H.M.S. Stafford (1918)

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H.M.S. Stafford (1918)
Admiralty Pendant Number: 4367[1]
Pendant Number: T.7/ (Jul 1919)
T.42 (Nov 1919)[2]
Builder: Charles Rennoldson & Company[3]
Ordered: mid 1917[4]
Launched: 20 Sep, 1918[5]
Sold: Jun, 1928[6]

H.M.S. Stafford was one of one hundred and fourteen Hunt Class minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Stafford re-commissioned at the Nore on 1 September, 1920.[7]

In January, 1921, she was at Harwich, one of forty-one paid off minesweepers there.[8]

As the Central Reserve of Minesweepers at Sheerness was being merged into the general Fleet Reserve at the Nore in February 1928, it was deemed necessary to trim the fat. Stafford was one of ten obsolete minesweepers ordered to be placed on the for sale list, adding to a group of nine previously set for disposal.[9]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. "/" denotes Oblique pendant here. p. 114.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 98.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 114.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 867.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 707a.
  9. "Obsolete Minesweepers." The Times (London, England), Friday, February 3, 1928, Issue 44807, p.7.
  10. The Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 911.
  11. Swinney Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 240/54/28. f. 28.
  12. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jun 20, 1924; pg. 5; Issue 43683.

Bibliography


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Cattistock Croome Dartmoor Garth Hambledon
Heythrop Holderness Meynell Muskerry Oakley
Pytchley Quorn Southdown Tedworth Zetland
Admiralty Design
Aberdare Abingdon Albury Alresford Beaufort
Collinson Appledore Leamington Badminton Bagshot
Barnstaple Swindon Banchory Bloxham Bradfield
Burslem Goole Blackburn Bootle Caerleon
Camberley Carstairs Caterham Battle Fermoy
Forfar Bury Cheam Gretna Harrow
Havant Huntley Instow Gaddesden Gainsborough
Northolt Clonmel Elgin Sherborne Tiverton
Tonbridge Tralee Tring Truro Kellett
Verwood Wem Wexford Craigie Derby
Dorking Dundalk Dunoon Fairfield Forres
Cupar Sutton Fareham Faversham Ford
Rugby Irvine Kendal Kinross Lydd
Longford Marlow Mistley Monaghan Mallaig
Malvern Marazion Munlochy Nailsea Newark
Repton Weybourne Pangbourne Penarth Petersfield
Pinner Pontypool Prestatyn Radley Ross
Salford Saltash Saltburn Selkirk Shrewsbury
Sligo Widnes Yeovil Stafford Stoke
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