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HMS Windsor (D 42)

Destroyer of the Admiralty V & W class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty V & W 
PennantD 42 
Built byScotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid downApr, 1917 
Launched21 Jun, 1918 
Commissioned28 Aug, 1918 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold to be broken up for scrap on 4 March 1947.

Commanding Officers:
HMS Windsor was in Dockyard Control during refit at the start of the 2nd World War

Lt.Cdr. Peter Douglas Herbert Raymond Pelly, RN
1 November 1939 - 9 July 1940

Lt.Cdr. George Pepys Huddart, RN
9 July 1940 - 1 April 1941

Lt.Cdr. the Hon John Montagu Granville Waldegrave, DSC, RN
1 April 1941 - 13 January 1942

Lt.Cdr. Derrick Henry Fellowes Hetherington, RN
13 January 1942 - May 1943
DSC awarded on ???

Lt. Lionel Robert Patrick Lawford, DSC, RN
May 1943 – 4 April 1945

Lt. J.V. Brothers, RN
4 April 1945 – May 1945 HMS Windsor is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Windsor include:

13 May, 1940
In the evening HMS Windsor (Lt.Cdr. P.D.H.R. Pelly, RN) evacuated the Government of the Netherlands from Hook of Holland to Britain after the Netherlands had been invaded by Germany on 10 May.

1 Jul, 1940
HMS Vesper (Lt.Cdr. W.E.F. Hussey, DSC, RN) and HMS Windsor (Lt.Cdr. P.D.H.R. Pelly, RN) together pick up 111 survivors from the British merchant Beignon that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-30 about 300 nautical miles west of Ushant in position 47º20'N, 10º30'W.




In Peril on the Sea
Kane, James S.

Books dealing with this subject include:

In Peril on the Sea, Kane, James S., 1994


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