Ships History

Build/Fate Details

• HMS RAMILLIES Built by William Beardmore & Co. (Dalmuir, Scotland)
• Laid down 12 Nov, 1913
• Launched 12 Sep 1916
• Commissioned 1 Sep 1917
• End service 31 Jan 1945

• Decommissioned into reserve on 31 August 1945.

• Sold on 20 February 1948 to Arnott Young, arrived Cairn Ryan 23 April 1948 for stripping, Hulk went to Troon for scrapping in October 1949.

Battle Honours

• Atlantic 1939-1945

• Spartivento 1940

• Mediterranean 1940-1945

• Diego Saurez 1942

• Normandy 1944

• South Of France

Commanding Officers

• Capt. Harold Tom Baillie-Grohman, OBE. DSO. RN.
  5 January 1939 – 27 November 1940

• Capt. Arthur Duncan Read, RN.
  27 November 1940 - 23 September 1941

• Capt. Desmond Nevill Cooper Tufnell, DSC. RN.
  23 September 1941 - 4 August 1942

• Cdr. Leslie Newton Brownfield RN.
  4th August 1942 – 12 January 1943

• Capt. Geoffrey Meredyth Keble-White RN.
  12 January 1943 - February 1943

• Cdr. George Verner Motley Dolphin RN.
  February 1943 – July 1943

• Capt. Gervase Boswell Middleton CBE. RN.
  July 1943 – 20 February 1945

• A/Cdr. Jack M. D. Hunter, RN (retired)
  20 February 1945 – still in command in April 1945

Notable Persons who served aboard H.M.S. Ramillies

• H.R.H. Prince Philip
  After joining the Royal Navy, he was commissioned as a midshipman in January 1940. Philip spent four months on the battleship H.M.S. Ramillies, protecting convoys of the Australian Expeditionary Force in the Indian Ocean

• David Whitfield
  Popular singer during the 1950's. Best known for the hit record 'Cara Mia'

• Charles Wheeler
  BBC Correspondent.