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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Colin Kenneth MacLean|nick=Colin K. MacLean|appt=17 October, 1917{{NLMar20|p. 866}}<ref>MacLean Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D8112229}} f. 285.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D) of {{UK-DF|10}}, later of {{UK-DF|2}}|precBy=New Command|end=29 April, 1920<ref>MacLean Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D8112229}} f. 285.</ref>}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Eric Gascoigne Robinson|nick=Eric G. Robinson|appt=1 November, 1923<ref>Robinson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|D7603783}} f. 281.</ref>|end=November, 1924<ref>Robinson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/47.|D7603783}} f. 281.</ref>|note=and as Captain (D) of {{UK-DF|2}}}}

Revision as of 14:54, 22 May 2015

H.M.S. Spenser (1917)
Pendant Number: F.90 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Thornycroft[2]
Launched: 22 Sep, 1917[3]
Handed over: 29 Sep, 1936[4]

H.M.S. Spenser was one of five flotilla leaders of the Shakespeare class.

Service

Spenser commissioned on 1 December, 1917,[5] becoming the flagship of the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla.[6]

She would remain there until March 1919, when she was placed in the retooled Second Destroyer Flotilla.[7]

Equipment

In 1919, she was selected to receive one of the first five Renouf Torpedo Tactical Instrument Type As.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 71.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 866.
  6. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (December, 1917). p. 13.
  7. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 11.
  8. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1919. p. 118.
  9. The Navy List. (March, 1920). p. 866.
  10. MacLean Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 285.
  11. MacLean Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 285.
  12. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 866.
  13. Robinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 281.
  14. Robinson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 281.
  15. Ramsey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 327.
  16. Ramsey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 327.
  17. Holbrook Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 219.
  18. Holbrook Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/47. f. 219.

Bibliography


Shakespeare Class Flotilla Leader
Shakespeare Spenser Wallace Keppel Broke
<– "V" Class Destroyer Leaders (UK) Scott Class –>