Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | River gunboat |
Class | Insect |
Pennant | T 62 |
Built by | Wood Skinner & Co. Ltd. (Newcastle, England U.K.) |
Ordered | 9 Feb 1915 |
Laid down | |
Launched | 8 Dec 1915 |
Commissioned | 28 Jan 1916 |
End service | |
History | Sunk as target off Ceylon on 1 May 1946. |
Commands listed for HMS Tarantula (T 62)
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Commander | From | To | ||
1 | Capt. Francis Cyril Flynn, RN | 8 Jun 1938 | 26 Mar 1940 | |
2 | Cdr. (emergency) Reginald Charles Ferrers Creer, RAN | 26 Mar 1940 | 16 Nov 1941 | |
3 | T/Lt. Norman Frank Francis, RNVR | 6 Nov 1942 | early 1943 |
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