H.M.S. Sybille (1917)

H.M.S. Sybille (1917)
Pendant Number:	F.77 (Jan 1917) F.67 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	Yarrow & Company
Ordered:	July 1915 (6th Order)
Launched:	5 Feb, 1917
Completed:	Feb, 1917
Sold:	5 Nov, 1926

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

There was also a second class protected cruiser Sybille launched in 1890.

Service

She was reduced to Reserve at the Nore on 1 April, 1919.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant in Command Charles M. Blackman, 15 March, 1917 – late March 1917  (transferred out to Lawford)
• Commander Arthur A. Scott, late March, 1917 – 5 March, 1919
• Commander Arthur J. Landon, 20 March, 1919 – 26 May, 1920  (and in charge of a group of destroyers)
• Lieutenant-Commander Hugh L. Vaughan-Williams, 10 July, 1924 – 27 August, 1924  (temporary, for Reserve Fleet Exercises)

See Also

• Wikipedia