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H.M.S. Somme was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.
Service
Somme was recommissioned on 15 December, 1920.[6]
She re-commissioned at Portsmouth with 2/5ths crew on 4 December, 1923 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet.[7].
Somme was re-commissioned at the Nore on 7 January, 1927 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla on the China Station.[8]
The ship re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 1 October, 1929 for continued service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla.[9]
In November 1929, she collided with Stormcloud through circumstances a Court of Enquiry determined was a lack of through and consideration on the part of the other ship's commanding officer.[10]
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.[11]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander Sydney Hopkins, 2 October, 1918[12][13] – 17 November, 1919[14]
- Lieutenant-Commander John B. Spurgin, 17 November, 1919[15][16] – 28 December, 1920[17]
- Lieutenant-Commander Humphrey E. Archer, 28 December, 1920[18] – 16 December, 1922[19]
- Lieutenant-Commander Edward S. F. Fegen, c. August, 1922[20][21] – October, 1923[22] (in command on re-commissioning)
- Lieutenant-Commander John W. Durnford, October, 1923[23] – 12 November, 1923[24]
- Lieutenant-Commander Walter N. T. Beckett, 12 November, 1923[25] – 30 September, 1924[26]
- Lieutenant-Commander Francis S. W. de Winton, 9 March, 1925[27][28] – 1 March, 1929[29]
- Commander John G. Crossley, February, 1929[30] – 3 October, 1930[31]
- Lieutenant-Commander Philip N. Walter, 1 August, 1930[32] – 17 December, 1931
- Lieutenant-Commander Stuart E. Crewe-Read, 17 December, 1931[33] – 2 May, 1932[34]
See Also
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
- ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
- ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 311.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 865.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 271.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 270.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 269.
- ↑ Handley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/154/331. f. 331.
- ↑ "Warships' Bells." The Times (London, England), 12 June 1933, p. 11.
- ↑ Hopkins Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/107. f. ?.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 909.
- ↑ Hopkins Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/107. f. ?. Somme is not indicted in his Service Record AT ALL, but the Navy List and Spurgin's data suggest this end date is certain.
- ↑ Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
- ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 865.
- ↑ Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
- ↑ Archer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/216. f. 586.
- ↑ Archer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/216. f. 586.
- ↑ Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/8. f. 8.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 813.
- ↑ Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/8. f. 8.
- ↑ Durnford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/129. f. 128.
- ↑ Durnford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/129. f. 128.
- ↑ Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
- ↑ Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
- ↑ De Winton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/105. f. 105.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 270.
- ↑ De Winton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/105. f. 105.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 270.
- ↑ Crossley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/99. f. ?.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 270.
- ↑ Crewe-Read Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/38. f. 38.
- ↑ Crewe-Read Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/38. f. 38.
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