H.M.S. Voyager (1918)

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H.M.S. Voyager (1918)
Pendant Number: G.36 (Jun 1918)[1]
Builder: A. Stephen[2]
Ordered: December, 1916[3]
Launched: 8 May, 1918[4]
Completed: 24 Jun, 1918[5]
Commissioned: 8 Jun, 1918[6]
Grounded: 23 Sep, 1942[7]
Fate: Destroyed by crew

H.M.S. Voyager was one of twenty-two destroyers of the "W" class.

Service

Voyager was commissioned on 8 June, 1918[8] and joined the Eleventh Destroyer Flotilla in July.[9] She served with the Eleventh until it was disbanded in March, 1919, at which point she was allocated along with the Eleventh's other "V"s and "W"s to the new First Destroyer Flotilla.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  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. 73.
  5. Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 312.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 896.
  7. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 73.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 896.
  9. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1918). p. 12.
  10. Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 11.
  11. The Navy List. (July, 1920). p. 896.
  12. The Navy List. (December, 1920). p. 896.
  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


"W" Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Wakeful Watchman Walpole Whitley Walker
Westcott Walrus Wolfhound Warwick Wessex
Voyager Whirlwind Wrestler Winchelsea Winchester
  Westminster Windsor Wryneck Waterhen  
Thornycroft Specials
  Wolsey Woolston  
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