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==Captains== | ==Captains== | ||
Revision as of 13:37, 20 April 2018
| H.M.S. Shakespeare (1917) | |
|---|---|
| Pendant Number: | F.89 (Jan 1918)[1] |
| Builder: | John I. Thornycroft & Company[2] |
| Launched: | 7 Jul, 1917[3] |
| Handed over: | 2 Sep, 1936[4] |
H.M.S. Shakespeare was one of five flotilla leaders of the Shakespeare class.
Service
Shakespeare was recommissioned at Port Edgar on 2 October, 1920.[5]
She recommissioned at Port Edgar with Reserve Crew on 27 September, 1923.[6]
Reduced to Reserve on 2 December, 1925.[7]
Commissioned on 1 April, 1928.[8] By mid-1931, she was in the Reserve Fleet at the Nore,[9] remaining there until at least early 1933.[10]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain Francis A. W. Buller, 26 September, 1917[11][12] – 5 April, 1918[13] (and on staff of Captain Superintendent of Torpedo Boat Destroyers)
- Commander Malcolm L. Goldsmith, 27 March, 1918[14] – 8 June, 1918[15]
- Commander Fischer B. Watson, 16 September, 1918[16][17] – 19 March, 1919[18]
- Commander Frederick E. K. Strong, 19 March, 1919[19][20] – 9 January, 1920[21]
- Commander Edmond J. G. Mackinnon, 9 January, 1920[22][23] – 7 May, 1921[24]
- Captain Sidney J. Meyrick, 4 May, 1921 – 2 May, 1922 (and as Captain (D), Sixth Destroyer Flotilla)
- Captain Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, 2 May, 1922[25] – 19 December, 1922[26] (and as Captain (D) of Sixth Destroyer Flotilla)
- Captain Eric G. Robinson, 19 December, 1922[27] – September, 1923[28] (and as Captain (D) of Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, then of Seventh Destroyer Flotilla from July, 1923)
- Captain Edmond J. G. Mackinnon, September, 1923[29][30] – 15 September, 1924[31] (and as Captain (D), Seventh Destroyer Flotilla)
- Captain Lewis G. E. Crabbe, 15 September, 1924[32] – 15 January, 1925[33] (and as Captain (D), Seventh Destroyer Flotilla)
- Captain James V. Creagh, 15 January, 1925[34] – 11 May, 1925[35] (and as Captain (D), Seventh Destroyer Flotilla, then Ninth Destroyer Flotilla from 1 April, 1925)
- Captain James V. Creagh, 7 July, 1925[36] – 10 October, 1925[37] (and as Captain (D), First Destroyer Flotilla)
- Captain Guy L. Coleridge, 10 October, 1925[38] – 21 December, 1925[39] (and as Captain (D), Ninth Destroyer Flotilla)
- Lieutenant-Commander Arthur J. Cubison, 23 November, 1925[40]
- Captain Edmond J. G. Mackinnon, 14 May, 1929[41] – 12 December, 1929[42] (and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet, Nore)
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 863.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 269.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 269.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 269.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 269.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 272.
- ↑ Buller Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/465. f. 538.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 397x.
- ↑ Buller Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/465. f. 538.
- ↑ Goldsmith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 247.
- ↑ Goldsmith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 247.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 906a.
- ↑ Watson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 80.
- ↑ Watson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 80.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1920). p. 863.
- ↑ Strong Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 38.
- ↑ Strong Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45. f. 38.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 863.
- ↑ Mackinnon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/228. f. 232.
- ↑ Mackinnon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/228. f. 232.
- ↑ Cunningham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 286.
- ↑ Cunningham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 286.
- ↑ Robinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 281.
- ↑ Robinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 281.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 269.
- ↑ Mackinnon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/228. f. 232.
- ↑ Mackinnon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/228. f. 232.
- ↑ Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
- ↑ Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 269.
- ↑ Creagh Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/95. f. 220.
- ↑ Creagh Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/95. f. 220.
- ↑ Creagh Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/95. f. 220.
- ↑ Coleridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91. f. 160.
- ↑ Coleridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/91. f. 160.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 269.
- ↑ Mackinnon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/228. f. 232.
- ↑ Mackinnon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/228. f. 232.
Bibliography
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