HMS Hope or HMS Moon

A number of Royal Navy service records for ratings administered by the Depot ship identified in the table below show two (sometimes three) destroyer names across the dates of the Battle of Jutland. Further research is to be conducted relating to the history and programmes of the relevant destroyers in order to seek to understand whether each man was serving in a Jutland ship. Ships shown with links were at Jutland. Ratings impacted by these ships have been given a status of B (blue) on the Battle of Jutland Crew Lists project.

HMS Hope was an Acorn-class destroyer. HMS Moon was an M-class destroyer completed in June 1915 and becoming one of the founder members of the 11th Destroyer Flotilla in September 1915. In the same month, HMS Hope is listed as still belonging to 2nd Destroyer Flotilla (which shared the depot ship HMS Blake with 11th DF) but now a tender to HMS Vivid (Devonport). By October, she was no longer listed under 2nd DF. It seems likely therefore that crew transfer from Hope to Moon took place during September 1915.