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==Service== | ==Service== | ||
Commissioned at Chatham on 15 November, 1932 for service in the [[Persian Gulf]].{{NLJan33|p. 217}} | Commissioned at Chatham on 15 November, 1932 for service in the [[Persian Gulf]].{{NLJan33|p. 217}} | ||
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| + | Re-commissioned at [[Malta]] on 12 December, 1938 for service in the [[Persian Gulf]].{{NLMay39|p. 262}} | ||
==Captains== | ==Captains== | ||
Revision as of 13:01, 30 March 2018
| H.M.S. Bideford (1931) | |
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| Builder: | Devonport Royal Dockyard[1] |
| Launched: | 1 Apr, 1931[2] |
| Broken up: | 1949[3] |
H.M.S. Bideford was one of eight Shoreham Class sloops completed for the Royal Navy.
Service
Commissioned at Chatham on 15 November, 1932 for service in the Persian Gulf.[4]
Re-commissioned at Malta on 12 December, 1938 for service in the Persian Gulf.[5]
Captains
- Commander Donal S. McGrath, 17 January, 1932[6] – 9 April, 1932[7] (removed from command following negative report from S.N.O., Persian Gulf)
- Captain Edward C. Denison, 25 March, 1932[8] – March, 1934
- Captain Charles A. Browne, – 8 November, 1934
- Captain Douglas B. Fisher, 8 November, 1934 – 1935 (and as S.N.O, Persian Gulf from 30 November, 1934)
- Captain Douglas B. Fisher, 29 June, 1936 – 1936 (vice "Barnes")
- Captain Geoffrey W. Wadham, – 18 February, 1937 (fact check this is correct Wadham)
- Captain George H. Faulkner, 18 February, 1937 – 17 April, 1938 (and as S.N.O, Persian Gulf from 20 February, 1937)
- Captain George H. Faulkner, 30 July, 1938 – 1 October, 1938 (and as S.O., Minesweeping Flotilla, Mediterranean)
- Captain George H. Faulkner, 1 November, 1938 – 2 December, 1938
- Captain Douglas Young-Jamieson, 14 November, 1938[9] – 12 September, 1939
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 56.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 56.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 56.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 217.
- ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 262.
- ↑ McGrath Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/96. f. 95.
- ↑ McGrath Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/96. f. 95.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 217.
- ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 262.
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