H.M.S. Telemachus (1917)

H.M.S. Telemachus (1917)
Pendant Number:	F.86 (Jan 1917) F.23 (Jan 1918) F.81 (Sep 1918)
Builder:	John Brown & Company
Ordered:	Mar 1916 (8th Order)
Launched:	21 Apr, 1917
Completed:	Jun, 1917
Sold:	26 Jul, 1927

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

Service

Telemachus joined the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla in July, 1917.

In March, 1918, she went to the Twentieth Destroyer Flotilla, part of the East Coast Forces.

At some point during the war, she rammed Sandfly in thick fog, causing the other ship's boilder room to flood, necessitating an arduous, thirty-six hour tow to harbour.

Telemachus was reduced to Reserve at Devonport in February of 1920.

She was again commissioned on 3 August, 1921.

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

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Commander H. Taprell Dorling, 30 May, 1917
• Lieutenant in Command Richard Harter, 5 August, 1918 – 4 October, 1919
• Lieutenant in Command Edward Eastwick-Field, 28 October, 1919 – 1 February, 1920
• Commander H. Taprell Dorling, June, 1921
• Commander Charles H. Knox-Little, 9 July, 1923 – 25 August, 1923  (and for instruction duties at Port Edgar Base)
• Commander Henry I. M. L. Scott, 28 August, 1925 – 30 September, 1926

See Also

• Wikipedia