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She was re-commissioned at Port Edgar on 27 September, 1923. By March 1925, she was operating with the {{UK-DF|6}} as part of the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLApr25|p. 283}} | She was re-commissioned at Port Edgar on 27 September, 1923. By March 1925, she was operating with the {{UK-DF|6}} as part of the Atlantic Fleet.{{NLApr25|p. 283}} | ||
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+ | After paying off into Dockyard Control at Devonport on 2 June, 1927,{{NLJul27|p. 282''a''}} she commissioned at Devonport 26 August, 1927 for service with the {{UK-DF|6}} in the Atlantic.{{NLFeb29|p. 282''a''}} | ||
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+ | Re-commissioned at Devonport 27 April, 1931 for service with the {{UK-DF|6}} in the Atlantic,{{NLJul31|p. 282}} where she remained until at least early 1933.{{NLJan33|p. 286}} She remained with the flotilla after it transferred to the Home Fleet.{{NLJul34|p. 288}} | ||
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+ | In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10. Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.{{ToL|Warships' Bells|12 June 1933, p. 11}} | ||
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+ | She transferred to the Reserve Fleet at Devonport on 17 May, 1935.{{NLOct35|p. 288}} | ||
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+ | Commissioned at Devonport on 6 May, 1936 for service with the {{UK-ASF|1}} at Portland.{{NLJul37|p. 288}} | ||
==Captains== | ==Captains== | ||
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Richard Matthew King|nick=Richard M. King|appt=11 February, 1919<ref>King Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603989}} f. 489.</ref>|end=26 June, 1919<ref>King Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603989}} f. 489.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Richard Matthew King|nick=Richard M. King|appt=11 February, 1919<ref>King Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603989}} f. 489.</ref>|end=26 June, 1919<ref>King Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603989}} f. 489.</ref>}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward McConnell Wyndham Lawrie|nick=Edward McC. W. Lawrie|appt=19 June, 1919{{NLNov20|p. 933}}|ass=26 June, 1919<ref>Predecessor left that day. King Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603989}} f. 489.</ref>|note=N.B., his service record indicates that this was cancelled}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward McConnell Wyndham Lawrie|nick=Edward McC. W. Lawrie|appt=19 June, 1919{{NLNov20|p. 933}}|ass=26 June, 1919<ref>Predecessor left that day. King Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/48.|D7603989}} f. 489.</ref>|note=N.B., his service record indicates that this was cancelled}} | ||
− | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Harry Alexander Dykes Keate|nick=Harry A. D. Keate|appt=November, 1919{{NLDec20|p. 890}}|end=}} | + | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Harry Alexander Dykes Keate|nick=Harry A. D. Keate|appt=November, 1919{{NLDec20|p. 890}}|end=4 May, 1921|note=may have been in command from mid 1919}} |
− | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John | + | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Lainson Field|nick=John L. Field|appt=4 May, 1921|end=23 May, 1922}} |
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Ioan Montagu Lawrence Scott|nick=Henry I. M. L. Scott|appt=May, 1922<ref>Scott Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|D7604494}} f. ?.</ref>|end=30 August, 1922<ref>Scott Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|D7604494}} f. ?.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Henry Ioan Montagu Lawrence Scott|nick=Henry I. M. L. Scott|appt=May, 1922<ref>Scott Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|D7604494}} f. ?.</ref>|end=30 August, 1922<ref>Scott Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/82.|D7604494}} f. ?.</ref>}} | ||
− | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Cyril James Herbert Hill|nick=Cyril J. H. Hill|appt=30 August, 1922{{NLApr25|p. 283}}|end=7 April, 1925}} | + | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Cyril James Herbert Hill|nick=Cyril J. H. Hill|appt=30 August, 1922<ref>Hill Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/53/153.|}} f. 152.</ref>{{NLApr25|p. 283}}|end=7 April, 1925<ref>Hill Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/53/153.|}} f. 152.</ref>}} |
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Richard Harter|nick=Richard Harter|appt=7 April, 1925<ref>Harter Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/52/123.|D7605210}} f. 487.</ref>|end=29 December, 1925<ref>Harter Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/52/123.|D7605210}} f. 487.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Richard Harter|nick=Richard Harter|appt=7 April, 1925<ref>Harter Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/52/123.|D7605210}} f. 487.</ref>|end=29 December, 1925<ref>Harter Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/52/123.|D7605210}} f. 487.</ref>}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt|nick=Cecil H. J. Harcourt|appt=29 December, 1925{{NLFeb26|p. 282''a''}}|end=5 January, 1927<ref>Harcourt Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/54/7.|}} f. 7.</ref>}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Arthur Vernon Hemming|nick=Arthur V. Hemming|appt=5 January, 1927|end=30 April, 1927}} | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Arthur Vernon Hemming|nick=Arthur V. Hemming|appt=5 January, 1927|end=30 April, 1927}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Arthur Vernon Hemming|nick=Arthur V. Hemming|appt=26 August, 1927|end=5 April, 1928}} | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Arthur Vernon Hemming|nick=Arthur V. Hemming|appt=26 August, 1927|end=5 April, 1928}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Chicheley Thornton|nick=Edward C. Thornton|appt=5 April, 1928<ref>Thornton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/52/222.|D7605307}} f. 592.</ref>|end=21 August, 1928<ref>Thornton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/52/222.|D7605307}} f. 592.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Chicheley Thornton|nick=Edward C. Thornton|appt=5 April, 1928<ref>Thornton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/52/222.|D7605307}} f. 592.</ref>|end=21 August, 1928<ref>Thornton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/52/222.|D7605307}} f. 592.</ref>}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Graham Crossley|nick=John G. Crossley|appt=21 August, 1928<ref>Crossley Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/117/99.|D7615897}} f. 99.</ref>|end=1 January, 1929<ref>Crossley Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/117/99.|D7615897}} f. 99.</ref>|note=temporary}} | ||
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Ralph Berthon Gossage|nick=Ralph B. Gossage|appt=December, 1928<ref>Gossage Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/117/95.|D7615893}} f. 95.</ref>{{NLFeb29|p. 282''a''}}|end=18 December, 1930<ref>Gossage Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/117/95.|D7615893}} f. 95.</ref>}} | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Ralph Berthon Gossage|nick=Ralph B. Gossage|appt=December, 1928<ref>Gossage Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/117/95.|D7615893}} f. 95.</ref>{{NLFeb29|p. 282''a''}}|end=18 December, 1930<ref>Gossage Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/117/95.|D7615893}} f. 95.</ref>}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Angus Dacres Nicholl|nick=Angus D. Nicholl|appt=18 December, 1930<ref>Nicholl Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/122/82.|}} f. 82.</ref>{{NLFeb29|p. 282}}|end=30 July, 1932<ref>Nicholl Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/122/82.|}} f. 82.</ref>|note=took command in 1931 upon commissioning}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=James Godfrey Wood Deneys|nick=James G. W. Deneys|appt=30 July, 1932{{NLJan33|p. 286}}|end=1933}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Cecil Wakeford May|nick=Cecil W. May|appt=15 December, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 288}}|end=}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Gerald Broadmead Roope|nick=Gerald B. Roope|appt=15 December, 1936{{NLJul37|p. 288}}|end=}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} (retired)|name=Denys Royds Brocklebank|nick=Denys R. Brocklebank|appt=15 June, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}<ref>Brocklebank Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/124/112.|}} f. 112.</ref>|end=June 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Eric Norman Walmsley|nick=Eric N. Walmsley|appt=1 June, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}|end=late 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Raymond Hart|nick=Raymond Hart|appt=21 December, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}|end=6 November, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Peter William Gretton|nick=Sir Peter W. Gretton|appt=6 November, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}|end=1 December, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Raymond Hart|nick=Raymond Hart|appt=1 December, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}|end=March 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Percival John Stoner|nick=Percival J. Stoner|appt=March 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}|end=14 April, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}}} | ||
+ | {{Tenure|rank=Temporary Acting {{LCommRNVR}}|name=George Stephen Woolley|nick=George S. Woolley|appt=14 April, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}|end=mid 1945{{UBAllyWarship|4263}}}} | ||
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H.M.S. Vidette (1918) | |
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Pendant Number: | F.07 (Jun 1918)[1] |
Builder: | Alexander Stephen & Sons[2] |
Launched: | 28 Feb, 1918[3] |
Completed: | 27 Apr, 1918[4] |
Commissioned: | 18 Apr, 1918[5] |
Sold: |
H.M.S. Vidette was one of twenty-five "V" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.
Service
Vidette was commissioned on 18 April, 1918.[6]
She was re-commissioned at Port Edgar on 27 September, 1923. By March 1925, she was operating with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Atlantic Fleet.[7]
After paying off into Dockyard Control at Devonport on 2 June, 1927,[8] she commissioned at Devonport 26 August, 1927 for service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic.[9]
Re-commissioned at Devonport 27 April, 1931 for service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla in the Atlantic,[10] where she remained until at least early 1933.[11] She remained with the flotilla after it transferred to the Home Fleet.[12]
In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10. Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.[13]
She transferred to the Reserve Fleet at Devonport on 17 May, 1935.[14]
Commissioned at Devonport on 6 May, 1936 for service with the First Anti-Submarine Flotilla at Portland.[15]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander William J. Whitworth, 4 April, 1918[16][17] – 11 February, 1919[18]
- Commander Richard M. King, 11 February, 1919[19] – 26 June, 1919[20]
- Commander Edward McC. W. Lawrie, 19 June, 1919[21] (N.B., his service record indicates that this was cancelled)
- Lieutenant-Commander Harry A. D. Keate, November, 1919[22] – 4 May, 1921 (may have been in command from mid 1919)
- Commander John L. Field, 4 May, 1921 – 23 May, 1922
- Commander Henry I. M. L. Scott, May, 1922[23] – 30 August, 1922[24]
- Lieutenant-Commander Cyril J. H. Hill, 30 August, 1922[25][26] – 7 April, 1925[27]
- Lieutenant-Commander Richard Harter, 7 April, 1925[28] – 29 December, 1925[29]
- Lieutenant-Commander Cecil H. J. Harcourt, 29 December, 1925[30] – 5 January, 1927[31]
- Lieutenant-Commander Arthur V. Hemming, 5 January, 1927 – 30 April, 1927
- Lieutenant-Commander Arthur V. Hemming, 26 August, 1927 – 5 April, 1928
- Commander Edward C. Thornton, 5 April, 1928[32] – 21 August, 1928[33]
- Lieutenant-Commander John G. Crossley, 21 August, 1928[34] – 1 January, 1929[35] (temporary)
- Lieutenant-Commander Ralph B. Gossage, December, 1928[36][37] – 18 December, 1930[38]
- Lieutenant-Commander Angus D. Nicholl, 18 December, 1930[39][40] – 30 July, 1932[41] (took command in 1931 upon commissioning)
- Lieutenant-Commander James G. W. Deneys, 30 July, 1932[42] – 1933
- Lieutenant-Commander Cecil W. May, 15 December, 1933[43]
- Lieutenant-Commander Gerald B. Roope, 15 December, 1936[44]
- Commander (retired) Denys R. Brocklebank, 15 June, 1939[45][46] – June 1940[47]
- Lieutenant in Command Eric N. Walmsley, 1 June, 1940[48] – late 1942[49]
- Lieutenant-Commander Raymond Hart, 21 December, 1942[50] – 6 November, 1943[51]
- Commander Sir Peter W. Gretton, 6 November, 1943[52] – 1 December, 1943[53]
- Lieutenant-Commander Raymond Hart, 1 December, 1943[54] – March 1944[55]
- Lieutenant in Command Percival J. Stoner, March 1944[56] – 14 April, 1944[57]
- Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander R.N.V.R. George S. Woolley, 14 April, 1944[58] – mid 1945[59]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 890.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 890.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 283.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 282a.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 282a.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 282.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 286.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 288.
- ↑ "Warships' Bells." The Times (London, England), 12 June 1933, p. 11.
- ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 288.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 288.
- ↑ Whitworth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/232. f. 117.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 935.
- ↑ Whitworth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/232. f. 117.
- ↑ King Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 489.
- ↑ King Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 489.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1920). p. 933.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 890.
- ↑ Scott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/82. f. ?.
- ↑ Scott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/82. f. ?.
- ↑ Hill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/153. f. 152.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 283.
- ↑ Hill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/153. f. 152.
- ↑ Harter Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/52/123. f. 487.
- ↑ Harter Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/52/123. f. 487.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 282a.
- ↑ Harcourt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/7. f. 7.
- ↑ Thornton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/222. f. 592.
- ↑ Thornton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/222. f. 592.
- ↑ Crossley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/99. f. 99.
- ↑ Crossley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/99. f. 99.
- ↑ Gossage Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/95. f. 95.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 282a.
- ↑ Gossage Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/95. f. 95.
- ↑ Nicholl Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/82. f. 82.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 282.
- ↑ Nicholl Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/122/82. f. 82.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 286.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 288.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 288.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Brocklebank Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/112. f. 112.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
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