Claude Baynard Evans

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Commander Claude Baynard Evans, R.N., Retired (17 February, 1885 – 13 November, 1941) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Borin in Ewell Grove, Ewell, the son of Sir David Evans, K.C.M.G..

Evans was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 30 June, 1907.

Evans was appointed in command of the destroyer Nith on 27 March, 1913.[1]

On 1 August, 1914, Evans was appointed in command of the destroyer Liffey.[2]

Evans was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 30 June, 1915. Four months after the loss of his command Primula on 1 March, 1916, Evans began a year as Assistant to Inspector of Merchant Shipping. On 19 June, 1917, he was sent to work at the Trade Division at the Admiralty.

Evans was placed on the Retired List as medically unfit due to chronic gastritis on 22 May, 1919 but continued at the Trade Division until 1 October, 1919.

Evans was promoted to the rank of Commander (retired) on 17 February, 1925.

World War II

Evans was called up in late August 1939 and sent to Burnham-on-Sea Radio Station for censorship duties, vice Leslie.

He was surveyed 11 December 1940 and found unfit for sea service.

The second page of his ADM 196/50 Service Record is found with that of George Pilkington.

See Also

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Guy P. Bowles
Captain of H.M. T.B. 053
31 May, 1910[3] – 2 Aug, 1910[4]
Succeeded by
Thomas C. MacGill
Preceded by
Owen T. H. Phillips
Captain of H.M.S. Nith
27 Mar, 1913[5] – Jul, 1914
Succeeded by
Malcolm L. Goldsmith
Preceded by
Herbert R. L. Edwards
Captain of H.M.S. Liffey
1 Aug, 1914[6][7] – 4 Dec, 1915
Succeeded by
Cuthbert P. Blake
Preceded by
New Command
Captain of H.M.S. Primula
18 Dec, 1915 – 29 Feb, 1916[8]
Succeeded by
Vessel Lost

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 350.
  2. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 348.
  3. Evans Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/39. f. ?.
  4. Evans Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/39. f. ?.
  5. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 350.
  6. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Monday, Jul 20, 1914; pg. 6; Issue 40580.
  7. The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 395l.
  8. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 54.