H.M.S. Swordsman (1918)

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H.M.S. Swordsman (1918)
Pendant Number: F.3A (Mar 1919)[1]
Builder: Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Ordered: Apr, 1917 (1st Order)[3]
Launched: 28 Dec, 1918[4]
Completed: Mar, 1919[5]
Sold:

H.M.S. Swordsman was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

She later transferred to the R.A.N. as H.M.A.S. Swordsman.

Service

Commissioned at Sydney on 5 August, 1926.[6]

Paid off into "E" class Reserve 21 December, 1929.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 84.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 74.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 311.
  6. The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 295.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 298.
  8. White Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/276. f. ?.
  9. White Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/276. f. ?.
  10. R.A.N. Service Record.
  11. R.A.N. Service Record.
  12. R.A.N. Service Record.
  13. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 294.
  14. R.A.N. Service Record.
  15. Black R.A.N. Service Record.
  16. The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 295.
  17. Black R.A.N. Service Record.

Bibliography


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