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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Humphrey Edward Archer|nick=Humphrey E. Archer|appt=28 December, 1920<ref>Archer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/216.|D7605301}} f. 586.</ref>|end=16 December, 1922<ref>Archer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/216.|D7605301}} f. 586.</ref>}}
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Revision as of 19:37, 22 February 2017

H.M.S. Somme (1918)
Pendant Number: G.52 (Nov 1918)[1]
Builder: Fairfield[2]
Ordered: Apr, 1917 (1st Order)[3]
Launched: 10 Sep, 1918[4]
Completed: 4 Nov, 1918[5]
Sold:

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

Service

She recommissioned on 15 December, 1920.[6]

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. (January, 1921). p. 865.
  7. ↑ Hopkins Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/107. f. ?.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 909.
  9. ↑ Hopkins Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/107. f. ?. Somme is not indicted in his Service Record AT ALL, but the Navy List and Spurgin's data suggest this end date is certain.
  10. ↑ Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 865.
  12. ↑ Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
  13. ↑ Archer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/216. f. 586.
  14. ↑ Archer Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/216. f. 586.
  15. ↑ Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/8. f. 8.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 813.
  17. ↑ Fegen Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/54/8. f. 8.
  18. ↑ Durnford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/129. f. 128.
  19. ↑ Durnford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/129. f. 128.
  20. ↑ Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  21. ↑ Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.

Bibliography


"S" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Simoom Scimitar Scotsman Scout Shark
Sparrowhawk Splendid Sabre Saladin Sikh
Sirdar Somme Success Shamrock Shikari
Senator Sepoy Seraph Swallow Swordsman
Steadfast Sterling Tribune Trinidad Tactician
Tara Tasmania Tattoo Scythe Seabear
Seafire Searcher Seawolf Sportive Stalwart
Tilbury Tintagel Sardonyx Stonehenge Stormcloud
Spear Spindrift Serapis Serene Sesame
Strenuous Stronghold Sturdy Trojan Truant
Trusty Turbulent Tenedos Thanet Thracian
Thornycroft Specials
Speedy Tobago Torbay Toreador Tourmaline
Yarrow Specials
Torch Tomahawk Tryphon Tumult Turquoise
  Tuscan Tyrian  
<– "W" Class Destroyers (UK) Modified "W" Class –>


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