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Commissioned at Chatham on 1 January, 1929 for continued service with the {{UK-DF|6}} in the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLFeb29|p. 288}}
 
Commissioned at Chatham on 1 January, 1929 for continued service with the {{UK-DF|6}} in the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLFeb29|p. 288}}
  
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Re-commissioned at Chatham on 24 April, 1931 for continue her service with the {{UK-DF|6}} in the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLJul31|p. 288}}  She remained with them into at least 1933 after that formation became attacked to Home Fleet.{{NLJan33|p. 291}}
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''Wessex'' was re-commissioned at Chatham on 24 April, 1931 for continue her service with the {{UK-DF|6}} in the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLJul31|p. 288}}  She remained with them into at least 1933 after that formation became attached to Home Fleet.{{NLJan33|p. 291}}
  
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Re-commissioned on 25 May, 1934 for service with the {{UK-DF|5}} of the Home Fleet.{{NLJul34|p. 291}}
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She was re-commissioned on 25 May, 1934 for service with the {{UK-DF|5}} of the Home Fleet.{{NLJul34|p. 291}}
  
 
In 1934, her bell was offered for sale to naval officers and others who might be interested, at the price of £5 or perhaps £1.  Interested parties were to write the Director of Stores and were urged to include any special information which might convey the importance they attach to the bell, in light of the Admiralty's understanding that such items carry great sentimental value.{{ToL|Ships' Bells for Sale|Wednesday, Apr 18, 1934; pg. 4; Issue 46731}}
 
In 1934, her bell was offered for sale to naval officers and others who might be interested, at the price of £5 or perhaps £1.  Interested parties were to write the Director of Stores and were urged to include any special information which might convey the importance they attach to the bell, in light of the Admiralty's understanding that such items carry great sentimental value.{{ToL|Ships' Bells for Sale|Wednesday, Apr 18, 1934; pg. 4; Issue 46731}}
  
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Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 20 August, 1935 for duty with the {{UK-DF|3}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLOct35|p. 291}}
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''Wessex'' was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 20 August, 1935 for duty with the {{UK-DF|3}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLOct35|p. 291}}
  
 
She was re-commissioned in Reserve at Portsmouth on 17 June, 1936.{{NLJul37|p. 291}}
 
She was re-commissioned in Reserve at Portsmouth on 17 June, 1936.{{NLJul37|p. 291}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Daniel Harvey Rainier|nick=Daniel H. Rainier|appt=29 July, 1920<ref>Rainier Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/144/33.|D8123198}} f. 363.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 288}}|end=17 April, 1925<ref>Rainier Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/144/33.|D8123198}} f. 363.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Daniel Harvey Rainier|nick=Daniel H. Rainier|appt=29 July, 1920<ref>Rainier Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/144/33.|D8123198}} f. 363.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 288}}|end=17 April, 1925<ref>Rainier Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/144/33.|D8123198}} f. 363.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Alastair Gordon Davidson|nick=Alastair G. Davidson|appt=17 April, 1925{{NLFeb26|p. 287}}|end=19 May, 1927}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Alastair Gordon Davidson|nick=Alastair G. Davidson|appt=17 April, 1925{{NLFeb26|p. 287}}|end=19 May, 1927}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Roland Frith Balfour Swinley|nick=Roland F. B. Swinley|appt=25 April, 1927{{NLJul27|p. 288}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Roland Frith Balfour Swinley|nick=Roland F. B. Swinley|appt=25 April, 1927{{NLJul27|p. 288}}|end=12 July, 1928<ref>Swinley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/57.|}} f. 57.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Roland Frith Balfour Swinley|nick=Roland F. B. Swinley|appt=1 November, 1928{{NLFeb29|p. 288}}|end=|note=possibly continuing previous command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Roland Frith Balfour Swinley|nick=Roland F. B. Swinley|appt=1 November, 1928{{NLFeb29|p. 288}}|end=20 April, 1929<ref>Swinley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/57.|}} f. 57.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Frederic Cyril Bradley|nick=Frederic C. Bradley|appt=26 April, 1929<ref>Bradley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/60.|D7605147}} f. 418.</ref>|end=30 December, 1930<ref>Bradley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/60.|D7605147}} f. 418.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Frederic Cyril Bradley|nick=Frederic C. Bradley|appt=26 April, 1929<ref>Bradley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/60.|D7605147}} f. 418.</ref>|end=30 December, 1930<ref>Bradley Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/60.|D7605147}} f. 418.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Hamilton Edward Snepp|nick=Hamilton E. Snepp|appt=30 December, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 287}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Hamilton Edward Snepp|nick=Hamilton E. Snepp|appt=30 December, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 287}}|end=31 December, 1931<ref>Snepp Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/127/281.|}} f. 281.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt|nick=Cecil H. J. Harcourt|appt=31 December, 1931{{NLJan33|p. 291}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt|nick=Cecil H. J. Harcourt|appt=31 December, 1931<ref>Harcourt Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/54/7.|}} f. 7.</ref>{{NLJan33|p. 291}}|end=1933}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Rory Chambers O'Conor|nick=Rory C. O'Conor|appt=c. January, 1933{{NavAppts|18 Jan. 1933, p. 15}}|end=4 May, 1933{{INF}}|note=upon her re-commissioning}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Bostock|nick=John Bostock|appt=4 May, 1933{{NavAppts|8 May 1933, p. 7}}|end=5 July, 1933}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Bostock|nick=John Bostock|appt=4 May, 1933{{NavAppts|8 May 1933, p. 7}}|end=5 July, 1933}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Bostock|nick=John Bostock|appt=28 October, 1933{{NavAppts|26 Oct. 1933, p. 24}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Bostock|nick=John Bostock|appt=28 October, 1933{{NavAppts|26 Oct. 1933, p. 24}}|end=29 November, 1933<ref>Bostock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/119/91.|}} f. 91.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} ('''I''' ''Fr.'')|name=Thomas John Norman Hilken|nick=Thomas J. N. Hilken|appt=25 May, 1934{{NLJul34|p. 291}}|end=|note=transferred in with crew from {{UK-Whirlwind}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} ('''I''', ''Fr.'')|name=Thomas John Norman Hilken|nick=Thomas J. N. Hilken|appt=25 May, 1934{{NLJul34|p. 291}}|end=|note=transferred in with crew from {{UK-Whirlwind}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Bostock|nick=John Bostock|appt=1 October, 1924<ref>Bostock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/119/91.|}} f. 91.</ref>|end=7 November, 1934<ref>Bostock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/119/91.|}} f. 91.</ref>|note=for trials}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Bostock|nick=John Bostock|appt=1 October, 1934<ref>Bostock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/119/91.|}} f. 91.</ref>|end=7 November, 1934<ref>Bostock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/119/91.|}} f. 91.</ref>|note=for trials}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Hugh Gartside-Tippinge|nick=Hugh Gartside-Tippinge|appt=19 July, 1935<ref>Gartside-Tippinge Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/128.|}} f. 128.</ref>|end=|note=end date not sure due to illegible Service Record}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Walter Roger Marshall-A'Deane|nick=Walter R. Marshall-A'Deane|appt=20 August, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 291}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Walter Roger Marshall-A'Deane|nick=Walter R. Marshall-A'Deane|appt=20 August, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 291}}|end=}}
 
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Latest revision as of 13:00, 13 February 2022

H.M.S. Wessex (1918)
Pendant Number: F.32 (Jun 1918)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie & Company[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 12 Mar, 1918[4]
Completed: 11 May, 1918[5]
Sunk: 24 May, 1940[6]
Fate: Air attack off Calais[7]

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

Service

Wessex was re-commissioned on 31 August, 1918.[8]

She re-commissioned with two-fifths crew at Chatham on 13 May, 1922.[9]

Wessex was re-commissioned at Port Edgar on 27 September, 1923 to serve with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Atlantic Fleet.[10]

Commissioned at Chatham on 1 January, 1929 for continued service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet.[11]

Wessex was re-commissioned at Chatham on 24 April, 1931 for continue her service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic Fleet.[12] She remained with them into at least 1933 after that formation became attached to Home Fleet.[13]

She was re-commissioned on 25 May, 1934 for service with the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.[14]

In 1934, her bell was offered for sale to naval officers and others who might be interested, at the price of £5 or perhaps £1. Interested parties were to write the Director of Stores and were urged to include any special information which might convey the importance they attach to the bell, in light of the Admiralty's understanding that such items carry great sentimental value.[15]

Wessex was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 20 August, 1935 for duty with the Third Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[16]

She was re-commissioned in Reserve at Portsmouth on 17 June, 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. 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. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 843.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 287.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 288.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 288.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 291.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 291.
  15. ↑ "Ships' Bells for Sale." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Apr 18, 1934; pg. 4; Issue 46731.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 291.
  17. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 291.
  18. ↑ Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  19. ↑ Tillard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/46. f. 95.
  20. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1920). p. 898.
  21. ↑ Horan Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/5. f. 5.
  22. ↑ Rainier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/144/33. f. 363.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 288.
  24. ↑ Rainier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/144/33. f. 363.
  25. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 287.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 288.
  27. ↑ Swinley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/57. f. 57.
  28. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 288.
  29. ↑ Swinley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/57. f. 57.
  30. ↑ Bradley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/60. f. 418.
  31. ↑ Bradley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/60. f. 418.
  32. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 287.
  33. ↑ Snepp Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/127/281. f. 281.
  34. ↑ Harcourt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/7. f. 7.
  35. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 291.
  36. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 18 Jan. 1933, p. 15.
  37. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 8 May 1933, p. 7.
  38. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 26 Oct. 1933, p. 24.
  39. ↑ Bostock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/119/91. f. 91.
  40. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 291.
  41. ↑ Bostock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/119/91. f. 91.
  42. ↑ Bostock Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/119/91. f. 91.
  43. ↑ Gartside-Tippinge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/128. f. 128.
  44. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 291.

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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