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'''H.M.S. ''Sorceress''''' was one of 62 destroyers of the [["R" Class Destroyer (1916)|"R" class]].
'''H.M.S. ''Sorceress''''' was one of sixty-two destroyers of the [["R" Class Destroyer (1916)|"R" class]].


==Service==
==Service==
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Henry Radcliffe James|nick=Henry R. James|appt=28 November, 1916{{NLMay19|p. 909}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Henry Percy Boxer|nick=Henry P. Boxer|appt=May, 1919{{NLAug19|p. 908}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Thomas Alexander Bunbury|nick=Charles T. A. Bunbury|appt=1 October, 1919{{NLDec20|p. 865}}}}
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Revision as of 16:54, 30 September 2014

H.M.S. Sorceress (1916)
Pendant Number: G.93 (Jan 1917)
G.94 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Swan Hunter[2]
Ordered: Jul 1915 (6th Order)[3][4]
Launched: 29 Aug, 1916[5]
Completed: Dec, 1916[6]
Sold: 29 Apr, 1927[7]

H.M.S. Sorceress was one of sixty-two destroyers of the "R" class.

Service

Sorceress joined the Grand Fleet's Fifteenth Destroyer Flotilla in December, 1916.[8]

She re-commissioned on 19 November, 1919.[9]

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. (December, 1916). p. 12.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 865.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1919). p. 909.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (August, 1919). p. 908.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 865.

Bibliography


"R" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Radstock Raider Romola Rowena Restless
Rigorous Rocket Rob Roy Redgauntlet Redoubt
Recruit Sturgeon Sceptre Salmon Sylph
Sarpedon Sable Setter Sorceress Satyr
Sharpshooter Simoom Skate Starfish Stork
Skilful Springbok Tancred Tarpon Telemachus
Tempest Tetrarch Tenacious Thisbe Thruster
  Tormentor Tornado Torrent Torrid  
Thornycroft Specials
Rosalind Radiant Retriever Taurus Teazer
Yarrow Specials
Sabrina Strongbow Surprise Sybille Truculent
  Tyrant Ulleswater  
Modified "R" Class
Ulster Undine Tower Trenchant Tristram
  Tirade Ursula Ulysses  
  Umpire Urchin Ursa  
<– Talisman Class Destroyers (UK) "V" Class –>


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