H.M.S. Stork (1916)

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H.M.S. Stork (1916)
Pendant Number: F.66 (Jan 1917)
F.65 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie & Company[2]
Ordered: Dec 1915 (7th Order)[3][4]
Launched: 15 Nov, 1916[5]
Completed: 1 Feb, 1917[6]
Sold: 7 Oct, 1927[7]

H.M.S. Stork was one of sixty-two "R" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1916-17.

Service

Following an earlier round of a flotilla leader and seventeen destroyers, Stork was named as one of an additional fifteen destroyers to be scrapped in the fiscal year starting 1 April, 1926.[8]

Paid off to a C. & M. Party on 25 November, 1926.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 70.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  4. March. British Destroyers. p. 184.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  6. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 310.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 70.
  8. "More Destroyers to be Scrapped." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, September 22, 1925, Issue 44073, p.7.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 271.
  10. Buller Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/465. f. 538.
  11. Buller Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/465. f. 538.
  12. Howard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/55. f. 458.
  13. The Navy List. (November, 1919). p. 910.
  14. Howard Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/55. f. 458.
  15. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 867.
  16. Hudson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/49. f. ?.
  17. Hudson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/49. f. ?.
  18. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 815.
  19. Millar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/290. f. 305.
  20. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 272.
  21. Millar Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/290. f. 305.
  22. Hawkridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/154/43. f. 43.
  23. Hawkridge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/154/43. f. 43.

Bibliography


"R" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
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Rigorous Rocket Rob Roy Redgauntlet Redoubt
Recruit Sturgeon Sceptre Salmon Sylph
Sarpedon Sable Setter Sorceress Satyr
Sharpshooter Simoom Skate Starfish Stork
Skilful Springbok Tancred Tarpon Telemachus
Tempest Tetrarch Tenacious Thisbe Thruster
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Thornycroft Specials
Rosalind Radiant Retriever Taurus Teazer
Yarrow Specials
Sabrina Strongbow Surprise Sybille Truculent
  Tyrant Ulleswater  
Modified "R" Class
Ulster Undine Tower Trenchant Tristram
  Tirade Ursula Ulysses  
  Umpire Urchin Ursa  
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