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She was re-commissioned at Chatham on 1 January 1929 to serve with the {{UK-DF|6}} as part of the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLFeb29|p. 286}}
 
She was re-commissioned at Chatham on 1 January 1929 to serve with the {{UK-DF|6}} as part of the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLFeb29|p. 286}}
  
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''Walpole'' was re-commissioned at Chatham on 24 April, 1931 to contine to operations with the {{UK-DF|6}} as part of the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLJul31|p. 286}}
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''Walpole'' was re-commissioned at Chatham on 24 April, 1931 to continue to operations with the {{UK-DF|6}} as part of the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLJul31|p. 286}}  She remained with them until at least mid-1934, after that formation became attached to the Home Fleet, and re-commissioned at Chatham on 4 May, 1933.{{NLJul34|p. 290}}
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Re-commissioned at Chatham with reserve complement on 7 June, 1935.{{NLOct35|p. 290}}
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She was reduced to Special Complement on 2 June, 1936 at assigned to the {{UK-ASF|1}} out of Portland.{{NLJul37|p. 290}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Hugh Bourchier Wrey|nick=Hugh B. Wrey|appt=15 April, 1921<ref>Wrey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/62.|D7605149}} f. 420.</ref>|end=23 June, 1922<ref>Wrey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/62.|D7605149}} f. 420.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Hugh Bourchier Wrey|nick=Hugh B. Wrey|appt=15 April, 1921<ref>Wrey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/62.|D7605149}} f. 420.</ref>|end=23 June, 1922<ref>Wrey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/62.|D7605149}} f. 420.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=James Chaigneau Colvill|nick=James C. Colvill|appt=23 June, 1922<ref>Colvill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/7.|D7605763}} f. 7.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 287}}|end=14 August, 1925<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=23 June, 1922<ref>Colvill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/7.|D7605763}} f. 7.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 287}}|end=14 August, 1925<ref>Colvill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/7.|D7605763}} f. 7.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Sylvester Moor|nick=William S. Moor|appt=14 August, 1925{{NLFeb26|p. 287}}|end=c. 30 March, 1926{{INF}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Sylvester Moor|nick=William S. Moor|appt=14 August, 1925<ref>Moor Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/9.|}} f. 9.</ref>{{NLFeb26|p. 287}}|end=c. 30 March, 1926{{INF}}|note=eventually being found mentally unstable}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Bernard Armitage Warburton Warburton-Lee|nick=Bernard A. W. Warburton-Lee|appt=30 March, 1926{{NLJul27|p. 286}}<ref>Warburton-Lee Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM196/146.|D8124407}} f. 1.</ref>|end=5 April, 1928<ref>Warburton-Lee Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM196/146.|D8124407}} f. 1.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Bernard Armitage Warburton Warburton-Lee|nick=Bernard A. W. Warburton-Lee|appt=30 March, 1926{{NLJul27|p. 286}}<ref>Warburton-Lee Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM196/146.|D8124407}} f. 1.</ref>|end=5 April, 1928<ref>Warburton-Lee Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM196/146.|D8124407}} f. 1.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Richard Frank Jolly|nick=Richard F. Jolly|appt=5 April, 1928{{NLFeb29|p. 286}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Richard Frank Jolly|nick=Richard F. Jolly|appt=5 April, 1928<ref>Jolly Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/122.|}} f. 122.</ref>{{NLFeb29|p. 286}}|end=c. April, 1929{{NMI|Thursday, Apr 11, 1929; pg. 10; Issue 45174}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Eric Barry Kenyon Stevens|nick=Eric B. K. Stevens|appt=1 April, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 286}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Richard Frank Jolly|nick=Richard F. Jolly|appt=4 November, 1929{{NavAppts|Wednesday, Nov 13, 1929; pg. 20; Issue 45359}}|end=12 April, 1930<ref>Jolly Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/122.|}} f. 122.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Eric Barry Kenyon Stevens|nick=Eric B. K. Stevens|appt=1 April, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 286}}<ref>Stevens Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/144.|}}  f. 175.</ref>|end=22 April, 1932<ref>Stevens Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/144.|}}  f. 175.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Harold William Seaman|nick=Harold W. Seaman|appt=22 April, 1932{{NLJan33|p. 290}}|end=15 November, 1933}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Arthur Frank Capel Layard|nick=Arthur F. C. Layard|appt=4 May, 1933<ref>Layard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/182.|}} f. 182.</ref>{{NLJul34|p. 290}}|end=11 December, 1934<ref>Layard Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/122/182.|}} f. 182.</ref>|note=upon recommissioning}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Errol Concanon Lloyd Turner|nick=Errol C. L. Turner|appt=30 September, 1935|end=11 October, 1935}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Vivian John Voelcker|nick=Vivian J. Voelcker|appt=c. late 1935{{ToL|Destroyers from Gibraltar|27 Apr. 1936, p. 22}}|end=1 June, 1936}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Francis Herbert Mohun Vaughan|nick=Francis H. M. Vaughan|appt=1 June, 1936{{NavAppts|13 May 1936, p. 11}}|end=16 July, 1936}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Victor Findlay|nick=John V. Findlay|appt=15 July, 1936{{NavAppts|4 July 1936, p. 19}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Frank Michael Walton|nick=Frank M. Walton|appt=12 April, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 290}}|end=18 January, 1938{{FC}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Basil Jones|nick=Basil Jones|appt=c. early 1938{{INF}}|end=22 November, 1938{{ToL|Royal Navy|22 Nov. 1938, p. 26}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Maxwell Richmond|nick=Maxwell Richmond|appt=22 November, 1938{{ToL|Royal Navy|22 Nov. 1938, p. 26}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Anthony Frank Burnell-Nugent|nick=Anthony F. Burnell-Nugent|appt=9 January, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|3427}}|end=21 November, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|3427}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Harold Godfrey Bowerman|nick=Harold G. Bowerman|appt=21 December, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|3427}}|end=late 1940{{UBAllyWarship|3427}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Henry Eaden|nick=John H. Eaden|appt=14 March, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|3427}}|end=August, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|3427}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Arthur Shubrook Pomeroy|nick=Arthur S. Pomeroy|appt=August, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|3427}}|end=September, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|3427}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=George Clement Crowley|nick=George C. Crowley|appt=September, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|3427}}|end=early 1945{{UBAllyWarship|3427}}|succBy=Vessel out of Action|note=vessel declared total loss after being mined}}
 
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Latest revision as of 11:13, 5 February 2022

H.M.S. Walpole (1918)
Pendant Number: F.15 (Sep 1918)[1]
Builder: William Doxford & Sons[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 12 Feb, 1918[4]
Completed: 7 Aug, 1918[5]
Commissioned: 11 Jul, 1918[6]
Sold: 8 Feb, 1945[7]

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

Service

Walpole commissioned on 11 July, 1918.[8]

She was re-commissioned at Port Edgar on 27 September, 1923 to serve with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Atlantic Fleet.[9]

She re-commissioned at the Nore on 21 May, 1926 and returned to duty with Sixth Destroyer Flotilla.[10]

She was re-commissioned at Chatham on 1 January 1929 to serve with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Atlantic Fleet.[11]

Walpole was re-commissioned at Chatham on 24 April, 1931 to continue to operations with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Atlantic Fleet.[12] She remained with them until at least mid-1934, after that formation became attached to the Home Fleet, and re-commissioned at Chatham on 4 May, 1933.[13]

Re-commissioned at Chatham with reserve complement on 7 June, 1935.[14]

She was reduced to Special Complement on 2 June, 1936 at assigned to the First Anti-Submarine Flotilla out of Portland.[15]

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. 897.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 897.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 287.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 286.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 286.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 286.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 290.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 290.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 290.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 897.
  17. ↑ Wrey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/62. f. 420.
  18. ↑ Wrey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/62. f. 420.
  19. ↑ Colvill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/7. f. 7.
  20. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 287.
  21. ↑ Colvill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/7. f. 7.
  22. ↑ Moor Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/9. f. 9.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 287.
  24. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 286.
  25. ↑ Warburton-Lee Service Record. The National Archives. ADM196/146. f. 1.
  26. ↑ Warburton-Lee Service Record. The National Archives. ADM196/146. f. 1.
  27. ↑ Jolly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/122. f. 122.
  28. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 286.
  29. ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), Thursday, Apr 11, 1929; pg. 10; Issue 45174.
  30. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Nov 13, 1929; pg. 20; Issue 45359.
  31. ↑ Jolly Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/122. f. 122.
  32. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 286.
  33. ↑ Stevens Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/144. f. 175.
  34. ↑ Stevens Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/144. f. 175.
  35. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 290.
  36. ↑ Layard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/182. f. 182.
  37. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 290.
  38. ↑ Layard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/182. f. 182.
  39. ↑ "Destroyers from Gibraltar." The Times (London, England), 27 Apr. 1936, p. 22.
  40. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 13 May 1936, p. 11.
  41. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 4 July 1936, p. 19.
  42. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 290.
  43. ↑ "Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), 22 Nov. 1938, p. 26.
  44. ↑ "Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), 22 Nov. 1938, p. 26.
  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.
  54. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.

Bibliography


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  Westminster Windsor Wryneck Waterhen  
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  Wolsey Woolston  
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