Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Escort destroyer |
Class | Hunt (Type I) |
Pennant | L 82 |
Built by | Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend |
Ordered | 11 Apr 1939 |
Laid down | 10 Aug 1939 |
Launched | 7 Jun 1940 |
Commissioned | 30 Dec 1940 |
End service | |
History | Sold to the Ecuadorian Navy on 18 October 1954 and renamed Presidente Velasco Ibarra. |
Commands listed for HMS Meynell (L 82)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Lt.Cdr. William Howard Farrington, RN | 14 Aug 1940 | 23 Aug 1942 |
2 | Capt. Cecil Ramsden Langworthy Parry, RN | 23 Aug 1942 | 15 Sep 1942 |
3 | Lt. Brian Mortimer Duncan I'Anson, RN | 15 Sep 1942 | 4 Aug 1944 |
4 | Lt. Jack Bitmead, DSO, RN | 4 Aug 1944 | 25 Sep 1946 |
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