H.M.S. Sharpshooter (1917)

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H.M.S. Sharpshooter (1917)
Pendant Number: F.48 (Jan 1917)
F.61 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: William Beardmore & Company[2]
Ordered: Dec 1915 (7th Order)[3][4]
Launched: 27 Feb, 1917[5]
Completed: 2 Apr, 1917[6]
Sold: 29 Apr, 1927[7]

H.M.S. Sharpshooter was one of sixty-two "R" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1916-17.

Service

Sharpshooter reduced to Reserve Complement at Portsmouth on 5 March, 1919.[8]

Following an earlier round of a flotilla leader and seventeen destroyers, Sharpshooter was named as one of an additional fifteen destroyers to be scrapped in the fiscal year starting 1 April, 1926.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 70.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  4. March. British Destroyers. p. 184.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 81.
  6. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 310.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 70.
  8. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 270.
  9. "More Destroyers to be Scrapped." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, September 22, 1925, Issue 44073, p.7.
  10. Boddam-Whetham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/272. ff. 225, 306.
  11. Boddam-Whetham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/272. ff. 225, 306.
  12. Perryman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/117. f. 125.
  13. The Navy List. (February, 1920). p. 864.
  14. Perryman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/117. f. 125.
  15. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 864.
  16. Sworder Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/259. Unnumbered folio.
  17. Sworder Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/259. Unnumbered folio.
  18. Palmer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 190.
  19. Palmer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 190.
  20. The Navy List. (July, 1924). p. 269.
  21. Searles-Wood Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/145/317. f. 315.
  22. Thomas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/124. f. 124.
  23. The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 270.
  24. Thomas Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/124. f. 124.
  25. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 16 Aug. 1926, p. 12.

Bibliography


"R" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Radstock Raider Romola Rowena Restless
Rigorous Rocket Rob Roy Redgauntlet Redoubt
Recruit Sturgeon Sceptre Salmon Sylph
Sarpedon Sable Setter Sorceress Satyr
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Thornycroft Specials
Rosalind Radiant Retriever Taurus Teazer
Yarrow Specials
Sabrina Strongbow Surprise Sybille Truculent
  Tyrant Ulleswater  
Modified "R" Class
Ulster Undine Tower Trenchant Tristram
  Tirade Ursula Ulysses  
  Umpire Urchin Ursa  
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