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Revision as of 10:27, 4 November 2015

H.M.S. Walker (1917)
Pendant Number: G.22 (Jan 1918)
G.08 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Denny[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 29 Nov, 1917[4]
Completed: 12 Feb, 1918[5]
Sold: 15 Mar, 1946[6]

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

Service

Walker joined the Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla in February, 1918[7] and and remained with that formation until it was disbanded in March, 1919, at which point she was allocated along with the Eleventh's other "V"s and "W"s to the newly-fashioned First Destroyer Flotilla.[8]

She re-commissioned at Devonport on 9 December, 1920.[9]

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. 84.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  7. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (February, 1918). p. 12.
  8. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 11.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 896.
  10. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 941.
  11. The Navy List. (November, 1920). p. 896.
  12. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 896.

Bibliography


"W" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Wakeful Watchman Walpole Whitley Walker
Westcott Walrus Wolfhound Warwick Wessex
Voyager Whirlwind Wrestler Winchelsea Winchester
  Westminster Windsor Wryneck Waterhen  
Thornycroft Specials
  Wolsey Woolston  
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