H.M.S. Patrician (1916)

H.M.S. Patrician (1916)
Pendant Number:	G.48 (Sep 1915) F.23 (Jan 1917) F.15 (Jan 1918) G.A1 (Sep 1918)
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Launched:	5 Jun, 1916
Completed:	Aug, 1916
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H.M.S. Patrician was one of one hundred and three destroyers of the "M" class built for the Royal Navy during the Great War. From late 1920, she served in the Canadian Navy as H.M.C.S. Patrician.

Service

Patrician joined the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla in August, 1916.

She transferred to the Fourteenth Destroyer Flotilla in February 1918 with five other of the Thirteenth's "M" class destroyers.

Patrician re-commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy at Portsmouth on 1 November, 1920.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant in Command Colin S. Thomson, 17 July, 1916 – August, 1916
• Lieutenant in Command Francis G. Glossop, c. late July, 1916 – 25 March, 1918  (in command on transfer)
• Lieutenant-Commander Mark Singleton, 29 March, 1918 – 1 October, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command George C. Jones, 1 November, 1920
• Lieutenant in Command John E. W. Oland, 1 November, 1922
• Lieutenant in Command William J. R. Beech, 1 October, 1924  (perhaps temporary?)
• Lieutenant-Commander Ronald I. Agnew, 1926 – 1928

See Also

• Wikipedia