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H 28

Built By: Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group: H21
Fate: Sold on 18th August 1944 to be scrapped at Troon.

Alecto with submarines H47, H28, H31 and H50 alongside at Portland in 1942

H 28

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Commanders
1918: Lieutenant   Ronald Adair Trevor
1928: Lieutenant   Henry Carlton Cumberbatch
1928: Lieutenant   Henry Carlton Cumberbatch
1930: Lieutenant   Richard Sheridan-Patterson
1932: Lieutenant   Denis Vaughan Sprague
1933: Lieutenant   William Kenneth Ramsden Cross
1939: Lieutenant   Hugh Stirling Mackenzie
1939: Lieutenant   Donald Emberton Mansfield
1939: Lieutenant   Compton Patrick Norman
1940: Lieutenant   Edward Arthur Wooward
1940: Lieutenant   Mervyn Robert George Wingfield
1941: Lieutenant   John Chaloner Ogle DSC
1941: Lieutenant   Paul Seymour Skelton
1941: Lieutenant   Desmond Samuel Royce Martin
1941: Lieutenant   Alastair Campbell Gillespie Mars
1941: Lieutenant   Leslie William Abel Bennington DSC
1942: Lieutenant   Christopher Henry Rankin
1942: Lieutenant   Kenneth Hugh Joy
1942: Lieutenant   Robert Evelyn Boddington
1942: Lieutenant   John Stirling Bridger
1942: Sub Lieutenant   William St. George Anderson DSC
1942: Lieutenant   Tobin Subremont Weston
1943: Lieutenant   James William Kelly
1943: Lieutenant   Edmund Charles Croswell DSC
1943: Lieutenant   William Prescott Brounger
1943: Lieutenant   Kenneth Henry Martin
1943: Acting Lieutenant   Reginald Lewis Willoughby (RNR)
1944: Acting Lieutenant   Walter Anthony Shrimplin (RNVR)
1944: Lieutenant   Anthony Stuart Melville-Ross DSC

H28 collided with a steamer in the Bruges Canal in May 1929

Events

18-03-1917  Laid Down
12-03-1918  Launched
29-06-1918  Completed

Adoption

Officially adopted by Dover Rural District
Warship Week from 7 Mar 1942 to 14 Mar 1942
H21 Specification
Comments

Comment by: david edwards on September 14th, 2025

the Navy List Oct 1931 has the "Lieut. in Command" as Lt. Richard Sheridan-Patterson. His service record shows command 17.12.30 - 23.11.31.

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