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Revision as of 15:52, 5 September 2016

H.M.S. Greenwich (1915)
Pendant Number: CA (Jan, 1916)
C6 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Dobson[2]
Launched: 5 Jul, 1915[3]
Commissioned: 10 Jun, 1916[4]
Sold: 11 Jul, 1946[5]

H.M.S. Greenwich was purchased while under construction and completed by Swan Hunter as a depot ship.

Service

Upon commissioning in mid-1916, Greenwich went to Scapa Flow to serve the Fourteenth Destroyer Flotilla. She remained there through the end of the war, maintaining "M" class and later model destroyers.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment given.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  4. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  7. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 394s.
  8. Rowley-Conwy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/83. ff. 83, 232.
  9. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 394c.
  10. Rowley-Conwy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/83. ff. 83, 232.
  11. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 804.
  12. The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 781.
  13. Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  14. Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  15. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
  16. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 242.
  17. Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
  18. Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
  19. Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
  20. Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
  21. Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
  22. Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
  23. Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  24. Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  25. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
  26. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
  27. Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  28. Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).