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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Fawcett|nick=John Fawcett|appt=April, 1923<ref>Fawcett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604265}} f. ?.</ref>|ass=21 May, 1923<ref>Bignell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/117.|D7604021}} f. 521.</ref>|end=7 February, 1926<ref>Fawcett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604265}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Fawcett|nick=John Fawcett|appt=April, 1923<ref>Fawcett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604265}} f. ?.</ref>|ass=21 May, 1923<ref>Bignell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/117.|D7604021}} f. 521.</ref>|end=7 February, 1926<ref>Fawcett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604265}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alexander Leslie Fletcher|nick=Alexander L. Fletcher|appt=9 February, 1926<ref>Fletcher Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/.|D7604570}} f. ?.</ref>|end=1 April, 1926<ref>Fletcher Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/.|D7604570}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alexander Leslie Fletcher|nick=Alexander L. Fletcher|appt=9 February, 1926<ref>Fletcher Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/.|D7604570}} f. ?.</ref>|end=1 April, 1926<ref>Fletcher Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/.|D7604570}} f. ?.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Colin Sinclair Thomson|nick=Colin S. Thomson|appt=31 March, 1927<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/76.|D7576711}} f. 432.</ref>|end=c. April, 1927<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/76.|D7576711}} f. 432.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Colin Sinclair Thomson|nick=Colin S. Thomson|appt=31 March, 1927<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/76.|D7576711}} f. 432.</ref>|end=20 April, 1927<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/76.|D7576711}} f. 432.  Date is that of her re-commissioning.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Colin Sinclair Thomson|nick=Colin S. Thomson|appt=June, 1927<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/76.|D7576711}} f. 432.</ref>{{NLJul27|p. 280}}|end=March, 1929<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/76.|D7576711}} f. 432.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Walter Napier Thomason Beckett|nick=Walter N. T. Beckett|appt=March, 1929<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>|end=25 June, 1929<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Walter Napier Thomason Beckett|nick=Walter N. T. Beckett|appt=March, 1929<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>|end=25 June, 1929<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Henry Jauncey|nick=John H. Jauncey|appt=12 June, 1940<ref>Jauncey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/132.|D7576717}} f. 488.</ref>|end=25 April, 1941<ref>Jauncey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/132.|D7576717}} f. 488.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Henry Jauncey|nick=John H. Jauncey|appt=12 June, 1940<ref>Jauncey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/132.|D7576717}} f. 488.</ref>|end=25 April, 1941<ref>Jauncey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/132.|D7576717}} f. 488.</ref>}}

Revision as of 15:14, 27 September 2016

H.M.S. Versatile (1917)
Pendant Number: F.29 (1917)
G.10 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Launched: 31 Oct, 1917[3]
Completed: 11 Feb, 1918[4]
Sold:

H.M.S. Versatile was one of twenty-five "V" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.

Service

Versatile joined the Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla in February, 1918[5] and remained with that formation until it was disbanded in March, 1919, at which point she was allocated along with the Eleventh's other "V"s to the new First Destroyer Flotilla.[6]

She re-commissioned on 10 December, 1920.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 72.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
  4. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
  5. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (February, 1918). p. 12.
  6. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 11.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 883.
  8. The Navy List. (November, 1920). p. 883.
  9. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 883.
  10. Bignell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/117. f. 521.
  11. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 831.
  12. Bignell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/117. f. 521.
  13. Fawcett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. ?.
  14. Fawcett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. f. ?.
  15. Fletcher Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/. f. ?.
  16. Fletcher Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/. f. ?.
  17. Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/76. f. 432.
  18. Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/76. f. 432. Date is that of her re-commissioning.
  19. Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/76. f. 432.
  20. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 280.
  21. Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/76. f. 432.
  22. Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  23. Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  24. Jauncey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/132. f. 488.
  25. Jauncey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/132. f. 488.

Bibliography


"V" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Vancouver Vanessa Vanity Vanquisher Vanoc
Vega Velox Vehement Venturous Vendetta
Venetia Verdun Versatile Verulam Vesper
  Vidette Violent Vimiera Vittoria  
  Vivacious Vivien Vortigern Vectis  
Thornycroft Specials
  Viceroy Viscount  
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