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Revision as of 21:22, 14 March 2017
H.M.S. Watchman (1917) | |
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Pendant Number: | G.23(Jan 1918) G.09 (Apr 1918)[1] |
Builder: | John Brown[2] |
Ordered: | December, 1916[3] |
Launched: | 2 Nov, 1917[4] |
Completed: | Jan, 1918[5] |
Sold: | 23 Jul, 1945[6] |
H.M.S. Watchman was one of twenty-one "W" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.
Service
Watchman joined the Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla in February, 1918[7] and and remained with that formation until it was disbanded in March, 1919, at which point she was allocated along with the Eleventh's other "V"s and "W"s to the newly-fashioned First Destroyer Flotilla.[8]
She re-commissioned at Devonport on 9 December, 1920.[9]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander John Fawcett, 15 January, 1918[10] – 15 April, 1919[11]
- Commander William E. B. Magee, April, 1919[12][13] – 23 July, 1921[14]
- Lieutenant-Commander Kenneth B. Millar, 20 July, 1921[15][16] – 18 December, 1923[17]
- Lieutenant-Commander Edward Eastwick-Field, 7 January, 1924[18][19] – December, 1925[20]
- Captain George A. Scott, 1 August, 1929[21] – 31 July, 1931[22]
- Captain Austen G. Lilley, 31 July, 1931[23] – 31 August, 1933[24]
- Acting Commander Vernon Hammersley-Heenan, 17 June, 1939[25] – 1940[26]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
- ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (February, 1918). p. 12.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 11.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 898.
- ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 942.
- ↑ Fawcett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. ?.
- ↑ Magee Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/251. f. 521.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 898.
- ↑ Magee Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/251. f. 521.
- ↑ Millar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/290. f. 305.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 842.
- ↑ Millar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/290. f. 305.
- ↑ Eastwick-Field Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/289. f. 662.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 288.
- ↑ Eastwick-Field Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/289. f. 662.
- ↑ Scott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/294. f. 309.
- ↑ Scott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/294. f. 309.
- ↑ Lilley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/24. f. 24.
- ↑ Lilley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/24. f. 24.
- ↑ Hammersley-Heenan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/289. ff. 303, 304.
- ↑ Hammersley-Heenan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/289. ff. 303, 304.
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