H.M.S. Sikh (1918)

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H.M.S. Sikh (1918)
Pendant Number: H.94 (Jun 1918)
D.68 (?)[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Ordered: Apr, 1917 (1st Order)[3]
Launched: 7 May, 1918[4]
Completed: 29 Jun, 1918[5]
Sold:

H.M.S. Sikh was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

Sikh recommissioned at Chatham on 28 May, 1919.[6]

She was re-commissioned at Chatham on 21 September, 1923 for service with the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet.[7]

Reduced to Reserve at the Nore on 9 December, 1925.[8]

Following an earlier round of a flotilla leader and seventeen destroyers, Sikh was named in September 1925 as one of an additional fifteen destroyers to be scrapped in the fiscal year starting 1 April, 1926.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
  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. 74.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 311.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 864.
  7. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 270.
  8. The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 270.
  9. "More Destroyers to be Scrapped." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, September 22, 1925, Issue 44073, p.7.
  10. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 907.
  11. Campbell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/278. f. 293.
  12. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 864.
  13. Holden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/274. Unnumbered folio.
  14. Holden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/274. Unnumbered folio.
  15. Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
  16. Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
  17. Perryman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/117. f. 125.
  18. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 812.
  19. Perryman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/117. f. 125.

Bibliography


"S" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Simoom Scimitar Scotsman Scout Shark
Sparrowhawk Splendid Sabre Saladin Sikh
Sirdar Somme Success Shamrock Shikari
Senator Sepoy Seraph Swallow Swordsman
Steadfast Sterling Tribune Trinidad Tactician
Tara Tasmania Tattoo Scythe Seabear
Seafire Searcher Seawolf Sportive Stalwart
Tilbury Tintagel Sardonyx Stonehenge Stormcloud
Spear Spindrift Serapis Serene Sesame
Strenuous Stronghold Sturdy Trojan Truant
Trusty Turbulent Tenedos Thanet Thracian
Thornycroft Specials
Speedy Tobago Torbay Toreador Tourmaline
Yarrow Specials
Torch Tomahawk Tryphon Tumult Turquoise
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