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She reduced to Reserve Complement at Portsmouth on 12 March, 1920.{{NLApr25|p. 270}}
 
She reduced to Reserve Complement at Portsmouth on 12 March, 1920.{{NLApr25|p. 270}}
  
She next commissioned on 16 November, 1926.{{NLJan33|p. 273}}
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She next commissioned on 16 November, 1926.{{NLJul37|p. 275}}
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''Skate'' was the only one of the sixty-two units in her class to survive to World War II, and she served until late in 1944.
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Basil Edward Reinold|nick=Basil E. Reinold|appt=29 January, 1919<ref>Reinold Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/7.|D7603911}} f. 410.</ref>|end=March, 1919<ref>Reinold Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/7.|D7603911}} f. 410.</ref>|note=left on leave to attend to private affairs}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Basil Edward Reinold|nick=Basil E. Reinold|appt=29 January, 1919<ref>Reinold Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/7.|D7603911}} f. 410.</ref>|end=March, 1919<ref>Reinold Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/7.|D7603911}} f. 410.</ref>|note=left on leave to attend to private affairs}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Archibald Anthony Lovett-Cameron|nick=Archibald A. Lovett-Cameron|appt=28 March, 1919{{NLFeb20|p. 865}}|end=January, 1920<ref>Inferring from Izat's data.  L-C's service record not clear.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Archibald Anthony Lovett-Cameron|nick=Archibald A. Lovett-Cameron|appt=28 March, 1919{{NLFeb20|p. 865}}|end=January, 1920<ref>Inferring from Izat's data.  L-C's service record not clear.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} in Command|name=Ralph George Hamilton Izat|nick=Ralph G. H. Izat|appt=January, 1920{{NLMar20|p. 865}}|ass=1 February, 1920{{NLApr20|p. 818}}|end=12 March, 1920<ref>Izat Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/28.|D8116660}} f. 28.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} in Command|name=Ralph George Hamilton Izat|nick=Ralph G. H. Izat|appt=January, 1920{{NavAppts|Saturday, January 24, 1920, Issue 42316, p.6}}{{NLMar20|p. 865}}|ass=1 February, 1920{{NLApr20|p. 818}}|end=12 March, 1920<ref>Izat Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/28.|D8116660}} f. 28.</ref>|note=on {{UK-Oracle}} paying off}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lionel George Foote|nick=Lionel G. Foote|appt=12 April, 1920<ref>Foote Service Records {{TNA|ADM 196/50/53.|D7604465}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLMay20|p. 865}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lionel George Foote|nick=Lionel G. Foote|appt=12 April, 1920<ref>Foote Service Records {{TNA|ADM 196/50/53.|D7604465}} f. ?.</ref>{{NLMay20|p. 865}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} in Command|name=Harold Scott Gillett|nick=Harold S. Gillett|appt=August, 1920{{NLJan21|p. 865}}|end=22 February, 1922<ref>Gillett Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/96/192.|D8116824}} f. 238.</ref>|note=and for a Reserve Group of destroyers}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} in Command|name=Harold Scott Gillett|nick=Harold S. Gillett|appt=August, 1920{{NLJan21|p. 865}}|end=22 February, 1922<ref>Gillett Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/96/192.|D8116824}} f. 238.</ref>|note=and for a Reserve Group of destroyers}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Cecil Wakeford May|nick=Cecil W. May|appt=18 December, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 270}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Cecil Wakeford May|nick=Cecil W. May|appt=18 December, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 270}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Humphrey Gilbert Scott|nick=Humphrey G. Scott|appt=14 November, 1932{{NLJan33|p. 273}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Humphrey Gilbert Scott|nick=Humphrey G. Scott|appt=14 November, 1932{{NLJan33|p. 273}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Bruce Balfour Junor|nick=Bruce B. Junor|appt=14 November, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 275}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Bryan Gouthwaite Scurfield|nick=Bryan G. Scurfield|appt=3 January, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 275}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Charles Woolven Greening|nick=Charles W. Greening|appt=5 April, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 275}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Walter Evershed|nick=Walter Evershed|appt=19 April, 1938{{NavAppts|Monday, April 4, 1938, Issue 47960, p.25}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Arthur Oswald Johnson|nick=Arthur O. Johnson|appt=9 January, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}|end=14 March, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robert Augustus Fell|nick=Robert A. Fell|appt=14 March, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}|end=14 June, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Frederick William Hayden|nick=Frederick W. Hayden|appt=14 June, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}|end=3 July, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Francis Peter Baker|nick=Francis P. Baker|appt=3 July, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}|end=9 February, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=John Smallwood|nick=John Smallwood|appt=9 February, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}|end=April, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Nicholas Marwood Mules|nick=Nicholas M. Mules|appt=April, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}|end=12 May, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} (retired)|name=Alan Westbury Preston|nick=Alan W. Preston|appt=12 May, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}|end=28 May, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=John Charles Rushbrooke|nick=John C. Rushbrooke|appt=28 May, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}|end=9 January, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Harvey Patrick Fleming|nick=Harvey P. Fleming|appt=19 January, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}|end=1 June, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRNVR}}|name=John Hart Macalister|nick=John H. Macalister|appt=1 June, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}|end=late 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4233}}}}
 
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Revision as of 15:54, 20 September 2019

H.M.S. Skate (1917)
Pendant Number: F.62 (Jan 1917)
G.05 (Jan 1918)
F.46 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown & Company[2]
Ordered: Dec 1915 (7th Order)[3][4]
Launched: 11 Jan, 1917[5]
Completed: Feb, 1917[6]
Sold: 4 Mar, 1947[7]

H.M.S. Skate was one of sixty-two "R" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1916-17.

Service

She reduced to Reserve Complement at Portsmouth on 12 March, 1920.[8]

She next commissioned on 16 November, 1926.[9]

Skate was the only one of the sixty-two units in her class to survive to World War II, and she served until late in 1944.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 70.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  4. March. British Destroyers. p. 184.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  6. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 310.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 70.
  8. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 270.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 275.
  10. Hodgson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/124. f. 124.
  11. Hodgson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46/124. f. 124.
  12. Yorke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/260. f. 275.
  13. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 908.
  14. Yorke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/260. f. 275.
  15. Reinold Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/7. f. 410.
  16. Reinold Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/7. f. 410.
  17. The Navy List. (February, 1920). p. 865.
  18. Inferring from Izat's data. L-C's service record not clear.
  19. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Saturday, January 24, 1920, Issue 42316, p.6.
  20. The Navy List. (March, 1920). p. 865.
  21. Izat Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/28. f. 28.
  22. Foote Service Records The National Archives. ADM 196/50/53. f. ?.
  23. The Navy List. (May, 1920). p. 865.
  24. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 865.
  25. Gillett Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/96/192. f. 238.
  26. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 269.
  27. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 269.
  28. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 270.
  29. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 273.
  30. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 275.
  31. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 275.
  32. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 275.
  33. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Monday, April 4, 1938, Issue 47960, p.25.
  34. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  35. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  36. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  37. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  38. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  39. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  40. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  41. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  42. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  43. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  44. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  45. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  46. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  47. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  48. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  49. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  50. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  51. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  52. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  53. Uboat.net page on the ship.

Bibliography


"R" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
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Recruit Sturgeon Sceptre Salmon Sylph
Sarpedon Sable Setter Sorceress Satyr
Sharpshooter Simoom Skate Starfish Stork
Skilful Springbok Tancred Tarpon Telemachus
Tempest Tetrarch Tenacious Thisbe Thruster
  Tormentor Tornado Torrent Torrid  
Thornycroft Specials
Rosalind Radiant Retriever Taurus Teazer
Yarrow Specials
Sabrina Strongbow Surprise Sybille Truculent
  Tyrant Ulleswater  
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  Umpire Urchin Ursa  
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