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Re-commissioned on 15 September, 1924.{{NLApr25|p. 242}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Nicholas Edward Archdale|nick=Nicholas E. Archdale|appt=28 February, 1919{{NLDec19|p. 781}}<ref>Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>|end=11 January, 1921<ref>Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Nicholas Edward Archdale|nick=Nicholas E. Archdale|appt=28 February, 1919{{NLDec19|p. 781}}<ref>Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>|end=11 January, 1921<ref>Archdale Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/90.|}} f. 187.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Gilbert George Pearse Hewett|nick=Gilbert G. P. Hewett|appt=12 January, 1921{{NLJan21|p. 782}}|end=17 August, 1922}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Gilbert George Pearse Hewett|nick=Gilbert G. P. Hewett|appt=12 January, 1921{{NLJan21|p. 782}}|end=17 August, 1922}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alexander Riall Wadham Woods|nick=Alexander R. W. Woods|appt=17 August, 1922{{NLJul24|p. 242}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alexander Riall Wadham Woods|nick=Alexander R. W. Woods|appt=17 August, 1922<ref>Woods Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/204.|}} f. 208.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 242}}|end=22 August, 1924<ref>Woods Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45/204.|}} f. 208.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Macaulay Lecky|nick=Arthur M. Lecky|appt=22 August, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 242}}<ref>Lecky Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/54.|D7603561}}  f. 54.</ref>|end=12 April, 1926<ref>Lecky Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/54.|D7603561}}  f. 54.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Macaulay Lecky|nick=Arthur M. Lecky|appt=22 August, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 242}}<ref>Lecky Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/54.|D7603561}}  f. 54.</ref>|end=12 April, 1926<ref>Lecky Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/54.|D7603561}}  f. 54.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis Walter Despard Twigg|nick=Francis W. D. Twigg|appt=20 December, 1925<ref>Twigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 572.</ref>|end=11 June, 1926<ref>Twigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 572.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis Walter Despard Twigg|nick=Francis W. D. Twigg|appt=20 December, 1925<ref>Twigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 572.</ref>|end=11 June, 1926<ref>Twigg Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|}} f. 572.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Trevenen Wilson|nick=Charles T. Wilson|appt=11 June, 1926<ref>Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/52.|}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLJul27|p. 243}}|end=15 August, 1927<ref>Wilson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/52.|}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe|nick=Lewis G. E. Crabbe|appt=16 August, 1927<ref>Crabbe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/168.|D7603675}} f. 169.</ref>|end=15 October, 1929<ref>Crabbe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/168.|D7603675}} f. 169.</ref>|note=and as Assistant Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Rosyth and King's Harbour Master, Rosyth}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe|nick=Lewis G. E. Crabbe|appt=16 August, 1927<ref>Crabbe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/168.|D7603675}} f. 169.</ref>|end=15 October, 1929<ref>Crabbe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/168.|D7603675}} f. 169.</ref>|note=and as Assistant Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Rosyth and King's Harbour Master, Rosyth}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Jermyn Landon|nick=Arthur J. Landon|appt=15 October, 1929<ref>Landon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|end=17 April, 1931<ref>Landon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|ass=15 October, 1929<ref>Landon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|note=and as Assistant Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Rosyth and King's Harbour Master, Rosyth}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Jermyn Landon|nick=Arthur J. Landon|appt=15 October, 1929<ref>Landon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|end=17 April, 1931<ref>Landon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|ass=15 October, 1929<ref>Landon Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/35.|D7604134}} f. 18.</ref>|note=and as Assistant Captain (D) Reserve Fleet, Rosyth and King's Harbour Master, Rosyth}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=1 May, 1931<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|end=1 August, 1933<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=1 May, 1931{{NLJul31|p. 243}}<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|end=1 August, 1933<ref>Boxer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/83|}} f. 214.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master, [[Rosyth]]}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Albert John Robertson|nick=Albert J. Robertson|appt=1 August, 1933|end=1 August, 1935|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Albert John Robertson|nick=Albert J. Robertson|appt=1 August, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 244}}|end=1 August, 1935|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Montague George Bentinck Legge|nick=Montague G. B. Legge|appt=1 August, 1935<ref>Legge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/170.|D7604074}} f. 574.</ref>|end=4 August, 1936<ref>Legge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/170.|D7604074}} f. 574.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Montague George Bentinck Legge|nick=Montague G. B. Legge|appt=1 August, 1935<ref>Legge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/170.|D7604074}} f. 574.</ref>|end=4 August, 1936<ref>Legge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/170.|D7604074}} f. 574.</ref>|note=and as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet & King's Harbour Master}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Heathcote Gordon Walker|nick=Francis H. G. Walker|appt=4 August, 1936<ref>Walker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/73.}} f. 79.</ref>|end=January, 1937<ref>Walker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/73.}} f. 79.</ref>|note=died in command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Francis Heathcote Gordon Walker|nick=Francis H. G. Walker|appt=4 August, 1936<ref>Walker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/73.}} f. 79.</ref>|end=January, 1937<ref>Walker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/73.}} f. 79.</ref>|note=died in command}}

Latest revision as of 13:16, 28 December 2021

H.M.S. Greenwich (1915)
Pendant Number: CA (Jan, 1916)
C6 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Dobson[2]
Launched: 5 Jul, 1915[3]
Commissioned: 10 Jun, 1916[4]
Sold: 11 Jul, 1946[5]

H.M.S. Greenwich was purchased while under construction and completed by Swan Hunter as a destroyer depot ship.

Service

Upon commissioning in mid-1916, Greenwich went to Scapa Flow to serve the Fourteenth Destroyer Flotilla. She remained there through the end of the war, maintaining "M" class and later model destroyers.[6]

Re-commissioned on 15 September, 1924.[7]

The ship was reduced to Reserve on 21 December, 1925.[8] She was re-commissioned with special complement on 16 August, 1927.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment given.

Lecky and Twigg seem to overlap.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  3. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 295.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 242.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 243.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 243.
  10. ↑ Godfrey Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/235. f. 235.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 394s.
  12. ↑ Godfrey Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/44/235. f. 235.
  13. ↑ Rowley-Conwy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/83. ff. 83, 232.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 394c.
  15. ↑ Rowley-Conwy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/83. ff. 83, 232.
  16. ↑ Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 804.
  18. ↑ Kiddle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/250. f. 250.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 781.
  20. ↑ Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  21. ↑ Archdale Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90. f. 187.
  22. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 782.
  23. ↑ Woods Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/204. f. 208.
  24. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 242.
  25. ↑ Woods Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/45/204. f. 208.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 242.
  27. ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
  28. ↑ Lecky Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/54. f. 54.
  29. ↑ Twigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 572.
  30. ↑ Twigg Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 572.
  31. ↑ Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/52. f. ?.
  32. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 243.
  33. ↑ Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/52. f. ?.
  34. ↑ Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
  35. ↑ Crabbe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/168. f. 169.
  36. ↑ Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
  37. ↑ Landon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/35. f. 18.
  38. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 243.
  39. ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  40. ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  41. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 244.
  42. ↑ Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
  43. ↑ Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
  44. ↑ Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
  45. ↑ Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/73. f. 79.
  46. ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.
  47. ↑ Boxer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/83 f. 214.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).

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