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{{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=Captain|name=Albert John Robertson|nick=Albert J. Robertson|appt=1 August, 1933|end=1 August, 1935|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Albert John Robertson|nick=Albert J. Robertson|appt=1 August, 1933|end=1 August, 1935|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Montague George Bentinck Legge|nick=Montague G. B. Legge|appt=1 August, 1935|end=4 August, 1936|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Montague George Bentinck Legge|nick=Montague G. B. Legge|appt=1 August, 1935<ref>Legge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/170.|D7604074}} f. 574.</ref>|end=4 August, 1936<ref>Legge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/170.|D7604074}} f. 574.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master}}
 
{{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}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=28 January, 1937<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|end=1 June, 1938<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|note=and as King's Harbour Master, [[Rosyth]]}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=28 January, 1937<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|end=1 June, 1938<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|note=and as King's Harbour Master, [[Rosyth]]}}

Revision as of 14:34, 27 November 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.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  4. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  7. Godfrey Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/235. f. 235.
  8. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 394s.
  9. Godfrey Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/235. f. 235.
  10. Rowley-Conwy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/83. ff. 83, 232.
  11. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 394c.
  12. Rowley-Conwy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/83. ff. 83, 232.
  13. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 804.
  14. The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 781.
  15. Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  16. Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  17. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
  18. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 242.
  19. Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
  20. Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
  21. Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
  22. Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
  23. Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
  24. Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
  25. Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  26. Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  27. Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
  28. Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
  29. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
  30. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
  31. Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  32. 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).