H.M.S. Versatile (1917): Difference between revisions
From The Dreadnought Project
Jump to navigationJump to search
Line 19: | Line 19: | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Victor Lindsey Arbuthnot Campbell|nick=Victor L. A. Campbell|appt=6 December, 1920{{NLJan21|p. 883}}|end=}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Victor Lindsey Arbuthnot Campbell|nick=Victor L. A. Campbell|appt=6 December, 1920{{NLJan21|p. 883}}|end=}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lawrence D'Oyly Bignell|nick=Lawrence D'O. Bignell|appt=14 September, 1922{{NLJan23|p. 831}}|end=}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lawrence D'Oyly Bignell|nick=Lawrence D'O. Bignell|appt=14 September, 1922{{NLJan23|p. 831}}|end=}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Fawcett|nick=John Fawcett|appt=April, 1923<ref>Fawcett Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604265}} Unnumbered folio.</ref>|end=7 February, 1926<ref>Fawcett Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|D7604265}} Unnumbered folio.</ref>}} | |||
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Walter Napier Thomason Beckett|nick=Walter N. T. Beckett|appt=March, 1929<ref>Beckett Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>|end=25 June, 1929<ref>Beckett Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Walter Napier Thomason Beckett|nick=Walter N. T. Beckett|appt=March, 1929<ref>Beckett Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>|end=25 June, 1929<ref>Beckett Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/55/100.|D7605856}} f. 100.</ref>}} | ||
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt> | </div name=fredbot:officeCapt> |
Revision as of 20:19, 10 March 2016
H.M.S. Versatile (1917) | |
---|---|
Pendant Number: | F.29 (1917) G.10 (Jan 1918)[1] |
Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie[2] |
Launched: | 31 Oct, 1917[3] |
Completed: | 11 Feb, 1918[4] |
Sold: |
H.M.S. Versatile was one of twenty-five "V" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.
Service
Versatile joined the Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla in February, 1918[5] and remained with that formation until it was disbanded in March, 1919, at which point she was allocated along with the Eleventh's other "V"s to the new First Destroyer Flotilla.[6]
She re-commissioned on 10 December, 1920.[7]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander Gerald C. Wynter, 19 January, 1918[8]
- Commander Victor L. A. Campbell, 6 December, 1920[9]
- Commander Lawrence D'O. Bignell, 14 September, 1922[10]
- Commander John Fawcett, April, 1923[11] – 7 February, 1926[12]
- Lieutenant-Commander Walter N. T. Beckett, March, 1929[13] – 25 June, 1929[14]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 72.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
- ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (February, 1918). p. 12.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 11.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 883.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1920). p. 883.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 883.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 831.
- ↑ Fawcett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. Unnumbered folio.
- ↑ Fawcett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49. Unnumbered folio.
- ↑ Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
- ↑ Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
Bibliography
"V" Class Destroyer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Admiralty Design | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vancouver | Vanessa | Vanity | Vanquisher | Vanoc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vega | Velox | Vehement | Venturous | Vendetta | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Venetia | Verdun | Versatile | Verulam | Vesper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vidette | Violent | Vimiera | Vittoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vivacious | Vivien | Vortigern | Vectis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thornycroft Specials | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Viceroy | Viscount | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
<– | "R" Class | Destroyers (UK) | "W" Class | –> |