H.M.S. Somme (1918)

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H.M.S. Somme (1918)
Pendant Number: G.52 (Nov 1918)[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Ordered: Apr, 1917 (1st Order)[3]
Launched: 10 Sep, 1918[4]
Completed: 4 Nov, 1918[5]
Sold:

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

Service

Somme was recommissioned on 15 December, 1920.[6]

She re-commissioned at Portsmouth with 2/5ths crew on 4 December, 1923 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet.[7].

Somme was re-commissioned at the Nore on 7 January, 1927 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla on the China Station.[8]

The ship re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 1 October, 1929 for continued service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla.[9]

In November 1929, she collided with Stormcloud through circumstances a Court of Enquiry determined was a lack of through and consideration on the part of the other ship's commanding officer.[10]

In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10. Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.[11]

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. 865.
  7. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 271.
  8. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 270.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 269.
  10. Handley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/154/331. f. 331.
  11. "Warships' Bells." The Times (London, England), 12 June 1933, p. 11.
  12. Hopkins Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/107. f. ?.
  13. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 909.
  14. Hopkins Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/107. f. ?. Somme is not indicted in his Service Record AT ALL, but the Navy List and Spurgin's data suggest this end date is certain.
  15. Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
  16. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 865.
  17. Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
  18. Archer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/216. f. 586.
  19. Archer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/216. f. 586.
  20. Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/8. f. 8.
  21. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 813.
  22. Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/8. f. 8.
  23. Durnford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/129. f. 128.
  24. Durnford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/129. f. 128.
  25. Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  26. Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  27. De Winton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/105. f. 105.
  28. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 270.
  29. De Winton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/105. f. 105.
  30. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 270.
  31. Crossley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/99. f. ?.
  32. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 270.
  33. Crewe-Read Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/38. f. 38.
  34. Crewe-Read Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/38. f. 38.

Bibliography


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