HMS Roland (DD-476): Difference between revisions

'''{{hms|Roland|DD-476}}''' was a [[Roland-class]] [[Destroyer]] of the [[Royal Manticoran Navy]]. Commissioned in 2012 as a founding chapter of the [[Tenth Fleet]] and its first hyper-capable ship, she served through two commissions and two fleets (the Tenth and later the [[Second Fleet]]) across nearly eight years before her decommissioning on 4 January 2020.

''Roland'' was commissioned on 23 May 2012 in the [[Tenth Fleet]] under [[LCDR]] Jack Yeager, the fleet's first hyper-capable ship.<ref name="BSD120502">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1205-02]]</ref> On 17 June 2014 she was assigned to Task Group 91.1,<ref name="ND14JU01">[[Naval Directive 14JU-01]]</ref> and later joined [[Destroyer Division 231]] within it.<ref name="ND16JUN01">[[Orders:Naval Directive 16JUN-01]]</ref> She took part in [[FleetEx FresCon 2016|FresCon 2016]], and on 23 August 2016 was placed in reserve when her crew transferred to the ''Invictus''-class [[Superdreadnought]] {{hms|Intractable|SD-459|hcn}}.<ref name="BSD1608-07">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1608-07]]</ref>

HMS ''Roland'' recommissioned on 10 June 2017 in the [[Second Fleet]] under [[LCDR]] Jeffry M. Ellis, transferring {{hmlac|Caleb|LAC-013}} to the reserve fleet. She was decommissioned on 4 January 2020, her crew transferred to [[HMSS Greenwich (SS-001)]].<ref name="BSD200106">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 2001-06]]</ref>

 

''Roland'' was the seed of several [[Tenth Fleet]] chapters across the San Francisco Bay Area and Central California. In January 2014 she launched Pinnace Roland-01 at San Francisco,<ref name="BSD140104">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1401-04]]</ref> which was commissioned that April as the ''Nike''-class [[Battlecruiser]] {{hms|Artemis|BC-592}}, the pinnace returning to ''Roland'' for further use.<ref name="BSD140403">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1404-03]]</ref> ''Artemis'' expanded in November 2015 into the [[Superdreadnought]] {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} under [[CDRE]] Michael Garcia, who had served as ''Artemis'''s founding bosun.<ref name="BSD151108">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1511-08]]</ref> A ''Roland'' plankowner, Jack Kane,<ref name="BSD120502" /> likewise carried into the ''Saganami-C''-class [[Heavy Cruiser]] {{hms|Wolf|CA-429}}, commissioned at Ceres in May 2014,<ref name="BSD140507">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1405-07]]</ref> whose command line under [[CAPTSG]] Sonja Thiede went on to raise the [[Superdreadnought]] {{hms|Thunderer|SD-323}} and the amphibious transport {{hms|Guadalcanal|LPH-02}}.<ref name="BSD160706">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1607-06]]</ref><ref name="BSD181109">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1811-09]]</ref> The sublight [[Light Attack Craft]] HMLAC ''Grimalkin'' had commissioned three months earlier as the fleet's first chapter,<ref name="BSD120202">[[Orders:BuShips Directive 1202-02]]</ref> but as its first hyper-capable ship, and the seed from which a battlecruiser and a superdreadnought were raised, ''Roland'' was central to the [[Tenth Fleet]]'s expansion across Northern and Central California.

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