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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Gilbert George Pearse Hewett|nick=Gilbert G. P. Hewett|appt=12 January, 1921{{NLJan21|p. 782}}|end=}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Gilbert George Pearse Hewett|nick=Gilbert G. P. Hewett|appt=12 January, 1921{{NLJan21|p. 782}}|end=}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alexander Riall Wadham Woods|nick=Alexander R. W. Woods|appt=17 August, 1922{{NLJul24|p. 242}}|end=}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alexander Riall Wadham Woods|nick=Alexander R. W. Woods|appt=17 August, 1922{{NLJul24|p. 242}}|end=}} | ||
| + | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Macaulay Lecky|nick=Arthur M. Lecky|appt=22 August, 1924<ref>Lecky Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46/54.|D7603561}} f. 54.</ref>|end=12 April, 1926<ref>Lecky Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46/54.|D7603561}} f. 54.</ref>}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=1 May, 1931<ref>Boxer Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|end=1 August, 1933<ref>Boxer Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=1 May, 1931<ref>Boxer Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|end=1 August, 1933<ref>Boxer Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Heathcote Gordon Walker|nick=Francis H. G. Walker|appt=4 August, 1936<ref>Walker Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/73.}} f. 79.</ref>|end=January, 1937<ref>Walker Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/73.}} f. 79.</ref>|note=died in command}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Heathcote Gordon Walker|nick=Francis H. G. Walker|appt=4 August, 1936<ref>Walker Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/73.}} f. 79.</ref>|end=January, 1937<ref>Walker Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/51/73.}} f. 79.</ref>|note=died in command}} | ||
Revision as of 11:23, 12 June 2016
| H.M.S. Greenwich (1915) | |
|---|---|
| Pendant Number: | CA (Jan, 1916) C6 (Jan 1918)[1] |
| Builder: | Dobson[2] |
| Launched: | 5 Jul, 1915[3] |
| Commissioned: | 10 Jun, 1916[4] |
| Sold: | 11 Jul, 1946[5] |
H.M.S. Greenwich was purchased while under construction and completed by Swan Hunter as a depot ship.
Service
Upon commissioning in mid-1916, Greenwich went to Scapa Flow to serve the Fourteenth Destroyer Flotilla. She remained there through the end of the war, maintaining "M" class and later model destroyers.[6]
Captains
Dates of appointment given.
- Captain Harry R. Godfrey, 15 February, 1916[7] – 1917[Inference]
- Captain Rafe G. Rowley-Conwy, 30 April, 1917[8] – 1917
- Captain Kerrison Kiddle, 5 December, 1917[9] – February, 1919
- Captain Nicholas E. Archdale, 28 February, 1919[10][11] – 11 January, 1921[12]
- Captain Gilbert G. P. Hewett, 12 January, 1921[13]
- Captain Alexander R. W. Woods, 17 August, 1922[14]
- Captain Arthur M. Lecky, 22 August, 1924[15] – 12 April, 1926[16]
- Captain Henry P. Boxer, 1 May, 1931[17] – 1 August, 1933[18]
- Captain Francis H. G. Walker, 4 August, 1936[19] – January, 1937[20] (died in command)
- Captain Henry P. Boxer, 28 January, 1937[21] – 1 June, 1938[22] (and as King's Harbour Master, Rosyth)
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 394s.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 394c.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 804.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 781.
- ↑ Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
- ↑ Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 242.
- ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
- ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
- ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
- ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
- ↑ Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
- ↑ Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
- ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
- ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
