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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=Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen|nick=Edward S. F. Fegen|appt=August, 1922{{NLJan23|p. 813}}|end=1923}}
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Revision as of 15:59, 21 July 2016

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. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 909.
  8. Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
  9. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 865.
  10. Spurgin Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/8. f. 360.
  11. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 813.
  12. Superseded that day. Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  13. Beckett Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/55/100. f. 100.
  14. 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 –>