H.M.S. Swallow (1918)

H.M.S. Swallow (1918)
Pendant Number:	F.73 (Nov 1918)
Builder:	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Ordered:	Apr, 1917 (1st Order)
Launched:	1 Aug, 1918
Completed:	27 Sep, 1918
Sold:

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

Service

Swallow re-commissioned at Malta on 13 September, 1920.

She was re-commissioned at Chatham with 2/5ths crew on 4 December, 1923.

Paid off into Reserve at Chatham on 29 January, 1926.

Paid off into Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth on 30 March, 1928.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant-Commander Edye K. Boddam-Whetham, 1 September, 1918 – January, 1920
• Lieutenant in Command Edmund H. Hopkinson, 26 November, 1918 – 31 December, 1918  (temporary, while Boddam-Whetham was sick)
• Lieutenant-Commander Edward C. Denison, January, 1921 – September, 1922^[Inference]
• Lieutenant-Commander Edward T. W. Church, September, 1922 – October, 1923
• Lieutenant-Commander Walter F. Smithwick, October, 1923 – 5 November, 1923
• Lieutenant-Commander Gilbert C. Pelly, 5 November, 1923 – 27 August, 1924
• Lieutenant-Commander Noel L. Veresmith, 22 August, 1924 – 13 January, 1925
• Lieutenant-Commander Arthur L. Pears, 7 March, 1925
• Lieutenant-Commander Joseph Horsfield, 28 February, 1928 – 22 June, 1930  (for passage to Rosyth, but may have lasted to 1930)

See Also

• Wikipedia