Naval Service - William John Griffiths

Ship Tender FromToShipTender
Impregnable   1917-10-20  1918-02-15  Training Ship - Devonport   
Ganges   1918-02-16  1918-08-21  Training Ship - Shotley   
Cumberland   1918-08-22  1919-01-09  Monmouth class cruiser   
Vivid 1   1919-01-10  1919-05-29  RN Barracks Keyham Plymouth (Gunnery Training School?)   
Pembroke 1   1919-05-30  1919-06-17  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Prince George Obdurate  1919-06-18  1919-08-31  Majestic class battleship  Admiralty M class destroyer 
Actaeon   1919-09-01  1919-11-18  Shore Station - Sheerness (Torpedo Training School ?)   
Pembroke 1   1919-11-19  1919-05-28  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Castor   1919-05-29  1921-08-30  Cambrian class cruiser   
Pembroke 1   1921-08-31  1921-12-19  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Ceres   1921-12-20  1922-09-18  Ceres class cruiser   
Pembroke 1   1922-09-19  1923-03-09  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Benbow   1923-03-10  1924-08-30  Iron Duke class battleship   
Egmont   1924-08-31  1924-09-08  Receiving ship - Malta?   
Benbow   1924-09-09  1925-10-12  Iron Duke class battleship   
Pembroke 1   1925-10-13  1926-11-08  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Canterbury   1926-11-09  1929-04-30  Cambrian class cruiser   
Pembroke 1-2   1929-05-01  1929-08-02  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Cleopatra   1929-08-03  1929-09-30  Caroline class light cruiser   
Tamar II Thracian  1929-10-01  1931-11-27  Shore Station - Hong Kong  Admiralty S class destroyer 
Pembroke 2 Thracian  1931-11-28  1932-02-11  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard  Admiralty S class destroyer 
Pembroke 1   1932-02-12  1932-08-29  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Renown   1932-08-30  1933-05-05  Renown class battlecruiser   
Pembroke 1   1933-05-06  1933-06-10  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
-- (Marshall Soult)   0000-00-00  0000-00-00  Gunnery Training Ship - inserted at top of page on service record between Pembrokes 1 & 2   
Pembroke 2   1933-06-11  1933-07-03  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Pembroke 1   1933-07-04  1933-07-05  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Pembroke 2 (Maintenance Reserve)   1933-07-06  1934-05-29  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Pembroke 1   1934-05-30  1934-06-11  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Rochester?   1934-06-12  1936-12-17  Shoreham class sloop   
Pembroke 1   1936-12-18  1937-04-21  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Emerald   1937-04-22  1938-08-15  Emerald class light cruiser   
Pembroke 1   1938-08-16  1938-12-29  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Pembroke 2 Foxhound  1938-12-30  1940-12-31  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard  F class destroyer 
Cormorant Foxhound  1941-01-01  1941-08-09  Osprey class sloop - receiving ship Gibraltar  F class destroyer 
Orlando Foxhound  1941-08-10  1941-09-29  Shore Station - Greenock  F class destroyer 
Pembroke 1   1941-09-30  1941-12-19  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Dutch Ship Colombia   1941-12-20  1943-02-28  Royal Dutch Navy - Submarine Depot Ship. Torpedoed 27-2-1943 by U516 en route to Simonstown SA off the S African Coast between Port Alfred and East London   
Assegai   1943-03-01  1943-04-16  Shore Station - Durban Combined Operations training establishment, transit pool and General Drafting Office for the Eastern and Mediterranean Fleets and the South Atlantic Station   
Bulolo   1943-04-17  1943-05-07  Landing Ship Headquarters vessel converted merchantman   
Nile Sphinx  1943-05-08  1943-06-23  Shore Station - Alexandria  Accomodation camp - Alexandria 
Stag (A)   1943-06-24  1943-06-28  Shore Station - Port Said   
Naval Party 840   1943-06-29  1943-09-20  Attached to 51st Division for the invasion of Sicily (840 : Port Party Syracuse, allocated 27.02.43/left Clyde 03.43/Sicily 06.43 – 02/11.44* (ARCHAIS was the name selected for this port – not used))   
St Angelo   1943-09-21  1943-10-08  Shore Station - Malta   
Odyssey   1943-10-09  1943-10-31  Naval Party accounting base - Ilfracombe   
Alis??   1943-11-01  1944-10-23  HMS Alisma - Flower class corvette ??   
Pembroke   1944-10-24  1945-04-05  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard   
Royal Albert (NP1754)   1945-04-06  1945-04-08  Base for Naval Parties London/Berlin. (1754 : Commodore in Charge Hamburg – Chelsea Court SW 3 01-13.04.45 (SBA 2653)/ passage CCA 04.45/Bourg Leopold 29.04.45/Enschlade 05.45/Hamburg 07.05.45 – title lapsed 20.10.45)  HMS Royal Albert is believed to have been in the Minden area in the Summer of 1945 before moving to Hamburg in September of that year.  
Pembroke   1945-08-09  1945-10-24  Shore Station - Chatham Dockyard