H.M.S. Tourmaline (1919)

H.M.S. Tourmaline (1919)
Pendant Number:	D.83 (Dec 1919)
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Ordered:	Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)
Launched:	12 Apr, 1919
Completed:	Dec, 1919
Sold:

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

Service

Tourmaline completed to full crew at Portsmouth, 18 December, 1919.

On 17 January 1921, Tourmaline collided with Turquoise off Ryde Pier as the two departed Portland to join the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla for a three month cruise with the Atlantic Fleet. The two had to go to Portsmouth to await repairs.

Tourmaline was re-commissioned at Portsmouth with reduced crew on 29 November, 1923. By March 1925, she was in service in the Mediterranean.

She re-commissioned at Gibraltar for service as leader of the Gibraltar Local Defence Flotilla on 15 May, 1926.

Re-commissioned at Gibraltar for continued service with the Gibraltar Local Defence Flotilla on 24 November, 1928.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander John I. Hallett, 13 November, 1919 – 28 November, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command Donal S. McGrath, c. December, 1919 – August, 1921
• Lieutenant-Commander Patrick Butter, 5 August, 1921 – 13 November, 1921
• Lieutenant-Commander Charles E. Hamond, 13 November, 1921 – 22 February, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander Donal S. McGrath, 21 November, 1922 – c. 13 December, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander Ralph W. Wilkinson, 13 December, 1922 – 27 November, 1913
• Commander Alexander L. Fletcher, January, 1924 – March, 1926
• Commander Richard Harter, 1 March, 1926 – 26 September, 1926
• Commander John Fawcett, 21 September, 1926 – April, 1928  (and in command of Gibraltar Local Defence Flotilla from 1 January, 1927)
• Commander James C. J. Soutter, April, 1929 – January, 1929
• Commander Henry V. Hudson, 29 January, 1929 – 6 January, 1930  (and in command of Gibraltar Local Defence Flotilla, undated)
• Commander Eric P. Vivian, 16 December, 1929 – August, 1931  (and in command of Gibraltar Local Defence Flotilla)

See Also

• Wikipedia