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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Geoffrey Shuttleworth Holden|nick=Geoffrey S. Holden|appt=24 August, 1928<ref>Holden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/274.|}} Unnumbered folio.</ref>|end=12 September, 1928<ref>Holden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/274.|}} Unnumbered folio.</ref>}}
 
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Revision as of 14:18, 7 April 2016

H.M.S. Witherington (1919)
Pendant Number: D.76 (Oct 1919)[1]
Builder: J. S. White[2]
Ordered: Apr, 1918 (2nd Order)[3]
Launched: 16 Apr, 1919[4]
Completed: 10 Oct, 1919[5]
Commissioned: 10 Sep, 1919[6]
Sold: 20 Mar, 1947[7]
Fate: Wrecked 29 Apr, 1947[8]

H.M.S. Witherington was one of fifteen destroyers of the Modified "W" class.

Service

Commissioned on 10 September, 1919.[9]

Equipment

In 1923, she was one of five destroyers and flotilla leader types to be given new, opalescent glass dials with 16 orders for their Chadburn's Torpedo Telegraphs, an increase from the 12 orders in the original design. They required new gearing to match. It was resolved that further installations of this type should occur "as soon as financial conditions permit of it."[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 76.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p.85.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p.85.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 76.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 313.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 901.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 76.
  8. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 76.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 901.
  10. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1923. p. 136.
  11. The Navy List. (February, 1920). p. 901.
  12. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 901.
  13. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 844.
  14. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 290.
  15. Holden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/274. Unnumbered folio.
  16. Holden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/274. Unnumbered folio.

Bibliography


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