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==Service==
 
==Service==
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Commissioned at Portsmouth on 2 June, 1931 for duty with the {{UK-DF|4}} in the Mediterranean{{NLJul31|p. 218}} that would extend until at least mid 1934{{NLJul34|p. 218}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Boadicea''" nat=UK>
 
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Boadicea''" nat=UK>
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Eric John Shelley|nick=Eric J. Shelley|appt=|end=8 August, 1931<ref>Hughes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/195.|D7605280}} f. 563.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Charles Fraser Harrington Churchill|nick=Charles F. H. Churchill|appt=22 December, 1930|end=25 April, 1931|note=for trials|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Eric John Shelley|nick=Eric J. Shelley|appt=24 April, 1931{{NLJul31|p. 218}}|end=8 August, 1931<ref>Hughes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/195.|D7605280}} f. 563.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Herbert Masterman Hughes|nick=Herbert M. Hughes|appt=8 August, 1931<ref>Hughes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/195.|D7605280}} f. 563.</ref>|end=28 November, 1932<ref>Hughes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/195.|D7605280}} f. 563.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Herbert Masterman Hughes|nick=Herbert M. Hughes|appt=8 August, 1931<ref>Hughes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/195.|D7605280}} f. 563.</ref>|end=28 November, 1932<ref>Hughes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/195.|D7605280}} f. 563.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Leicester Charles Assheton St. John Curzon-Howe|nick=Leicester C. A. St. J. Curzon-Howe|appt=28 November, 1932<ref>Curzon-Howe Service Record.  {{TNA|196/56/163.|}} f. 165.</ref>|end=22 January, 1934<ref>Curzon-Howe Service Record.  {{TNA|196/56/163.|}} f. 165.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lachlan Donald Mackintosh|nick=Lachlan D. Mackintosh|appt=18 October, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 218}}|end=29 August, 1934<ref>Mackintosh Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/119/30.|}} f. 30.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Thomas Edgar Halsey, Third Baronet|nick=Thomas E. Halsey|appt=27 August, 1934<ref>Halsey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/79.|}} f. 79.</ref>|end=12 October, 1936<ref>Halsey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/79.|}} f. 79.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Harvey Forbes Crombie|nick=John H. F. Crombie|appt=21 September, 1936{{NLJul37|p. 219}}|end=12 January, 1938}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=George Bodley Kingdon|nick=George B. Kingdon|appt=16 December, 1938{{NLMay39|p. 262}}|end=mid 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4354}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Michael Wilfred Tomkinson|nick=Michael W. Tomkinson|appt=10 January, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4354}}|end=February, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4354}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CommRN}}|name=Errol Concanon Lloyd Turner|nick=Errol C. L. Turner|appt=February, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4354}}|end=4 July, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4354}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Harold Pitcairn Henderson|nick=Harold P. Henderson|appt=4 July, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4354}}|end=February, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4354}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Francis Cumberland Brodrick|nick=Francis C. Brodrick|appt=February, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4354}}|end=28 December, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4354}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Frederick William Hawkins|nick=Frederick W. Hawkins|appt=28 December, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4354}}|end=13 June, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4354}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=died when ship lost under his command}}
 
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</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
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{{CatShipDestroyer|UK}}
 
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Latest revision as of 11:24, 11 February 2024

H.M.S. Boadicea (1930)
Pendant Number: H65
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie & Company
Laid down: 11 Jul, 1929
Launched: 23 Sep, 1930
Commissioned: 7 Apr, 1931
Bombed: 13 Jun, 1944
H.M.S. Boadicea was one of nine "B" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commissioned at Portsmouth on 2 June, 1931 for duty with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean[1] that would extend until at least mid 1934[2]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 218.
  2. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 218.
  3. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 218.
  4. Hughes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/195. f. 563.
  5. Hughes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/195. f. 563.
  6. Hughes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/195. f. 563.
  7. Curzon-Howe Service Record. The National Archives. 196/56/163. f. 165.
  8. Curzon-Howe Service Record. The National Archives. 196/56/163. f. 165.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 218.
  10. Mackintosh Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/119/30. f. 30.
  11. Halsey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/79. f. 79.
  12. Halsey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/79. f. 79.
  13. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 219.
  14. The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 262.
  15. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  16. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  17. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  18. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  19. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  20. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  21. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  22. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  23. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  24. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  25. Uboat.net page on the ship.


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