H.M.S. Telemachus (1917)

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H.M.S. Telemachus (1917)
Pendant Number: F.86 (Jan 1917)
F.23 (Jan 1918)
F.81 (Sep 1918)[1]
Builder: John Brown & Company[2]
Ordered: Mar 1916 (8th Order)[3][4]
Launched: 21 Apr, 1917[5]
Completed: Jun, 1917[6]
Sold: 26 Jul, 1927[7]

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.[8]

In March, 1918, she went to the Twentieth Destroyer Flotilla, part of the East Coast Forces.[9]

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.[10]

Telemachus was reduced to Reserve at Devonport in February of 1920.[11]

She was again commissioned on 3 August, 1921.[12]

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.[13]

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. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1917). p. 12.
  9. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1918). p. 15.
  10. Smith. Hard Lying. p. 124.
  11. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 871.
  12. The Navy List. (April, 1925). p. 274.
  13. "More Destroyers to be Scrapped." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, September 22, 1925, Issue 44073, p.7.
  14. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 395f.
  15. The Navy List. (November, 1919). p. 915.
  16. Harter Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/52/123. f. 487.
  17. Eastwick-Field Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/289. f. 662.
  18. The Navy List. (February, 1920). p. 871.
  19. Eastwick-Field Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/289. f. 662.
  20. Dorling Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48. f. 452.
  21. Knox-Little Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/119. f. 127.
  22. Knox-Little Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/119. f. 127.
  23. Scott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/82. f. ?.
  24. Scott Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/82. f. ?.

Bibliography


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Recruit Sturgeon Sceptre Salmon Sylph
Sarpedon Sable Setter Sorceress Satyr
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Skilful Springbok Tancred Tarpon Telemachus
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Thornycroft Specials
Rosalind Radiant Retriever Taurus Teazer
Yarrow Specials
Sabrina Strongbow Surprise Sybille Truculent
  Tyrant Ulleswater  
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  Umpire Urchin Ursa  
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