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She commissioned in Reserve at The Nore on 15 July, 1932.{{NLJan33|p. 283}}
 
She commissioned in Reserve at The Nore on 15 July, 1932.{{NLJan33|p. 283}}
  
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Re-commissioned on 10 June, 1937 under Lt. Cdr. [[Lionel Vavasseur Lloyd|L.V. Lloyd]] at The Nore.{{NLJul37|p. 285}}
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In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10.  Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.{{ToL|Warships' Bells|12 June 1933, p. 11}}
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''Vesper'' was re-commissioned on 10 June, 1937 under Lt. Cdr. [[Lionel Vavasseur Lloyd|L.V. Lloyd]] at The Nore.{{NLJul37|p. 285}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Reginald Vesey Holt|nick=Reginald V. Holt|appt=c. June, 1923<ref>Holt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/179.|D7576665}} f. 240.</ref>|end=September, 1923<ref>Holt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/179.|D7576665}} f. 240.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Reginald Vesey Holt|nick=Reginald V. Holt|appt=c. June, 1923<ref>Holt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/179.|D7576665}} f. 240.</ref>|end=September, 1923<ref>Holt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/179.|D7576665}} f. 240.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin|nick=Valentine M. Wyndham-Quin|appt=July, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>|end=15 August, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin|nick=Valentine M. Wyndham-Quin|appt=July, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>|end=15 August, 1924<ref>Wyndham-Quin Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/322.|D7605407}} f. 696.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}}|name=Hugh Roy MacGregor Laird|nick=Hugh Roy MacG. Laird|appt=22 August, 1924{{NLFeb26|p. 281}}|end=|note=not noted as being "in command"}}
 
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lionel George Dawson|nick=Lionel G. Dawson|appt=24 January, 1927<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|D7576679}} f. 208.</ref>|end=October, 1927<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|D7576679}} f. 208.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Lionel George Dawson|nick=Lionel G. Dawson|appt=24 January, 1927<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|D7576679}} f. 208.</ref>|end=October, 1927<ref>Dawson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/50.|D7576679}} f. 208.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Colin Sinclair Thomson|nick=Colin S. Thomson|appt=20 April, 1927<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/76.|D7576711}} f. 432.  Date is that of her re-commissioning.</ref>|end=June, 1927<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/76.|D7576711}} f. 432.</ref>{{NLJul27|p. 280}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Colin Sinclair Thomson|nick=Colin S. Thomson|appt=20 April, 1927<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/76.|D7576711}} f. 432.  Date is that of her re-commissioning.</ref>|end=June, 1927<ref>Thomson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/52/76.|D7576711}} f. 432.</ref>{{NLJul27|p. 280}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Alan MacGregor Sheffield|nick=Alan MacG. Sheffield|appt=c. late 1928<ref>Sheffield Service Record ADM 196/120/38.</ref>|end=November, 1929<ref>Sheffield Service Record ADM 196/120/38.</ref>|a lot of interpretation here}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edmund Gerard Noel Rushbrooke|nick=Edmund G. N. Rushbrooke|appt=c. May, 1929|end=June, 1929}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edmund Gerard Noel Rushbrooke|nick=Edmund G. N. Rushbrooke|appt=c. May, 1929|end=June, 1929}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Gerald Yerburgh Loveband|nick=John G. Y. Loveband|appt=c. mid 1930<ref>Loveband Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/84.|}} f. 84.</ref>|end=c. 22 November, 1930<ref>Loveband Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/84.|}} f. 84.</ref>|note=transferredin and out via {{UK-Windsor}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edmund Gerard Noel Rushbrooke|nick=Edmund G. N. Rushbrooke|appt=November, 1930|end=21 November, 1930}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edmund Gerard Noel Rushbrooke|nick=Edmund G. N. Rushbrooke|appt=November, 1930|end=21 November, 1930}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alfred Jerome Lucian Phillips|nick=Alfred J. L. Phillips|appt=22 November, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 279''a''}}|end=3 October, 1932}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alfred Jerome Lucian Phillips|nick=Alfred J. L. Phillips|appt=22 November, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 279''a''}}|end=3 October, 1932}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Lionel Vavasseur Lloyd|nick=Lionel V. Lloyd|appt=10 June, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 285}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Frederick Stevens-Guille|nick=George F. Stevens-Guille|appt=4 July, 1932{{NavAppts| Tuesday, June 7, 1932, Issue 46153, p.20}}|end=|note=transferred out, undated, to {{UK-Walker}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutRN}} (in Command?)|name=Stephen Halden Beattie|nick=Stephen H. Beattie|appt=17 June, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 285}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Newton James Wallop William-Powlett|nick=Newton J. W. William-Powlett|appt=1 July, 1935<ref>William-Powlett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/159.|}}  f. 159.</ref>|end=22 July, 1935<ref>William-Powlett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/118/159.|}}  f. 159.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Errol Concanon Lloyd Turner|nick=Errol C. L. Turner|appt=6 September, 1935|end=10 September, 1935}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Lionel Vavasseur Lloyd|nick=Lionel V. Lloyd|appt=10 June, 1937<ref>Lloyd Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/147.|}} f. 147.</ref>{{NLJul37|p. 285}}|end=4 August, 1937<ref>Lloyd Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/55/147.|}} f. 147.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Robert St. Vincent Sherbrooke|nick=Robert St. V. Sherbrooke|appt=28 September, 1938<ref>Sherbrooke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/55.|}} f. 55.</ref>|end=late 1938<ref>Sherbrooke Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/55.|}} f. 55.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Frederick Eyre Hussey|nick=William F. E. Hussey|appt=31 July, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|4261}}|end=24 February, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4261}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Peter William Furneaux Stubbs|nick=Peter W. F. Stubbs|appt=24 February, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4261}}|end=14 May, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4261}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Douglas Henry Reid Bromley|nick=Douglas H. R. Bromley|appt=14 May, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4261}}|end=early 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4261}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Malcolm Rodgers|nick=John M. Rodgers|appt=8 May, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4261}}|end=1 April, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4261}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Vernon Dudley Ravenscroft|nick=Vernon D. Ravenscroft|appt=1 April, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4261}}|end=mid 1945{{UBAllyWarship|4261}}}}
 
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Latest revision as of 11:51, 21 April 2022

H.M.S. Vesper (1917)
Pendant Number: F.39 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Alexander Stephen & Sons[2]
Launched: 15 Dec, 1917[3]
Completed: 20 Feb, 1918[4]
Sold:

H.M.S. Vesper was one of twenty-five "V" class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy in 1917-18.

Service

Vesper was re-commissioned on 25 August, 1920.[5]

Vesper was re-commissioned at Chatham on 15 August, 1924.[6]

She re-commissioned on 20 April, 1927,[7] but paid off on 11 August.[8]

The ship was re-commissioned at Devonport on 21 November, 1930, to be appointed under the command of Alfred Jerome Lucian Phillips the following day for work with the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla with the Atlantic Fleet.[9]

She commissioned in Reserve at The Nore on 15 July, 1932.[10]

In June of 1933, her bell was one of about 100 surplus bells announced as being for sale at prices ranging from £1 to £10. Preference would be given to those offers from men with a special consideration in the bell in question.[11]

Vesper was re-commissioned on 10 June, 1937 under Lt. Cdr. L.V. Lloyd at The Nore.[12]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Hugh Rose Troup may have been loaned to the ship in early 1923.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 83.
  4. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 883.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 281.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 280.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 280.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 279a.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 283.
  11. ↑ "Warships' Bells." The Times (London, England), 12 June 1933, p. 11.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 285.
  13. ↑ Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1920). p. 883.
  15. ↑ Legge Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/170. f. 574.
  16. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 883.
  17. ↑ Iffy date. Making it match Keate's Service Record end date.
  18. ↑ Holt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/179. f. 240.
  19. ↑ Holt Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/179. f. 240.
  20. ↑ Wyndham-Quin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/322. f. 696.
  21. ↑ Wyndham-Quin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/322. f. 696.
  22. ↑ Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 208.
  23. ↑ Dawson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 208.
  24. ↑ Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/76. f. 432. Date is that of her re-commissioning.
  25. ↑ Thomson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/76. f. 432.
  26. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 280.
  27. ↑ Sheffield Service Record ADM 196/120/38.
  28. ↑ Sheffield Service Record ADM 196/120/38.
  29. ↑ Loveband Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/84. f. 84.
  30. ↑ Loveband Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/84. f. 84.
  31. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 279a.
  32. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Tuesday, June 7, 1932, Issue 46153, p.20.
  33. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 285.
  34. ↑ William-Powlett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/159. f. 159.
  35. ↑ William-Powlett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/159. f. 159.
  36. ↑ Lloyd Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/147. f. 147.
  37. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 285.
  38. ↑ Lloyd Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/147. f. 147.
  39. ↑ Sherbrooke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/55. f. 55.
  40. ↑ Sherbrooke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/55. f. 55.
  41. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  42. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  43. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  44. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  45. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  46. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  47. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  48. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  49. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  50. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.

Bibliography


"V" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Vancouver Vanessa Vanity Vanquisher Vanoc
Vega Velox Vehement Venturous Vendetta
Venetia Verdun Versatile Verulam Vesper
  Vidette Violent Vimiera Vittoria  
  Vivacious Vivien Vortigern Vectis  
Thornycroft Specials
  Viceroy Viscount  
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