H.M.S. Torbay (1918)

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H.M.S. Torbay (1918)
Pendant Number: F.35 (Jun1919)[1]
Builder: John I. Thornycroft & Company[2]
Ordered: Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)[3]
Launched: 6 Mar, 1918[4]
Completed: 17 Jul, 1919[5]
Sold:

H.M.S. Torbay was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending. She was completed after the war.

Service

Torbay reduced to Reserve at Portsmouth on 16 August, 1920.[6]

Torbay was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1928, commissioning at Portsmouth on 1 March as H.M.C.S. Champlain. She served a training ship until 1936.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 75.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 85.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 85.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 75.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 275.
  7. Bignell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/117. f. 521.
  8. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 855.
  9. Bignell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/117. f. 521.
  10. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 876.
  11. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 299.
  12. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 299.

Bibliography


"S" Class Destroyer
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Spear Spindrift Serapis Serene Sesame
Strenuous Stronghold Sturdy Trojan Truant
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