H.M.S. Torch (1918)

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H.M.S. Torch (1918)
Pendant Number: G.33 (Jun 1918)[1]
Builder: Yarrow[2]
Ordered: Apr, 1917 (1st Order)[3]
Launched: 16 Mar, 1918[4]
Completed: 11 May, 1918[5]
Sold:

H.M.S. Torch was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

Recommissioned at Malta on 13 September, 1920.[6]

Re-commissioned at Devonport with 2/5ths crew on 4 December, 1923.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 76.
  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. 76.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 311.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 876.
  7. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 275.
  8. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 921.
  9. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 876.
  10. Butler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/68. f. 205.
  11. Butler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/68. f. 205.
  12. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 822.
  13. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 275.
  14. Rainier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/144/33. f. 363.
  15. Rainier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/144/33. f. 363. The service record is obscured by an insert.

Bibliography


"S" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Simoom Scimitar Scotsman Scout Shark
Sparrowhawk Splendid Sabre Saladin Sikh
Sirdar Somme Success Shamrock Shikari
Senator Sepoy Seraph Swallow Swordsman
Steadfast Sterling Tribune Trinidad Tactician
Tara Tasmania Tattoo Scythe Seabear
Seafire Searcher Seawolf Sportive Stalwart
Tilbury Tintagel Sardonyx Stonehenge Stormcloud
Spear Spindrift Serapis Serene Sesame
Strenuous Stronghold Sturdy Trojan Truant
Trusty Turbulent Tenedos Thanet Thracian
Thornycroft Specials
Speedy Tobago Torbay Toreador Tourmaline
Yarrow Specials
Torch Tomahawk Tryphon Tumult Turquoise
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