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==Service==
 
==Service==
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Commissioned on 15 August, 1918.{{NLJan21|p. 900}}
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''Windsor'' was commissioned on 15 August, 1918.{{NLJan21|p. 900}}
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She was re-commissioned at Port Edgar on 27 September, 1923 to serve with the {{UK-DF|6}} in the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLApr25|p. 289}}
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Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 3 May, 1926 for service with the {{UK-DF|6}} in the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLJul27|p. 289}}
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Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 1 January, 1929 for service with the {{UK-DF|6}} in the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLFeb29|p. 289}}
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While serving with the Atlantic Fleet out of Gibraltar in April 1930, ''Windsor'' was sent off to Sheerness to be taken in hand to have her boilers re-tubed.  She was replaced for the duration of this work by the {{UK-Vesper}}, to whom Commander Loveband transferred for this duration.{{NMI|22 Mar. 1930, p. 7}}
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She left Portsmouth on 7 January, 1931 with nine other ships to commence the Spring Cruise.{{NMI|10 Jan. 1931, p. 5}}
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''Windsor'' was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 24 April, 1931 for continued service with the {{UK-DF|6}} in the Atlantic Fleet under the command of [[Charles Taschereaux Beard]].{{NLJan33|p. 293}}
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''Windsor'' was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 4 May, 1933 for service with the {{UK-DF|6}}, which was now part of [[Home Fleet]].{{NLJul34|p. 293}}
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Re-commissioned at Portsmouth with Reserve Complement on 22 May 1935.{{NLOct35|p. 293}}
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She re-commissioned in Reserve at Portsmouth on 25 June, 1936.{{NLJul37|p. 292}}
  
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Arthur Grendon Tippet|nick=Arthur G. Tippet|appt=5 August, 1918<ref>Tippet Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/27.|D7604440}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLJan21|p. 900}}|end=4 May, 1921<ref>Tippet Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/27.|D7604440}} f. ?.</ref>|precBy=New Command|note=and on staff of Captain Superintendent of T.B.Ds.}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Arthur Grendon Tippet|nick=Arthur G. Tippet|appt=5 August, 1918<ref>Tippet Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/27.|D7604440}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLJan21|p. 900}}|end=4 May, 1921<ref>Tippet Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/27.|D7604440}} f. ?.</ref>|precBy=New Command|note=and on staff of Captain Superintendent of T.B.Ds.}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Ioan Montagu Lawrence Scott|nick=Henry I. M. L. Scott|appt=28 April, 1921<ref>Scott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|D7604494}}  f. ?.</ref>|ass=4 May, 1921<ref>Tippet Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/27.|D7604440}} f. ?.</ref>|end=May, 1922<ref>Scott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|D7604494}}  f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Ioan Montagu Lawrence Scott|nick=Henry I. M. L. Scott|appt=28 April, 1921<ref>Scott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|D7604494}}  f. ?.</ref>|ass=4 May, 1921<ref>Tippet Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/27.|D7604440}} f. ?.</ref>|end=May, 1922<ref>Scott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|D7604494}}  f. ?.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Patrick Wylie Rose Weir|nick=Patrick W. R. Weir|appt=15 May, 1922{{NLJan23|p. 844}}|end=1923}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Patrick Wylie Rose Weir|nick=Patrick W. R. Weir|appt=15 May, 1922{{NLJan23|p. 844}}|end=April, 1923<ref>Weir Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/53/160.|D7605571}} f. 159.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Arthur John Layard Murray|nick=Arthur J. L. Murray|appt=3 May, 1923{{NLJul24|p. 289}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Arthur John Layard Murray|nick=Arthur J. L. Murray|appt=3 May, 1923{{NLJul24|p. 289}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=29 December, 1925<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|end=9 August, 1927<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Patrick Birmingham Crohan|nick=Patrick B. Crohan|appt=4 October, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 289}}|end=29 December, 1925}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=29 December, 1925{{NLJul27|p. 289}}<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|end=9 August, 1927<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Victor Hilary Danckwerts|nick=Victor H. Danckwerts|appt=9 August, 1927<ref>Danckwerts Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/.|}} f. ?.</ref>|end=31 December, 1928<ref>Danckwerts Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/.|}} f. ?.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Ralph Kerr|nick=Ralph Kerr|appt=December, 1928<ref>Kerr Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/53/137.|D7605548}} f. 136.</ref>|end=11 November, 1929<ref>Kerr Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/53/137.|D7605548}} f. 136.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Gerald Yerburgh Loveband|nick=John G. Y. Loveband|appt=11 November, 1929<ref>Loveband Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/84.|}} f. 84.</ref>|end=c. mid 1930<ref>Loveband Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/84.|}} f. 84.  He left on transfer to {{UK-Vesper}}.</ref>|note=transferred out to {{UK-Vesper}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Gerald Yerburgh Loveband|nick=John G. Y. Loveband|appt=November, 1930<ref>Loveband Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/84.|}} f. 84.</ref>|end=5 January, 1931<ref>Loveband Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/84.|}} f. 84.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Austen Gerald Lilley|nick=Austen G. Lilley|appt=5 January, 1931<ref>Lilley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/24.|D8116656}} f. 24.</ref>|end=13 April, 1931<ref>Lilley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/24.|D8116656}} f. 24.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommCA}}|name=Charles Taschereaux Beard|nick=Charles T. Beard|appt=13 April, 1931{{NLJan33|p. 293}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Thomas Hope Troubridge|nick=Thomas H. Troubridge|appt=4 May, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 293}}|end=11 February, 1935<ref>Troubridge Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/117/65.|}} f. 65.</ref>|note=assumed command upon her commissioning}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Cecil Lewis Howe|nick=Cecil L. Howe|appt=11 February, 1935<ref>Howe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/168.|}} f. 168.</ref>|end=1935}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=James Abernethy McCoy|nick=James A. McCoy|appt=6 September, 1935<ref>McCoy Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/123/145.|}} f. 145.</ref>|end=21 August, 1936<ref>McCoy Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/123/145.|}} f. 145.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Peter Douglas Herbert Raymond Pelly|nick=Peter D. H. R. Pelly|appt=1 November, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|5449}}|end=9 July, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|5449}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=George Pepys Huddart|nick=George P. Huddart|appt=9 July, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|5449}}|end=January, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|5449}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William David Gordon Weir|nick=William D. G. Weir|appt=early 1941|end=1 May, 1941|note=also in command of Dover's Coastal Forces base H.M.S. ''Wasp'' around this time}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Montagu Granville Waldegrave|nick=John M. G. Waldegrave|appt=1 April, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|5449}}|end=13 January, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|5449}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Derick Henry Fellowes Hetherington|nick=Derick H. F. Hetherington|appt=13 January, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|5449}}|end=May, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|5449}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Lionel Robert Patrick Lawford|nick=Lionel R. P. Lawford|appt=May, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|5449}}|end=4 April, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|5449}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=John Valentine Brothers|nick=John V. Brothers|appt=4 April, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|5449}}|end=May, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|5449}}}}
 
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==See Also==
 
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Latest revision as of 19:48, 19 January 2022

H.M.S. Windsor (1918)
Pendant Number: F.12 (Sep 1918)[1]
Builder: Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 21 Jun, 1918[4]
Completed: 28 Aug, 1918[5]
Commissioned: 15 Aug, 1918[6]
Sold: 4 Mar, 1947[7]

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

Service

Windsor was commissioned on 15 August, 1918.[8]

She was re-commissioned at Port Edgar on 27 September, 1923 to serve with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet.[9]

Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 3 May, 1926 for service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet.[10]

Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 1 January, 1929 for service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet.[11]

While serving with the Atlantic Fleet out of Gibraltar in April 1930, Windsor was sent off to Sheerness to be taken in hand to have her boilers re-tubed. She was replaced for the duration of this work by the Vesper, to whom Commander Loveband transferred for this duration.[12]

She left Portsmouth on 7 January, 1931 with nine other ships to commence the Spring Cruise.[13]

Windsor was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 24 April, 1931 for continued service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet under the command of Charles Taschereaux Beard.[14]

Windsor was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 4 May, 1933 for service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, which was now part of Home Fleet.[15]

Re-commissioned at Portsmouth with Reserve Complement on 22 May 1935.[16]

She re-commissioned in Reserve at Portsmouth on 25 June, 1936.[17]

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. 313.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 900.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 900.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 289.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 289.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 289.
  12. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 22 Mar. 1930, p. 7.
  13. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 10 Jan. 1931, p. 5.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 293.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 293.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 293.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 292.
  18. ↑ Tippet Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/27. f. ?.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 900.
  20. ↑ Tippet Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/27. f. ?.
  21. ↑ Scott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/82. f. ?.
  22. ↑ Scott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/82. f. ?.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 844.
  24. ↑ Weir Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/160. f. 159.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 289.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 289.
  27. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 289.
  28. ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  29. ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  30. ↑ Danckwerts Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/. f. ?.
  31. ↑ Danckwerts Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/. f. ?.
  32. ↑ Kerr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/137. f. 136.
  33. ↑ Kerr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/137. f. 136.
  34. ↑ Loveband Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/84. f. 84.
  35. ↑ Loveband Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/84. f. 84. He left on transfer to Vesper.
  36. ↑ Loveband Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/84. f. 84.
  37. ↑ Loveband Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/84. f. 84.
  38. ↑ Lilley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/24. f. 24.
  39. ↑ Lilley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/24. f. 24.
  40. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 293.
  41. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 293.
  42. ↑ Troubridge Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/117/65. f. 65.
  43. ↑ Howe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/168. f. 168.
  44. ↑ McCoy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/123/145. f. 145.
  45. ↑ McCoy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/123/145. f. 145.
  46. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  47. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  48. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  49. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  50. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  51. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  52. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  53. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  54. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  55. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  56. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  57. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.

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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