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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin|nick=Valentine M. Wyndham-Quin|appt=6 May, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 284}}|end=July, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>|note=briefly went to {{UK-Vesper}} before returning on 15 August}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin|nick=Valentine M. Wyndham-Quin|appt=6 May, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 284}}|end=July, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>|note=briefly went to {{UK-Vesper}} before returning on 15 August}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin|nick=Valentine M. Wyndham-Quin|appt=15 August, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>|end=29 May, 1926<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin|nick=Valentine M. Wyndham-Quin|appt=15 August, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>|end=29 May, 1926<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>}}

Revision as of 14:20, 15 July 2016

H.M.S. Vimiera (1917)
Pendant Number: F.28 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Swan Hunter[2]
Launched: 22 Jun, 1917[3]
Completed: 19 Sep, 1917[4]
Mined: 9 Jan, 1942[5]

H.M.S. Vimiera was one of twenty-five "V" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.

Service

In August, 1917, Vimiera was assigned to the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla.[6] She commissioned on 5 September, 1917.[7]

She was reduced to Reserve at Chatham on 7 October, 1920.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
  4. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
  6. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (August, 1917). p. 12.
  7. The Navy List. (June, 1920). p. 889.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 890.
  9. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 398z.
  10. Moir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/232. f. 236.
  11. Moir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/232. f. 236.
  12. The Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 935.
  13. Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  14. Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  15. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 935.
  16. The Navy List. (November, 1920). p. 890.
  17. Blackman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/336. f. ?.
  18. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 836.
  19. Blackman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/336. f. ?.
  20. Wyndham-Quin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/322. f. 696.
  21. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 284.
  22. Wyndham-Quin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/322. f. 696.
  23. Wyndham-Quin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/322. f. 696.
  24. Wyndham-Quin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/322. f. 696.

Bibliography


"V" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Vancouver Vanessa Vanity Vanquisher Vanoc
Vega Velox Vehement Venturous Vendetta
Venetia Verdun Versatile Verulam Vesper
  Vidette Violent Vimiera Vittoria  
  Vivacious Vivien Vortigern Vectis  
Thornycroft Specials
  Viceroy Viscount  
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