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HMS Malcolm (D 19)

Destroyer of the Admiralty Leader class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty Leader 
PennantD 19 
Built byCammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down27 Mar, 1918 
Launched29 May, 1919 
Commissioned14 Dec, 1919 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold to be broken up for scrap on 25 July 1945.

Commanding Officers:
Capt. Thomas Edgar Halsey, RN
31 July 1939 – 25 June 1940
DSO awarded on 7 June 1940

Capt. Augustus Willington Shelton Agar, VC, DSO, RN
25 June 1940 – 12 August 1940

Capt. Thomas Edgar Halsey, RN
12 August 1940 – 22 October 1940

Lt.Cdr. Christie, RN
22 October 1940 – 28 December 1940

Cdr. Clarence Dirsmore Howard-Johnston, DSC, RN
28 December 1940 - ???
DSO awarded on 2 January 1942

A/Cdr. Archibald Boyd Russell, RN
6 May 1942 – 21 December 1942

Cdr. John Marston Money, RN
21 December 1942 – May 1943

Lt. Ian Mosley Clegg, RN
May 1943 – (9) October 1943

???

Cdr. Hugh Lloyd-Williams, DSO, RNVR
7 December 1943 – still in command in July 1945

HMS Malcolm is not listed in the October 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Malcolm include:

11 May, 1940
HMS Malcolm (Capt. T.E. Halsey, RN) picks up 6 survivors from the British merchant Tringa that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-9 38 one and a half miles from the West Hinder buoy at the mouth of the river Scheldt in position 51º21'N, 02º55'E.

13 Sep, 1940
During the night of 13/14 September 1940, the British destroyers HMS Malcolm (Capt. T.E. Halsey, DSO, RN), HMS Wild Swan (Lt.Cdr. C.E.L. Sclater, RN) and HMS Venomous (Lt.Cdr. J.E.H. McBeath, DSO, RN) bombard Boulogne in a sweep along the French coast.

2 Mar, 1941
HMS Malcolm (Cdr. C.D. Howard-Johnston, DSC, RN) picks up 5 survivors from the British merchant Cadillac that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-552 northeast of Rockall in position 59º44'N, 11º16'W.

10 May, 1941
HMS Malcolm (Cdr. C.D. Howard-Johnston, DSC, RN) picks up 11 survivors from the British merchant Empire Caribou that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-556 in the North Atlantic in position 59º28'N, 35º44'W.

29 Jun, 1941
The German submarine U-651 was sunk south of Iceland, in position 59º52'N, 18º36'W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Malcolm )(Cdr. C.D. Howard-Johnston, DSC, RN), HMS Scimitar (Lt. R.D. Franks, RN), the corvettes HMS Arabis (Lt.Cdr. J.P. Stewart, RNR) and HMS Violet (Lt.Cdr. K.M. Nicholson, RNR) and the minesweeper HMS Speedwell (Lt.Cdr. J.J. Youngs, OBE, RNR). (see map)



Books dealing with this subject include:

Mostly from the Bridge, Mellis, David (Capt. DSC RN), 2004


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