H.M.S. Nymphe (1911)

H.M.S. Nymphe (1911)
Pendant Number:	H.83 (1914) D.25 (Jan-Jun 1918)
Builder:	Hawthorn Leslie & Company
Launched:	31 Jan, 1911
Completed:	May, 1911
Sold:	May, 1921

H.M.S. Nymphe was one of twenty destroyers of the Acorn class.

Service

On 10 June, 1913, Nymphe collided with Goldfinch and Sheldrake. Her captain, Leveson-Gower, was told he should keep an anchor watch set when the weather was turning sour.

In mid-1913, she was with the Second Destroyer Flotilla.

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Portsmouth on 17 October, 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant & Commander The Hon. William S. Levenson-Gower, 16 May, 1911 – 18 August, 1913
• Lieutenant-Commander Richard M. King, 18 August, 1913 – December, 1915
• Lieutenant in Command Charles G. Naylor, late December, 1915 – 11 February, 1916
• Lieutenant & Commander Charles G. Stuart, 18 March, 1916 – 1 August, 1916
• Lieutenant in Command George A. Scott, 1 August, 1916 – 2 January, 1917
• Lieutenant in Command Godfrey R. Chambers, 31 March, 1917 – July, 1917
• Lieutenant in Command Hugh E. Raymond, 1 September, 1917 – 29 April, 1918  (may have been superseded in command by Stuart)
• Lieutenant-Commander Charles G. Stuart, December, 1917 – 16 April, 1918
• Lieutenant-Commander Aubrey C. Thursfield, 29 April, 1918 – 25 June, 1919  (sick)
• Lieutenant in Command Colin R. St. G. Tucker, 25 June, 1919 – 23 October, 1919

See Also

• Wikipedia