H.M.S. Swallow (1918)

H.M.S. Swallow (1918)
Pendant Number:	F.73 (Nov 1918)
Builder:	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Ordered:	Apr, 1917 (1st Order)
Launched:	1 Aug, 1918
Completed:	27 Sep, 1918
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H.M.S. Swallow was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

Swallow re-commissioned at Malta on 13 September, 1920.

Swallow arrived at Sheerness with Mackay, Sportive and Splendid on 31 October, 1923.

She was re-commissioned at Chatham with 2/5ths crew on 4 December, 1923.

Swallow paid off into Reserve at Chatham on 29 January, 1926.

She paid off into Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth on 30 March, 1928.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander Edye K. Boddam-Whetham, 1 September, 1918 – January, 1920
• Lieutenant in Command Edmund H. Hopkinson, 26 November, 1918 – 31 December, 1918  (temporary, while Boddam-Whetham was sick)
• Lieutenant-Commander Edward C. Denison, January, 1921 – September, 1922^[Inference]
• Lieutenant-Commander Edward T. W. Church, September, 1922 – October, 1923
• Lieutenant-Commander Walter F. Smithwick, October, 1923 – 5 November, 1923
• Lieutenant-Commander Gilbert C. Pelly, 5 November, 1923 – 27 August, 1924
• Lieutenant-Commander Noel L. Veresmith, 22 August, 1924 – 13 January, 1925
• Lieutenant-Commander John G. Crossley, 13 January, 1925 – 12 March, 1925
• Lieutenant-Commander Arthur L. Pears, 10 March, 1925 – September, 1925  (to Sepoy on exchange)
• Lieutenant-Commander Joseph Horsfield, 28 February, 1928 – 22 June, 1930  (for passage to Rosyth, but may have lasted to 1930)

See Also

• Wikipedia