Cherry|appt=11 May, 1920{{NLDec20|p. 769}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Claude Alwin Rombulow-Pearse|nick=Claude A. Rombulow-Pearse|appt=20 March, 1920|end=11 May, 1920}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Thomas Alexander Bunbury|nick=Charles T. A. Bunbury|appt=25 September, 1921{{NLJan23|p. 756}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Apsley Dunbar Maxwell Cherry|nick=Apsley D. M. Cherry|appt=11 May, 1920<ref>Cherry Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/220.|D7603006}} f. 251.</ref>{{NLDec20|p. 769}}|end=3 January, 1922<ref>Cherry Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/220.|D7603006}} f. 251.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Hubert Seeds Monroe|nick=Hubert S. Monroe|appt=1 September, 1926<ref>Monroe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 438.</ref>|end=2 September, 1927<ref>Monroe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 438.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Thomas Alexander Bunbury|nick=Charles T. A. Bunbury|appt=25 September, 1921<ref>Bunbury Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/13.|D7603520}} f. 13.</ref>{{NLJan23|p. 756}}|end=25 September, 1923<ref>Bunbury Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/13.|D7603520}} f. 13.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Geoffrey Coleridge Sumner|nick=Charles G. C. Sumner|appt=25 September, 1923<ref>Sumner Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/137.|D7604041}} f. 541.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 238}}|end=25 September, 1925<ref>Sumner Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/137.|D7604041}} f. 541.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Oliver Maurice Fitz-Gerald Stokes|nick=Oliver M. F. Stokes|appt=25 September, 1925<ref>Stokes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/103.|D7603610}} f. 103.</ref>|end=15 June, 1926<ref>Stokes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/103.|D7603610}} f. 103.</ref>|ass=25 September, 1925<ref>Stokes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/103.|D7603610}} f. 103.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Patrick Birmingham Crohan|nick=Patrick B. Crohan|appt=15 June, 1926|end=1 September, 1926}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Hubert Seeds Monroe|nick=Hubert S. Monroe|appt=1 September, 1926{{NLJul27|p. 237}}<ref>Monroe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 438.</ref>|end=2 September, 1927<ref>Monroe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 438.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet, Devonport}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Everard John Hardman-Jones|nick=Everard J. Hardman-Jones|appt=1 September, 1927<ref>Hardman-Jones Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|D7603658}} f. 152.</ref>|end=2 September, 1929<ref>Hardman-Jones Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|D7603658}} f. 152.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Everard John Hardman-Jones|nick=Everard J. Hardman-Jones|appt=1 September, 1927<ref>Hardman-Jones Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|D7603658}} f. 152.</ref>|end=2 September, 1929<ref>Hardman-Jones Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|D7603658}} f. 152.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Stephen St. Leger Moore|nick=Stephen St. L. Moore|appt=2 September, 1929|end=14 September, 1930}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Claude Hamilton|nick=John C. Hamilton|appt=13 September, 1930<ref>Hamilton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.}} f. 86.</ref>|end=20 September, 1932<ref>Hamilton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.}} f. 86.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John Claude Hamilton|nick=John C. Hamilton|appt=13 September, 1930<ref>Hamilton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.}} f. 86.</ref>|end=20 September, 1932<ref>Hamilton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.}} f. 86.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Acheson Forster|nick=Herbert A. Forster|appt=20 September, 1932<ref>Forster Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/91/200.|D8116121}} f. 203.</ref>|end=17 December, 1932<ref>Forster Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/91/200.|D8116121}} f. 203.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Arthur Kenneth Gibson|nick=Arthur K. Gibson|appt=16 December, 1932{{NLJan33|p. 237}}|end=|note=temporary}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Philip Lloyd Neville|nick=Philip L. Neville|appt=27 December, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 238}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Neville Lake|nick=Henry N. Lake|appt=9 April, 1935<ref>Lake Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55.|D7605822}} f. 66.</ref>|end=11 December, 1936<ref>Lake Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55.|D7605822}} f. 66.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Neville Lake|nick=Henry N. Lake|appt=9 April, 1935<ref>Lake Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55.|D7605822}} f. 66.</ref>|end=11 December, 1936<ref>Lake Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55.|D7605822}} f. 66.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Aubrey Basil Fanshawe|nick=Aubrey B. Fanshawe|appt=17 December, 1936{{NLJul37|p. 237}}|end=1 February, 1938}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Commander|name=Ivan Walter Whitehorn|nick=Ivan W. Whitehorn|appt=24 August, 1939|end=12 October, 1939|note=for passage to South Africa}}
 
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{{reflist}}
 
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==Bibliography==
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==See Also==
 
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Erebus_(I02)}}
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* [http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-03-HMS_Erebus.htm Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.net]
 
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Revision as of 11:11, 9 March 2019

H.M.S. Erebus (1916)
Builder: Harland & Wolff, Govan
Laid down: 12 Oct, 1915
Launched: 1916
Completed: 2 Sep, 1916
Commissioned: 2 Sep, 1916
Scrapped: Jul, 1946

H.M.S. Erebus was one of two Erebus class monitors launched in 1916 for the Royal Navy.

Service

Erebus was reduced at Chatham on 28 February, 1920.[1]

She reduced to Special Complement on 2 September, 1924.[2]

Re-commissioned on 1 September, 1926.[3]

She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 27 July, 1927 and commenced service as a cadet training ship and turret drill ship, which role she would retain through at least mid-1937.[4][5]

Reduced to special complement on 19 December, 1932.[6]

She re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 19 October, 1933.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 769.
  2. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 238.
  3. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 238.
  4. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 237.
  5. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 237.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 237.
  7. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 237.
  8. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 393n.
  9. Moreton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 242.
  10. Moreton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 242.
  11. Cherry Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/220. f. 251.
  12. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 769.
  13. Cherry Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/220. f. 251.
  14. Bunbury Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/13. f. 13.
  15. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 756.
  16. Bunbury Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/13. f. 13.
  17. Sumner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/137. f. 541.
  18. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 238.
  19. Sumner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/137. f. 541.
  20. Stokes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/103. f. 103.
  21. Stokes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/103. f. 103.
  22. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 237.
  23. Monroe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 438.
  24. Monroe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 438.
  25. Hardman-Jones Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 152.
  26. Hardman-Jones Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 152.
  27. Hamilton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 86.
  28. Hamilton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 86.
  29. Forster Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91/200. f. 203.
  30. Forster Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91/200. f. 203.
  31. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 237.
  32. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 238.
  33. Lake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55. f. 66.
  34. Lake Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55. f. 66.
  35. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 237.

See Also


Erebus Class Monitor
  Erebus Terror  
<– Marshal Ney Class Monitors (UK) Roberts Class –>