H.M.S. Bluebell (1915)

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H.M.S. Bluebell (1915)
Pendant Number: M.29 (Feb, 1915)
T.03 (Sep, 1915)
T.12 (Jan, 1918)[1]
Builder: Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Ordered: Jan, 1915[3]
Launched: 24 Jul, 1915[4]
Sold: May, 1930[5]
H.M.S. Bluebell was one of twenty-four Acacia Class sweeping sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Her first captain, Lieutenant in Command Martin A. F. Hood, was cautioned by Vice-Admiral, Commanding, Queenstown, to be more careful in future after grounding the vessel on 10 December, 1915.[6]

Bluebell was re-commissioned on 27 December, 1921.[7]

She was re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 9 April, 1924.[8]

Bluebell was re-commissioned on 1 November, 1926.[9]

Captains

See Also

Acknowledgement

  • Thanks to Paul Money for pointing out ship command details in her transcribed logbook.

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 93. The M pendants were changed to M (international) on 24 Apr 1915.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 94.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 94.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 94.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 94.
  6. Hood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/149. f. 161.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 729.
  8. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 219.
  9. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 219.
  10. Hood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/149. f. 161.
  11. The Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 392n.
  12. Hood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/149. f. 161.
  13. Morison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/197. f. 243.
  14. Morison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/197. f. 243.
  15. Stanley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47/90. f. 295.
  16. The Navy List. (June, 1920). p. 735.
  17. Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.com.
  18. Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.com.
  19. Transcribed Ship Logs at naval-history.com.
  20. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 729.
  21. Smithwick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/310. f. ?.
  22. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 219.
  23. Smithwick Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/310. f. ?.
  24. Muirhead-Gould Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/52/100. f. 451.
  25. Muirhead-Gould Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/52/100. f. 451.
  26. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 219.

Bibliography


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