H.M.S. Griffin (1935)

H.M.S. Griffin (1935)
Pendant Number:	H31
Builder:	Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow^[1]
Launched:	15 Aug, 1935^[2]
Broken up:	1946^[3]

H.M.S. Griffin was one of thirty-five "G","H" and "I" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Griffin collided with one of her tugs as she left Barrow-in-Furness under tow to trials on 5 January, 1936. The damage was slight, and repairs were to take less than a week.^[4]

Commissioned on 6 March, 1936 for service with the First Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.^[5]

On 20 March 1943, Griffin was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and was renamed H.M.C.S. Ottawa.

Ottawa was decommissioned on 31 October 1945 and scrapped early the next year.

Captains

Lieutenant-Commander Graham H. Stokes, 6 March, 1936^[6]
Lieutenant-Commander John Lee-Barber, 10 January, 1939^[7] – 19 November, 1941^[8]
Captain Hugh St. L. Nicolson, 19 November, 1941^[9] – 24 May, 1942^[10]
Lieutenant in Command Paul M. Whatley, 24 May, 1942^[11] – October, 1942^[12]
Lieutenant-Commander Arthur N. Rowell, October, 1942^[13] – late 1942^[14]

Footnotes

↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 39.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 39.
↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 39.
↑ "New Destroyer Damaged." The Times (London, England), January 6, 1936, Issue 47264, p.16.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 246.
↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), January 11, 1936, Issue 47269, p.6.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
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