H.M.S. Waterhen (1918)

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H.M.S. Waterhen (1918)
Pendant Number: G.28 (Sep 1918)[1]
Builder: Palmer[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 26 Mar, 1918[4]
Completed: 17 Jul, 1918[5]
Foundered: 30 Jun, 1941[6]
Fate: Due to bomb damage[7]

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

Service

Recommissioned on 1 July, 1918.[8]

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. 313.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 898.
  9. Homan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/185. f. 390.
  10. The Navy List. (November, 1920). p. 898.
  11. Homan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/185. f. 390.
  12. Wodehouse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/110. f. 56.
  13. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 898.
  14. Wodehouse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/110. f. 56.
  15. Creswell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/79. f. 439.
  16. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 842.
  17. Creswell Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/79. f. 439.
  18. Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
  19. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 288.
  20. Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.

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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