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==Service==
==Service==
''Wryneck'' was re-commissioned at Chatham on 6 June, 1924 for service with the {{UK-DF|5}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLApr25|p. 291}}
Re-commissioned at the Nore on 25 January, 1927 for service with the {{UK-DF|1}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLFeb29|p. 291}}
Completed to full complement on 11 June, 1929 for service with the {{UK-DF|1}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLJul31|p. 291}}
She commissioned in Reserve at The Nore on 14 December, 1932.{{NLJul37|p. 294}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Wryneck''">
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Wryneck''">
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Ralph Vincent Eyre|nick=Ralph V. Eyre|appt=18 September, 1918{{NLAug20|p. 902-945}}|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Ralph Vincent Eyre|nick=Ralph V. Eyre|appt=18 September, 1918{{NLAug20|p. 902-945}}|end=6 August, 1920|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alexander Sholto Douglas|nick=Alexander S. Douglas|appt=6 August, 1920{{NLJan21|p. 902-945}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alexander Sholto Douglas|nick=Alexander S. Douglas|appt=6 August, 1920<ref>Douglas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/173.|D7604271}} f. 93.</ref>{{NLJan21|p. 902-945}}|end=17 August, 1922<ref>Douglas Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/173.|D7604271}} f. 93.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Philip George Wodehouse|nick=Philip G. Wodehouse|appt=17 August, 1922<ref>Wodehouse Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/110.|D7576662}} f. 56.</ref>{{NLJan23|p. 846-898}}|end=5 January, 1923<ref>Wodehouse Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/110.|D7576662}} f. 56.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Philip George Wodehouse|nick=Philip G. Wodehouse|appt=17 August, 1922<ref>Wodehouse Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/110.|D7576662}} f. 56.</ref>{{NLJan23|p. 846-898}}|end=5 January, 1923<ref>Wodehouse Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/110.|D7576662}} f. 56.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William Jock Whitworth|nick=William J. Whitworth|appt=5 January, 1923<ref>Whitworth Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/232.|D7576669}} f. 117.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 291}}|end=11 July, 1924<ref>Whitworth Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/232.|D7576669}} f. 117.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William Jock Whitworth|nick=William J. Whitworth|appt=5 January, 1923<ref>Whitworth Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/232.|D7576669}} f. 117.</ref>{{NLJul24|p. 291}}|end=11 July, 1924<ref>Whitworth Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/232.|D7576669}} f. 117.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Philip John Mack|nick=Philip J. Mack|appt=9 April, 1928{{NLJul24|p. 290}}<ref>Mack Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/21.|D7605777}} f. 21.</ref>|end=19 May, 1930<ref>Mack Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/21.|D7605777}} f. 21.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Fraser|nick=The Hon. George Fraser|appt=30 July, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 291}}<ref>Fraser Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/50/346.|D7576692}} f. 344.</ref>|end=21 October, 1925<ref>Fraser Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/50/346.|D7576692}} f. 344.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Chicheley Thornton|nick=Edward C. Thornton|appt=1 May, 1930<ref>Thornton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/222.|D7605307}} f. 592.</ref>|end=May, 1932<ref>Thornton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/222.|D7605307}} f. 592.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=David Bruce Nicol|nick=David B. Nicol|appt=21 October, 1925<ref>Nicol Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/133.|D7604888}} f. 144.</ref>|end=31 December, 1926<ref>Nicol Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/51/133.|D7604888}} f. 144.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Hugh Bousfield|nick=Henry H. Bousfield|appt=31 December, 1926{{NavAppts|Monday, November 29, 1926, Issue 44441, p.7}}|end=2 May, 1928}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Philip John Mack|nick=Philip J. Mack|appt=9 April, 1928<ref>Mack Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/21.|D7605777}} f. 21.</ref>|end=19 May, 1930<ref>Mack Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/21.|D7605777}} f. 21.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Chicheley Thornton|nick=Edward C. Thornton|appt=1 May, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 291}}<ref>Thornton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/222.|D7605307}} f. 592.</ref>|end=May, 1932<ref>Thornton Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/222.|D7605307}} f. 592.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John de Clare Richards|nick=John de C. Richards|appt=1 December, 1932{{NavAppts|26 Nov. 1932, p. 15}}<ref>Richards Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/119/41.|}} f. 41.</ref>|end=7 April, 1933<ref>Richards Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/119/41.|}} f. 41.</ref>|note=temporary}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robert Henry Douglas Lane|nick=Robert H. D. Lane|appt=26 July, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|5437}}|end=27 April, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|5437}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=killed when ship lost under his command}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>


==See Also==
==See Also==
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Latest revision as of 13:41, 14 February 2022

H.M.S. Wryneck (1918)
Pendant Number: G.05 (Nov 1918)[1]
Builder: Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 13 May, 1918[4]
Completed: 11 Nov, 1918[5]
Commissioned: 3 Oct, 1918[6]
Sunk: 27 Apr, 1941[7]
Fate: Air attack off Greece[8]

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

Service

Wryneck was re-commissioned at Chatham on 6 June, 1924 for service with the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[9]

Re-commissioned at the Nore on 25 January, 1927 for service with the First Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[10]

Completed to full complement on 11 June, 1929 for service with the First Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[11]

She commissioned in Reserve at The Nore on 14 December, 1932.[12]

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. 312.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 902-945.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  8. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 291.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 291.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 291.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 294.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1920). p. 902-945.
  14. ↑ Douglas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/173. f. 93.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 902-945.
  16. ↑ Douglas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/173. f. 93.
  17. ↑ Wodehouse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/110. f. 56.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 846-898.
  19. ↑ Wodehouse Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/110. f. 56.
  20. ↑ Whitworth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/232. f. 117.
  21. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 291.
  22. ↑ Whitworth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/232. f. 117.
  23. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 291.
  24. ↑ Fraser Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/50/346. f. 344.
  25. ↑ Fraser Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/50/346. f. 344.
  26. ↑ Nicol Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/133. f. 144.
  27. ↑ Nicol Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/133. f. 144.
  28. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Monday, November 29, 1926, Issue 44441, p.7.
  29. ↑ Mack Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/21. f. 21.
  30. ↑ Mack Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/21. f. 21.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 291.
  32. ↑ Thornton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/222. f. 592.
  33. ↑ Thornton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/222. f. 592.
  34. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 26 Nov. 1932, p. 15.
  35. ↑ Richards Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/119/41. f. 41.
  36. ↑ Richards Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/119/41. f. 41.
  37. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  38. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.

Bibliography


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