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HMS Versatile (D 32)

Destroyer of the Admiralty V & W class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty V & W 
PennantD 32 
Built byHawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down31 Jan, 1917 
Launched31 Oct, 1917 
Commissioned11 Feb, 1918 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryReconstruction to Long Range Escort finished in September 1943.

Sold to be broken up for scrap in June 1948.

Commanding Officers:

Cdr. Thomas Andrew Hussey, RN (retired)
15 June 1939 – June 1940

Cdr. John Henry Jauncey, RN (retired)
June 1940 – 29 April 1940

Lt.Cdr. Jack Barrington Palmer, RN
29 April 1941 – November 1942

Lt. Denis Guy Douglas Hall-Wright, RN
November 1942 - ???

HMS Versatile was in Dockyard Control during conversion / refit

Lt.Cdr. Geoffrey Stuart Corlett, DSO, RN
1 September 1943 – December 1943

Lt. Gilbert Charles Potter, DSC, RN
December 1943 – 3 October 1944

Lt. Alfred Lee Harper, RN
3 October 1944 – still in command in April 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Versatile is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy list 


Noteable events involving Versatile include:

27 Jun, 1940
About 150 nautical miles off Ushant, HMS Versatile (Cdr. J.H. Jauncey, (retired), RN) picks up 13 survivors from the British special service vessel HMS Prunella.

The Prunella has been torpedoed and sunk on 21 June 1940 by the German submarine U-28 in approximate position 49º20'N, 08º40'W.


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