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On 24 November, 1917 ''Wakeful'' and {{UK-Ursa}} collided through what the Admiralty concluded was ''Wakeful{{'}}s'' commander, Lt. [[Henry Armstrong Binmore]] being unfamiliar with the unspecified port in which the collision occurred.  He was superseded in command of the ship two days later to take up command of {{UK-Pylades}},<ref>Binmore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/202.|D7604957}} f. 214.</ref> replaced in command of ''Wakeful'' by Cdr. [[Somerville Peregrine Brownlow Russell]].
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In December 1917, ''Wakeful'' joined the {{UK-DF|13}}.{{SMNLDec17|p. 12}}
 
In December 1917, ''Wakeful'' joined the {{UK-DF|13}}.{{SMNLDec17|p. 12}}
  
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''Wakeful'' was reduced to Reserve on 18 June, 1931.{{NLJul34|p. 289}}
 
''Wakeful'' was reduced to Reserve on 18 June, 1931.{{NLJul34|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}}
  
 
The destroyer re-commissioned in Reserve at Chatham on 13 March, 1936.{{NLJul37|p. 289}}
 
The destroyer re-commissioned in Reserve at Chatham on 13 March, 1936.{{NLJul37|p. 289}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Henry Armstrong Binmore|nick=Henry A. Binmore|appt=5 November, 1917<ref>Binmore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/202.|D7604957}} f. 214.</ref>|end=26 November, 1917<ref>Binmore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/202.|D7604957}} f. 214.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Henry Armstrong Binmore|nick=Henry A. Binmore|appt=5 November, 1917<ref>Binmore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/202.|D7604957}} f. 214.</ref>|end=26 November, 1917<ref>Binmore Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/202.|D7604957}} f. 214.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Somerville Peregrine Brownlow Russell|nick=Somerville P. B. Russell|appt=26 November, 1917<ref>Russell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/124.|D7604028}} f. 528.</ref>|end=19 July, 1918<ref>Russell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/124.|D7604028}} f. 528.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Somerville Peregrine Brownlow Russell|nick=Somerville P. B. Russell|appt=26 November, 1917<ref>Russell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/124.|D7604028}} f. 528.</ref>|end=19 July, 1918<ref>Russell Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/124.|D7604028}} f. 528.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Algernon Edmund Penrice Lyons|nick=Algernon E. P. Lyons|appt=19 July, 1918{{NLDec19|p. 896}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Algernon Edmund Penrice Lyons|nick=Algernon E. P. Lyons|appt=19 July, 1918<ref>Lyons Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/301.|}} f. 322.</ref>{{NLDec19|p. 896}}|end=8 December, 1919<ref>Lyons Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/301.|}} f. 322.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Malcolm Murray|nick=Malcolm Murray|appt=6 April, 1920{{NLDec20|p. 896}}|end=5 January, 1921}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Malcolm Murray|nick=Malcolm Murray|appt=6 April, 1920{{NLDec20|p. 896}}|end=5 January, 1921}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Kenneth Adair Beattie|nick=Kenneth A. Beattie|appt=5 January, 1921<ref>Beattie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/125.|D7604029}} f. ?.</ref>|end=2 March, 1922<ref>Beattie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/125.|D7604029}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Kenneth Adair Beattie|nick=Kenneth A. Beattie|appt=5 January, 1921<ref>Beattie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/125.|D7604029}} f. ?.</ref>|end=2 March, 1922<ref>Beattie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/48/125.|D7604029}} f. ?.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Percy Ralph Passawer Percival|nick=Percy R. P. Percival|appt=13 April, 1922<ref>Percival Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/255.|D7604667}} f. 303.</ref>{{NLJan23|p. 840}}|end=23 January, 1923<ref>Percival Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/255.|D7604667}} f. 303.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Percy Ralph Passawer Percival|nick=Percy R. P. Percival|appt=13 April, 1922<ref>Percival Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/255.|D7604667}} f. 303.</ref>{{NLJan23|p. 840}}|end=23 January, 1923<ref>Percival Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50/255.|D7604667}} f. 303.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Ernest Beeley|nick=Ernest Beeley|appt=23 January, 1923{{NLJul24|p. 286}}|end=3 February, 1925}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Ernest Beeley|nick=Ernest Beeley|appt=23 January, 1923{{NLJul24|p. 286}}|end=3 February, 1925}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Geoffrey Cecil Fryer|nick=Geoffrey C. Fryer|appt=3 February, 1925{{NLApr25|p. 286}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Geoffrey Cecil Fryer|nick=Geoffrey C. Fryer|appt=3 February, 1925<ref>Fryer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/29.|}} f. 29.</ref>{{NLApr25|p. 286}}|end=1 December, 1925<ref>Fryer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/29.|}} f. 29.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Eric Paul Vivian|nick=Eric P. Vivian|appt=15 April, 1926|end=1926|note=transferred to {{UK-Watchman}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Eric Paul Vivian|nick=Eric P. Vivian|appt=15 April, 1926|end=1926|note=transferred to {{UK-Watchman}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Alastair Gordon Davidson|nick=Alastair G. Davidson|appt=19 May, 1927{{NLJul27|p. 285}}|end=31 August, 1927{{NLFeb29|p. 280}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Alastair Gordon Davidson|nick=Alastair G. Davidson|appt=19 May, 1927{{NLJul27|p. 285}}|end=31 August, 1927{{NLFeb29|p. 280}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=James Chaigneau Colvill|nick=James C. Colvill|appt=April, 1928<ref>Colvill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/7.|D7605763}} f. 7.</ref>|end=1 October, 1928<ref>Colvill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/7.|D7605763}} f. 7.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=James Chaigneau Colvill|nick=James C. Colvill|appt=April, 1928<ref>Colvill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/7.|D7605763}} f. 7.</ref>|end=1 October, 1928<ref>Colvill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/7.|D7605763}} f. 7.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robert Alexander Cassidi|nick=Robert A. Cassidi|appt=5 November, 1928{{NLFeb29|p. 286}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Alan MacGregor Sheffield|nick=Alan MacG. Sheffield|appt=3 April, 1928<ref>Sheffield Service Record ADM 196/120/38.</ref>|end=12 July, 1928<ref>Sheffield Service Record ADM 196/120/38.</ref>|note=vice Colvill; this seems to disagree with his SR as I read it}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Roland Frith Balfour Swinley|nick=Roland F. B. Swinley|appt=12 July, 1928<ref>Swinley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/57.|}} f. 57.</ref>|end=late 1928<ref>Swinley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/57.|}} f. 57.</ref>|note=transferred in from, and out to {{UK-Wessex}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robert Alexander Cassidi|nick=Robert A. Cassidi|appt=5 November, 1928{{NLFeb29|p. 286}}|end=9 April, 1929}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Walter John Phipps|nick=Walter J. Phipps|appt=29 April, 1929<ref>Phipps Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/52.|}} f. 52.</ref>|end=|note=transferred out to {{UK-Westminster}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Theodore Frederick Annesley Voysey|nick=Theodore F. A. Voysey|appt=April, 1929<ref>Voysey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/177.|D7606123}} f. 179.</ref>|end=1 May, 1929<ref>Voysey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/177.|D7606123}} f. 179.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Theodore Frederick Annesley Voysey|nick=Theodore F. A. Voysey|appt=April, 1929<ref>Voysey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/177.|D7606123}} f. 179.</ref>|end=1 May, 1929<ref>Voysey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/177.|D7606123}} f. 179.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Ian Reddie Hamilton Black|nick=Ian R. H. Black|appt=April, 1930<ref>Black Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/147/564.|D8125667}} f. ?.</ref>|end=September, 1930<ref>Black Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/147/564.|D8125667}} f. ?.</ref>|note=transferred in from, and out to {{UK-Wrestler}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Arthur Frank Capel Layard|nick=Arthur F. C. Layard|appt=September, 1930<ref>Layard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/182.|}} f. 182.</ref>|end=1931<ref>Layard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/182.|}} f. 182.</ref>|note=took command upon commissioning, transferred out to {{UK-Vivacious}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Hugh Gartside-Tippinge|nick=Hugh Gartside-Tippinge|appt=1 July, 1935<ref>Gartside-Tippinge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/128.|}} f. 128.</ref>|end=19 July, 1935<ref>Gartside-Tippinge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/128.|}} f. 128.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Robert St. Vincent Sherbrooke|nick=Robert St. V. Sherbrooke|appt=31 July, 1939<ref>Sherbrooke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/55.|}} f. 55.</ref>{{UBAllyWarship|4249}}|end=18 December, 1939<ref>Sherbrooke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/55.|}} f. 55.</ref>{{UBAllyWarship|4249}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Ralph Lindsay Fisher|nick=Ralph L. Fisher|appt=18 December, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|4249}}|end=29 May, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4249}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=ship sunk under his command}}
 
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Latest revision as of 10:16, 14 February 2022

H.M.S. Wakeful (1917)
Pendant Number: F.37 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown & Company[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 6 Oct, 1917[4]
Completed: Nov, 1917[5]
Torpedoed: 29 May, 1940[6]
Fate: by Schnellboot[7]

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

Service

On 24 November, 1917 Wakeful and Ursa collided through what the Admiralty concluded was Wakeful's commander, Lt. Henry Armstrong Binmore being unfamiliar with the unspecified port in which the collision occurred. He was superseded in command of the ship two days later to take up command of Pylades,[8] replaced in command of Wakeful by Cdr. Somerville Peregrine Brownlow Russell.

In December 1917, Wakeful joined the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla.[9]

She was re-commissioned at Rosyth on 7 April, 1920.[10]

Wakeful was re-commissioned on 13 April, 1922.[11]

She was re-commissioned on 1 December, 1925.[12]

Wakeful was commissioned on 19 May, 1927 under the command of Alastair Gordon Davidson for service with the Second Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[13]

She was re-commissioned at Chatham on 1 January, 1929 for service in the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet.[14]

Re-commissioned at Sheerness on 7 October, 1930.[15]

Wakeful was reduced to Reserve on 18 June, 1931.[16]

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.[17]

The destroyer re-commissioned in Reserve at Chatham on 13 March, 1936.[18]

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. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  8. ↑ Binmore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/202. f. 214.
  9. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (December, 1917). p. 12.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 896.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 286.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 286.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 285.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 286.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 285.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 289.
  17. ↑ "Warships' Bells." The Times (London, England), 12 June 1933, p. 11.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 289.
  19. ↑ Binmore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/202. f. 214.
  20. ↑ Binmore Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/202. f. 214.
  21. ↑ Russell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/124. f. 528.
  22. ↑ Russell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/124. f. 528.
  23. ↑ Lyons Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/301. f. 322.
  24. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1919). p. 896.
  25. ↑ Lyons Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/301. f. 322.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 896.
  27. ↑ Beattie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/125. f. ?.
  28. ↑ Beattie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/125. f. ?.
  29. ↑ Percival Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/255. f. 303.
  30. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 840.
  31. ↑ Percival Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/255. f. 303.
  32. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 286.
  33. ↑ Fryer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/29. f. 29.
  34. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 286.
  35. ↑ Fryer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/29. f. 29.
  36. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 285.
  37. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 280.
  38. ↑ Colvill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/7. f. 7.
  39. ↑ Colvill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/7. f. 7.
  40. ↑ Sheffield Service Record ADM 196/120/38.
  41. ↑ Sheffield Service Record ADM 196/120/38.
  42. ↑ Swinley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/57. f. 57.
  43. ↑ Swinley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/57. f. 57.
  44. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 286.
  45. ↑ Phipps Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/52. f. 52.
  46. ↑ Voysey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/177. f. 179.
  47. ↑ Voysey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/177. f. 179.
  48. ↑ Black Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/147/564. f. ?.
  49. ↑ Black Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/147/564. f. ?.
  50. ↑ Layard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/182. f. 182.
  51. ↑ Layard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/182. f. 182.
  52. ↑ Gartside-Tippinge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/128. f. 128.
  53. ↑ Gartside-Tippinge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/128. f. 128.
  54. ↑ Sherbrooke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/55. f. 55.
  55. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  56. ↑ Sherbrooke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/55. f. 55.
  57. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  58. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  59. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.

Bibliography


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