H.M.S. Sterling (1918)

H.M.S. Sterling (1918)
Pendant Number:	F.A3 (Mar 1919)
Builder:	Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Ordered:	Apr, 1917 (1st Order)
Launched:	8 Oct, 1918
Completed:	Mar, 1919
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H.M.S. Sterling was one of sixty-seven "S" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy as the Great War was ending.

Service

Sterling recommissioned in Reserve at Chatham on 24 August, 1920.

She was re-commissioned on 7 February, 1925 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet.

Re-commissioned at the Nore on 7 January, 1927 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla on the China Station.

Re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 1 October, 1929 for continued service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant in Command Lawrence F. N. Ommanney, 5 May, 1919 – 11 July, 1919
• Lieutenant & Commander Francis T. Hare, 15 July, 1919 – 6 November, 1919
• Commander Clement R. Dane, 1 November, 1919 – 8 January, 1920  (and in charge of a group of destroyers in reserve)
• Commander Arthur A. Scott, 8 January, 1920 – 15 July, 1921  (and for command of a group of T.B.Ds. in reserve)
• Lieutenant-Commander Brian C. Gourley, 11 July, 1921 – 20 February, 1922
• Lieutenant-Commander Bernard A. W. Warburton-Lee, 7 February, 1925 – 30 March, 1926
• Lieutenant-Commander Stephen H. T. Arliss, 30 March, 1926 – 1929^{[Fact Check]}
• Lieutenant-Commander Frank C. Husband-Clutton, 3 March, 1931
• Lieutenant-Commander Robert Dalby, c. early 1932 – 1932  (xfer in from Veteran, taking ship back from China Station)

See Also

• Wikipedia