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Re-commissioned at Chatham on 22 September, 1930 for continued service with the {{UK-DF|1}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLJul31|p. 285}}
 
Re-commissioned at Chatham on 22 September, 1930 for continued service with the {{UK-DF|1}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLJul31|p. 285}}
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She re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 29 December, 1931.{{NLJan33|p. 289}}
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In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10.  Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.{{ToL|Warships' Bells|12 June 1933, p. 11}}
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The destroyer was one of five R.N. vessels that were transferred to the [[Royal Australian Navy]] in 1933.  She paid off at Portsmouth and re-commissioned as '''H.M.A.S. ''Voyager''''' on 11 October 1933.
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She re-commissioned on 1 January, 1934.{{NLJul34|p. 298}}
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She paid off into "E" Class Reserve on 13 April, 1936.{{NLJul37|p. 298}}
  
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Gerald Morell McKenna|nick=Gerald M. McKenna|appt=15 August, 1922{{NLJan23|p. 840}}|end=8 April, 1924}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Gerald Morell McKenna|nick=Gerald M. McKenna|appt=15 August, 1922{{NLJan23|p. 840}}|end=8 April, 1924}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Thomas Balfour Fellowes|nick=Thomas B. Fellowes|appt=1 April, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 286}}|end=31 December, 1926}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Thomas Balfour Fellowes|nick=Thomas B. Fellowes|appt=1 April, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 286}}|end=31 December, 1926}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=George Haines Faulkner|nick=George H. Faulkner|appt=31 December, 1926{{NLJul27|p. 285}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=George Haines Faulkner|nick=George H. Faulkner|appt=31 December, 1926{{NLJul27|p. 285}}|end=May, 1928}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Geoffrey Wilson Mott|nick=Geoffrey W. Mott|appt=c. April, 1928<ref>Mott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/121/47.|}}  f. 47.</ref>|end=October, 1928<ref>Mott Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/121/47.|}}  f. 47.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Peter Vaughan James|nick=Peter V. James|appt=26 September, 1928{{NLFeb29|p. 285}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Peter Vaughan James|nick=Peter V. James|appt=26 September, 1928{{NLFeb29|p. 285}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Guy Ninian Whitelock Boyes|nick=Guy N. W. Boyes|appt=25 August, 1930|end=22 September, 1930|note=temporary, for trials}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Walter Napier Thomason Beckett|nick=Walter N. T. Beckett|appt=September, 1930<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>|end=12 January, 1931<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Walter Napier Thomason Beckett|nick=Walter N. T. Beckett|appt=September, 1930<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>|end=12 January, 1931<ref>Beckett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Thomas Hope Troubridge|nick=Thomas H. Troubridge|appt=21 December, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 285}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Thomas Hope Troubridge|nick=Thomas H. Troubridge|appt=21 December, 1930<ref>Troubridge Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/117/65.|}} f. 65.</ref>{{NLJul31|p. 285}}|end=10 September, 1931<ref>Troubridge Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/117/65.|}} f. 65.</ref>|note=assumed command at undated time}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Benjamin Charles Stanley Martin|nick=Benjamin C. S. Martin|appt=10 September, 1931{{NLJan33|p. 289}}|end=25 September, 1933<ref>Inferred from Maunsell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/110.|}} f. 110.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Frederick Richard Guy Maunsell|nick=Frederick R. G. Maunsell|appt=25 September, 1933<ref>Maunsell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/110.|}} f. 110.</ref>|end=11 October, 1933{{INF}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommAU}}|name=George Scott Stewart|nick=George S. Stewart|appt=11 October, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 298}}|end=|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Voyager''|note=ship becomes H.M.A.S. ''Voyager''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommAU}}|name=Stanley Herbert King Spurgeon|nick=Stanley H. K. Spurgeon|appt=6 August, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 298}}|end=|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Voyager''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommAU}}|name=James Cairns Morrow|nick=James C. Morrow|appt=26 April, 1938{{UBAllyWarship|4248}}|end=27 December, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4248}}|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Voyager''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptAU}}|name=Hector Macdonald Laws Waller|nick=Hector M. L. Waller|appt=27 December, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4248}}|end=9 January, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4248}}|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Voyager''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommAU}}|name=James Cairns Morrow|nick=James C. Morrow|appt=9 January, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4248}}|end=17 November, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4248}}|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Voyager''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCAU}}|name=William Frank Cook|nick=William F. Cook|appt=18 November, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4248}}|end=5 January, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4248}}|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Voyager''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommAU}}|name=Rupert Cowper Robison|nick=Rupert C. Robison|appt=6 January, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4248}}|end=25 September, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4248}}|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Voyager''|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=ship lost under his command}}
 
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H.M.S. Voyager (1918)
Pendant Number: G.36 (Jun 1918)[1]
Builder: Alexander Stephen & Sons[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 8 May, 1918[4]
Completed: 24 Jun, 1918[5]
Commissioned: 8 Jun, 1918[6]
Grounded: 23 Sep, 1942[7]
Fate: Destroyed by crew

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

Service

Voyager was commissioned on 8 June, 1918[8] and joined the Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla in July.[9] She served with the Eleventh until it was disbanded in March, 1919, at which point she was allocated along with the Eleventh's other "V"s and "W"s to the new First Destroyer Flotilla.[10]

She was re-commissioned on 6 June, 1924 at Devonport and joined the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[11]

She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 18 January, 1927 for service with the First Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[12]

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 22 September, 1930 for continued service with the First Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[13]

She re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 29 December, 1931.[14]

In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10. Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.[15]

The destroyer was one of five R.N. vessels that were transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1933. She paid off at Portsmouth and re-commissioned as H.M.A.S. Voyager on 11 October 1933.

She re-commissioned on 1 January, 1934.[16]

She paid off into "E" Class Reserve on 13 April, 1936.[17]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  5. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 896.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 896.
  9. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1918). p. 12.
  10. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 11.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 286.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 285.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 285.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 289.
  15. ↑ "Warships' Bells." The Times (London, England), 12 June 1933, p. 11.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 298.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 298.
  18. ↑ Stuart Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/3. f. 3.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1920). p. 896.
  20. ↑ Stuart Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/3. f. 3.
  21. ↑ Hughes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/195. f. 563.
  22. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 896.
  23. ↑ Hughes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/195. f. 563. Month COULD be August.
  24. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 840.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 286.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 285.
  27. ↑ Mott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/121/47. f. 47.
  28. ↑ Mott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/121/47. f. 47.
  29. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 285.
  30. ↑ Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  31. ↑ Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  32. ↑ Troubridge Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/117/65. f. 65.
  33. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 285.
  34. ↑ Troubridge Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/117/65. f. 65.
  35. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 289.
  36. ↑ Inferred from Maunsell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/110. f. 110.
  37. ↑ Maunsell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/110. f. 110.
  38. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 298.
  39. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 298.
  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.

Bibliography


"W" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Wakeful Watchman Walpole Whitley Walker
Westcott Walrus Wolfhound Warwick Wessex
Voyager Whirlwind Wrestler Winchelsea Winchester
  Westminster Windsor Wryneck Waterhen  
Thornycroft Specials
  Wolsey Woolston  
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