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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Leslie Graham Adams|nick=William L. G. Adams|appt=4 May, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 293}}|end=mid 1935}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Leslie Graham Adams|nick=William L. G. Adams|appt=4 May, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 293}}|end=mid 1935}}

Revision as of 22:16, 21 June 2021

H.M.S. Wolfhound (1918)
Pendant Number: F.18 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 14 Mar, 1918[4]
Completed: 27 Mar, 1918[5]
Sold: 18 Feb, 1948[6]

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

Service

Wolfhound was commissioned at Rosyth on 15 September, 1920.[7]

She was re-commissioned at Chatham on 22 August, 1922 for service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Atlantic Fleet.[8] She would serve with this formation through at least mid-1931.

Re-commissioned at the Nore on 21 May, 1926.[9]

Commissioned at Sheerness on 5 November, 1928.[10]

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 24 April, 1931 for service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Atlantic Fleet.[11]

Re-commissioned at standard notice on 29 June, 1935.[12]

She was reduced to special complement on 2 June 1936 for service with the First Anti-Submarine Flotilla out of Portland.[13]

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. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 901.
  8. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 290.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 290.
  10. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 290.
  11. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 290.
  12. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 293.
  13. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 293.
  14. The Navy List. (May, 1919). p. 945.
  15. Tovey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 131.
  16. Tovey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. 131.
  17. The Navy List. (July, 1919). p. 945.
  18. Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. ?.
  19. Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. ?.
  20. Longford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/15. f. 15.
  21. The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 901.
  22. Longford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/15. f. 15.
  23. Stileman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/191. f. 559.
  24. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 901.
  25. Stileman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/191. f. 559.
  26. Cavaye Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/100. f. 99.
  27. Cavaye Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/100. f. 99.
  28. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 845.
  29. Wrey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/62. f. 420.
  30. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 290.
  31. Wrey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/62. f. 420.
  32. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 290. 2 May given here.
  33. Richards Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/119/41. f. 41.
  34. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 290.
  35. Richards Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/119/41. f. 41.
  36. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 293.
  37. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 293.
  38. "Destroyers from Gibraltar." The Times (London, England), 27 Apr. 1936, p. 22.
  39. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 293.
  40. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Monday, April 4, 1938, Issue 47960, p.25.
  41. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Monday, April 4, 1938, Issue 47960, p.25.
  42. Uboat.net page on the man.
  43. Uboat.net page on the man.
  44. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  45. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  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.

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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