H.M.S. Scimitar (1918)

H.M.S. Scimitar (1918)
Pendant Number:	G.41 (Apr 1918)
Builder:	John Brown & Company
Ordered:	Apr, 1917 (1st Order)
Launched:	27 Feb, 1918
Completed:	13 Apr, 1918
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H.M.S. Scimitar was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

She reduced to Reserve Fleet at Devonport on 14 August, 1920.

Paid off to Maintenance Reserve in Rosyth on 6 October, 1927.

She was commissioned at Rosyth on 2 June, 1931 and completed to special complement at Chatham on 1 October, 1931.

Reduced to reserve at The Nore on 9 September, 1936.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander Christopher J. F. Eddis, 19 March, 1918 – 19 October, 1918  (died of influenza)
• Lieutenant-Commander James R. C. Cavendish, 21 October, 1918 – 6 February, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander Cuthbert H. Heath-Caldwell, 6 February, 1919 – December, 1919
• Lieutenant-Commander John H. Jauncey, 31 December, 1919 – 1 February, 1920
• Lieutenant in Command Edward Eastwick-Field, 21 June, 1920  (temporary, for Reserve Fleet Exercises)
• Lieutenant-Commander Robert A. Startin, 10 July, 1924 – c. 20 August, 1924^[Inference]  (temporary, for Reserve Fleet Exercises)
• Lieutenant Ninian G. R. Crawford, 1 June, 1931  (not noted as being "in command")
• Lieutenant-Commander John Bostock, May, 1938
• Lieutenant in Command Mark Thornton, 7 June, 1938 – 26 February, 1940
• Lieutenant in Command Robert D. Franks, 26 February, 1940 – 20 June, 1942
• Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. Charles G. Cuthbertson, 20 June, 1942 – July, 1943
• Lieutenant in Command Gilbert C. Potter, 1 July, 1943 – 18 December, 1943
• Lieutenant R.N.V.R. in Command Philip Archer-Shee, 18 December, 1943 – October, 1944
• Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander R.N.V.R. Allan A. Gotelee, October, 1944 – January, 1945

See Also

• Wikipedia