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HMS Watchman (D 26)

Destroyer of the Admiralty V & W class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty V & W 
PennantD 26 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down17 Jan, 1917 
Launched2 Dec, 1917 
Commissioned26 Jan, 1918 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryReconstruction to Long Range Escort finished in August 1943.

Scrapped in July 1945.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. Vernon Hammersley-Heenan, RN
17 June 1939 – 5 February 1940

Lt.Cdr. Edward Campbell Lacy Day, RN
5 February 1940 – 4 July 1942

Lt.Cdr. John Malcolm Rodgers, RN
4 July 1942 - ???

HMS Watchman was in Dockyard Control during reconstruction / refit

Lt.Cdr. G.H.D. Williams, RN
August 1943 – 14 March 1944

Lt. Charles Edward Sheen, DSC, RN
14 March 1944 – 27 May 1944

T/A/Lt.Cdr. John Richard Clarke, DSC, RNVR
27 May 1944 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List
Bar to DSC awarded on 6 July 1945

HMS Watchman is not listed in the October 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Watchman include:

7 Apr, 1945
The German submarine U-1195 was sunk in the English Channel in position 50º33'17N, 00º56'09"W, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Watchman (T/A/Lt.Cdr. J.R. Clarke, DSC, RNVR). (see map)


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