H.M.S. Sesame (1918)

H.M.S. Sesame (1918)
Pendant Number:	F.5A (Apr 1919)
Builder:	William Denny & Brothers
Ordered:	Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)
Launched:	30 Dec, 1918
Completed:	28 Mar, 1919
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H.M.S. Sesame was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

She reduced to Reserve at Devonport on 18 September, 1920.

Commissioned on 26 March, 1923. By early 1926, she was stationed in Irish waters.

Reduced to three-fifths complement on 16 January, 1926.

Commissioned on 9 April, 1929 for service with the Atlantic Fleet.

Reduced to Reserve at Portsmouth on 11 July, 1932.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant in Command John Hassard-Short, 12 March, 1919 – 22 March, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command Thomas B. Fellowes, 22 March, 1919 – 7 July, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Alexander L. Fletcher, 1 October, 1919 – 7 October, 1920
• Lieutenant-Commander Herbert M. Ellis, 26 March, 1923 – 15 July, 1923
• Lieutenant-Commander Harold O. Joyce, 15 July, 1923 – February, 1925
• Lieutenant-Commander (I, Sw.) Torkel Lundholm, 17 February, 1925 – 31 August, 1926
• Lieutenant-Commander John S. Prescott-Roberts, 31 August, 1926 – 1 October, 1928
• Lieutenant-Commander James C. Colvill, 1 October, 1928 – 22 April, 1929
• Commander Philip G. Wodehouse, 22 April, 1929 – 29 May, 1929
• Commander Hubert Vaughan-Jones, 27 May, 1929 – 2 January, 1930
• Lieutenant-Commander William A. R. Cartwright, 2 January, 1930 – 13 April, 1931
• Lieutenant-Commander Errol C. L. Turner, 12 April, 1931 – 19 September, 1932

See Also

• Wikipedia