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'''H.M.S. ''Greenwich''''' was purchased while under construction and completed by [[Swan Hunter]] as a depot ship.
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'''H.M.S. ''Greenwich''''' was purchased while under construction and completed by [[Swan Hunter]] as a destroyer depot ship.
  
 
==Service==
 
==Service==
''Greenwich'' served the {{UK-DF|14}} at Scapa Flow.{{DittColl|p. 295}}
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Upon commissioning in mid-1916, ''Greenwich'' went to Scapa Flow to serve the {{UK-DF|14}}.  She remained there through the end of the war, maintaining [["M" Class Destroyer (1914)|"M" class]] and later model destroyers.{{DittColl|p. 295}}
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Re-commissioned on 15 September, 1924.{{NLApr25|p. 242}}
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The ship was reduced to Reserve on 21 December, 1925.{{NLJul27|p. 243}}  She was re-commissioned with special complement on 16 August, 1927.{{NLJan33|p. 243}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
Dates of appointment given.
 
Dates of appointment given.
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Harry Rowlandson Godfrey|nick=Harry R. Godfrey|appt=15 February, 1916<ref>Godfrey Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/44/235.|D7576608}} f. 235.</ref>{{NLDec16|p. 394''s''}}|end=March, 1917<ref>Godfrey Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/44/235.|D7576608}} f. 235.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Clement Loftus Long|nick=Clement L. Long|appt=22 March, 1917|end=30 April, 1917}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Rafe Grenville Rowley-Conwy|nick=Rafe G. Rowley-Conwy|appt=30 April, 1917<ref>Rowley-Conwy Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/83.|D7576589}} ff. 83, 232.</ref>{{NLNov17|p. 394''c''}}|end=November, 1917<ref>Rowley-Conwy Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/83.|D7576589}} ff. 83, 232.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Kerrison Kiddle|nick=Kerrison Kiddle|appt=5 December, 1917<ref>Kiddle Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/250.|D7576610}} f. 250.</ref>{{NLFeb19|p. 804}}|end=1 March, 1919<ref>Kiddle Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/250.|D7576610}} f. 250.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Nicholas Edward Archdale|nick=Nicholas E. Archdale|appt=28 February, 1919{{NLDec19|p. 781}}<ref>Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>|end=11 January, 1921<ref>Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>}}
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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=17 August, 1922}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alexander Riall Wadham Woods|nick=Alexander R. W. Woods|appt=17 August, 1922{{NLJul24|p. 242}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Macaulay Lecky|nick=Arthur M. Lecky|appt=22 August, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 242}}<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>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis Walter Despard Twigg|nick=Francis W. D. Twigg|appt=20 December, 1925<ref>Twigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 572.</ref>|end=11 June, 1926<ref>Twigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 572.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Trevenen Wilson|nick=Charles T. Wilson|appt=11 June, 1926{{NLJul27|p. 243}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe|nick=Lewis G. E. Crabbe|appt=16 August, 1927<ref>Crabbe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/168.|D7603675}} f. 169.</ref>|end=15 October, 1929<ref>Crabbe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/168.|D7603675}} f. 169.</ref>|note=and as Assistant Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Rosyth and King's Harbour Master, Rosyth}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Jermyn Landon|nick=Arthur J. Landon|appt=15 October, 1929<ref>Landon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|end=17 April, 1931<ref>Landon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|ass=15 October, 1929<ref>Landon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|note=and as Assistant Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Rosyth and King's Harbour Master, Rosyth}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=1 May, 1931{{NLJul31|p. 243}}<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>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master, [[Rosyth]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Albert John Robertson|nick=Albert J. Robertson|appt=1 August, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 244}}|end=1 August, 1935|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}}
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{{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}}
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{{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]]}}
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Lecky and Twigg seem to overlap.
  
 
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==See Also==
 
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Revision as of 11:32, 1 September 2018

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 destroyer 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]

Re-commissioned on 15 September, 1924.[7]

The ship was reduced to Reserve on 21 December, 1925.[8] She was re-commissioned with special complement on 16 August, 1927.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment given.

Lecky and Twigg seem to overlap.

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. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 242.
  8. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 243.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 243.
  10. Godfrey Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/235. f. 235.
  11. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 394s.
  12. Godfrey Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/235. f. 235.
  13. Rowley-Conwy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/83. ff. 83, 232.
  14. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 394c.
  15. Rowley-Conwy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/83. ff. 83, 232.
  16. Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
  17. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 804.
  18. Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
  19. The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 781.
  20. Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  21. Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  22. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
  23. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 242.
  24. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 242.
  25. Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
  26. Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
  27. Twigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 572.
  28. Twigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 572.
  29. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 243.
  30. Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
  31. Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
  32. Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
  33. Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
  34. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 243.
  35. Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  36. Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  37. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 244.
  38. Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
  39. Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
  40. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
  41. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
  42. Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  43. 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).