H.M.S. Valentine (1917)
H.M.S. Valentine (1917) | |
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Pendant Number: | F.99 (1917) F.30 (Jan 1918)[1] |
Builder: | Cammell Laird[2] |
Launched: | 24 Mar, 1917[3] |
Stranded: | 15 May, 1940[4] |
Fate: | after air attack[5] |
H.M.S. Valentine was one of five "V" class flotilla leaders.
Service
Valentine was assigned to be a second flotilla leader for the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla in July, 1917.[6]
She was re-commissioned on 15 August, 1920.[7]
Valentine re-commissioned at Chatham on 15 September, 1924 for service in the Second Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[8]
She was paid off into Dockyard Control at the Nore on 13 May, 1927.[9]
Valentine re-commissioned at Sheerness on 19 September, 1927 for service in the Second Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[10]
Re-commissioned at Malta on 10 November, 1930 for continued service in the Second Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[11]
She commissioned at Chatham on 8 July, 1932.[12]
The ship was re-commissioned at Devonport on 18 April, 1933 for service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla.[13]
Valentine paid off into Reserve on 22 December, 1934.[14]
She re-commissioned at Devonport on 21 May, 1936 and was placed into the Reserve Fleet.[15]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander Charles A. Fremantle, 28 May, 1917[16][17] – 20 March, 1919[18]
- Commander Aubrey T. Tillard, 17 January, 1919[19][20] – 7 July, 1919[21]
- Commander Evelyn C. O. Thomson, 7 July, 1919[22][23] – 28 December, 1920[24]
- Commander Ernest H. B. Williams, 28 December, 1920[25] – 7 August, 1922[26]
- Commander Henry P. Boxer, 7 August, 1922[27] – 6 April, 1923[28]
- Commander James R. C. Cavendish, 6 April, 1923[29] – 3 January, 1924[30]
- Commander John I. Hallett, 3 January, 1924[31] – 28 August, 1924[32]
- Commander Claude L. Bate, 28 August, 1924[33][34] – August, 1925[35]
- Commander Arthur E. H. Wright, 27 July, 1925[36] – 27 July, 1927[37]
- Commander Geoffrey S. Holden, c. late 1927[38]
- Commander Henry H. Bousfield, 2 May, 1928 – 13 August, 1928
- Commander William E. B. Magee, 24 August, 1928[39] – May, 1929[40]
- Captain Francis R. Barry, – 19 April, 1930 (and in command of Fourth Division, Second Destroyer Flotilla)
- Captain Richard J. R. Scott, 19 April, 1930 – late April, 1931[41] (and in command of Fourth Division, Second Destroyer Flotilla)
- Captain William T. Makeig-Jones, 9 April, 1931[42] – 1931 (and in command of Fourth Division, Second Destroyer Flotilla)
- Captain Denis W. Boyd, 12 April, 1932[43] – mid April, 1933[Inference]
- Captain Robert C. Woollerton, 19 April, 1932[44] (some confusion here)
- Commander Herbert A. C. Lane, 18 April, 1933[45] – c. December 1934[46] (left to Fearless upon her commissioning)
- Commander Reginald F. Morice, 6 September, 1935[47] – 30 December, 1935[48]
- Commander George F. Stevens-Guille, 28 December, 1935[49] – 25 May,1936[50]
- Commander Thomas A. Hussey, 28 April, 1938[51] – 11 October, 1938[52]
- Commander Herbert J. Buchanan, 1 February, 1940[53] – 15 May, 1940[54] (ship lost under his command)
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 72.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 72.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 72.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 72.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 72.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1917). p. 12.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 879.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 277.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 276.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 276.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 276.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 279.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 280.
- ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 281.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 281.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 398p.
- ↑ Fremantle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 441.
- ↑ Fremantle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 441.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 922a.
- ↑ Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
- ↑ Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 879.
- ↑ Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. ?.
- ↑ Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. ?.
- ↑ Williams Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/123. f. 528[?].
- ↑ Williams Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/123. f. 528[?].
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 825.
- ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
- ↑ Cavendish Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/19. ff. 179, 235.
- ↑ Cavendish Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/19. ff. 179, 235. Also inferring from John Ignatius Hallett's appointment.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 277.
- ↑ Hallett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/214. f. 281.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 277.
- ↑ Bate Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/180. f. 585.
- ↑ Bate Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/180. f. 585.
- ↑ Wright Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/170. ff. ?, 177.
- ↑ Wright Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/170. ff. ?, 177.
- ↑ Holden Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/274. f. ?.
- ↑ Magee Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/251. f. 521.
- ↑ Magee Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/251. f. 521.
- ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 22 Apr. 1931, p. 4.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 276.
- ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, February 24, 1932, Issue 46065, p.18.
- ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, April 12, 1932, Issue 46105, p.20.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 281.
- ↑ Lane Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/62. f. 62.
- ↑ Morice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/145. f. 147.
- ↑ Morice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/145. f. 147.
- ↑ Stevens-Guille Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/121/130. f. 130.
- ↑ Stevens-Guille Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/121/130. f. 130.
- ↑ Hussey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/120/150. f. 150. The month could be September.
- ↑ Hussey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/120/150. f. 150.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
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