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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Walter Durnford|nick=John W. Durnford|appt=October, 1923<ref>Durnford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/53/129.|D7605540}} f. 128.</ref>|end=12 November, 1923<ref>Durnford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/53/129.|D7605540}} f. 128.</ref>}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Francis Stephen Walter de Winton|nick=Francis S. W. de Winton|appt=9 March, 1925{{NLJul27|p. 270}}|end=1929{{NMI|November 2, 1934, Issue 46901, p.4}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Graham Crossley|nick=John G. Crossley|appt=February, 1929{{NLFeb29|p. 270}}|end=3 October, 1930<ref>Crossley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/99.|D7615897}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Graham Crossley|nick=John G. Crossley|appt=February, 1929{{NLFeb29|p. 270}}|end=3 October, 1930<ref>Crossley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/99.|D7615897}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Philip Norman Walter|nick=Philip N. Walter|appt=1 August, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 270}}|end=17 December, 1931}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Philip Norman Walter|nick=Philip N. Walter|appt=1 August, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 270}}|end=17 December, 1931}}

Revision as of 20:55, 2 July 2019

H.M.S. Somme (1918)
Pendant Number: G.52 (Nov 1918)[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Ordered: Apr, 1917 (1st Order)[3]
Launched: 10 Sep, 1918[4]
Completed: 4 Nov, 1918[5]
Sold:

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

Service

Somme was recommissioned on 15 December, 1920.[6]

She re-commissioned at Portsmouth with 2/5ths crew on 4 December, 1923 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet.[7].

Re-commissioned at the Nore on 7 January, 1927 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla on the China Station.[8]

Re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 1 October, 1929 for continued service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
  5. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 311.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 865.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 271.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 270.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 269.
  10. ↑ Hopkins Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/107. f. ?.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 909.
  12. ↑ Hopkins Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/107. f. ?. Somme is not indicted in his Service Record AT ALL, but the Navy List and Spurgin's data suggest this end date is certain.
  13. ↑ Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 865.
  15. ↑ Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
  16. ↑ Archer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/216. f. 586.
  17. ↑ Archer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/216. f. 586.
  18. ↑ Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/8. f. 8.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 813.
  20. ↑ Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/8. f. 8.
  21. ↑ Durnford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/129. f. 128.
  22. ↑ Durnford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/129. f. 128.
  23. ↑ Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  24. ↑ Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 270.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 270.
  27. ↑ Crossley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/99. f. ?.
  28. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 270.

Bibliography


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