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''Edwards'' was commissioned on 24 April, 1919 at [[Boston Navy Yard]] with Commander [[Pierre Light Wilson|Pierre L. Wilson]] in command.
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''Edwards'' was one of the fifty U.S. destroyers transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940, becoming '''H.M.S. ''Buxton'''''.
  
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Pierre Light Wilson|nick=Pierre L. Wilson|appt=24 April, 1919|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} (emergency)|name=Earl Beattie|nick=Earl Beattie|appt=5 October, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|end=5 November, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Buxton''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Wentworth Fitzroy|nick=William W. Fitzroy|appt=5 November, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|end=late 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Buxton''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} (retired)|name=William Anthony Moens|nick=William A. Moens|appt=27 January, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|end=25 July, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Buxton''}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CaptRN}}|name=Edward Murray Conrad Barraclough|nick=Edward M. C. Barraclough|appt=23 April, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|end=28 April, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Buxton''|note=overlap noted}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} (retired)|name=George William Emil Castens|nick=George W. E. Castens|appt=23 April, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|end=28 April, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Buxton''|note=conflict noted}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRNR}}|name=Ismay James Tyson|nick=Ismay J. Tyson|appt=25 July, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|end=mid 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Buxton''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Richard Scott Beveridge|nick=Richard S. Beveridge|appt=mid 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|end=late 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4324}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Buxton''}}
 
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Revision as of 14:15, 23 October 2019

U.S.S. Edwards (1918)
Hull Number: DD-265
Builder: Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Squantum Yard[1]
Laid down: 20 Apr, 1918[2]
Launched: 10 Oct, 1918[3]
Commissioned: 24 Apr, 1919[4]
Decommissioned: 8 Jun, 1922[5]
Sold: Jun, 1945[6]
Fate: as H.M.S. Buxton
U.S.S. Edwards was one of one hundred and fifty-six Clemson Class destroyers completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Edwards was commissioned on 24 April, 1919 at Boston Navy Yard with Commander Pierre L. Wilson in command.

Edwards was one of the fifty U.S. destroyers transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940, becoming H.M.S. Buxton.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 436.
  2. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 436.
  3. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 436.
  4. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 436.
  5. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 436.
  6. ↑ Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 436.
  7. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  8. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  9. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  10. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  11. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  12. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  13. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  14. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  15. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  16. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  17. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  18. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  19. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  20. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.

Bibliography


Clemson Class Destroyer
Clemson Dahlgren Goldsborough Semmes Satterlee
Mason Graham Abel P. Upshur Hunt Welborn C. Wood
George E. Badger Branch Herndon Dallas Chandler
Southard Hovey Long Broome Alden
Smith Thompson Barker Tracy Borie John D. Edwards
Whipple Parrott Edsall MacLeish Simpson
Bulmer McCormick Stewart Pope Peary
Pillsbury Ford Truxtun Paul Jones Hatfield
Brooks Gilmer Fox Kane Humphreys
McFarland James K. Paulding Overton Sturtevant Childs
King Sands Williamson Reuben James Bainbridge
Goff Barry Hopkins Lawrence Belknap
McCook McCalla Rodgers Ingram Bancroft
Welles Aulick Turner Gillis Delphy
McDermut Laub McLanahan Edwards Greene
Ballard Shubrick Bailey Thornton Morris
Tingey Swasey Meade Sinclair McCawley
Moody Henshaw Meyer Doyen Sharkey
Toucey Breck Isherwood Case Lardner
Putnam Worden Flusser Dale Converse
Reid Billingsley Charles Ausburn Osborne Chauncey
Fuller Percival John Francis Burnes Farragut Somers
Stoddert Reno Farquhar Thompson Kennedy
Paul Hamilton William Jones Woodbury S. P. Lee Nicholas
Young Zeilin Yarborough La Vallette Sloat
Wood Shirk Kidder Selfridge Marcus
Mervine Chase Robert Smith Mullany Coghlan
Preston Lamson Bruce Hull Macdonough
Farenholt Sumner Corry Melvin Litchfield
Zane Wasmuth Trever Perry Decatur
  Hulbert Noa William B. Preston  
  Preble Sicard Pruitt  
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