H.M.S. Sportive (1918)

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H.M.S. Sportive (1918)
Pendant Number: G.48 (Jan 1919)[1]
Builder: Swan Hunter[2]
Ordered: Jun, 1917 (2nd Order)[3]
Launched: 19 Sep, 1918[4]
Completed: Dec, 1918[5]
Sold:

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

Service

Sportive recommissioned at Malta on 17 June, 1920.[6]

Godfrey Ratcliffe Chambers took command of Sportive for passage to Rosyth in early 1928. Once there, she went into Maintenance Reserve on 30 March, 1928.[7] She would remain in this disposition until being sold in 1936.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 75.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 85.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 85.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 75.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 311.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 867.
  7. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 270.
  8. Gibson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/157. ff. 513, 241.
  9. Gibson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/157. ff. 513, 241.
  10. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 911.
  11. Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  12. Knox-Little Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/119. f. 127.
  13. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 866.
  14. Knox-Little Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/119. f. 127. Date and month illegible.
  15. Binmore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/202. f. 214.
  16. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 814.
  17. Binmore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/202. f. 214.
  18. Gardner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/60. f. 66.
  19. Gardner Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/60. f. 66.
  20. Chambers Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/224. f. 236.
  21. Chambers Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/224. f. 236.

Bibliography


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