Ships
- HMS Ceres (D59) Lieutenant-Commander from 5 December 1941 · Relieved on 30 December 1941
- HMS Ceres (D59) Lieutenant-Commander from 3 January 1942 · Relieved on 6 April 1942
Harry William Vaughan Stephenson had Ceres on 7 December 1941, as a lieutenant-commander on the retired list. Uboat.net gives him two commands: 5 December to 30 December 1941, and 3 January to 6 April 1942.
The fetched page gives no birth date, no place and no date of death.
The rank table lists midshipman on 1 May 1917, acting sub-lieutenant on 15 September 1919, sub-lieutenant on 15 May 1920, lieutenant on 15 October 1921, and lieutenant-commander on 15 October 1929. A further line gives lieutenant-commander on the retired list with no date. He retired on 1 August 1937. The page lists no decoration and says it has no career narrative.
His officer page records that on 6 December 1941 Ceres left Aden to join convoy CM 23 the next day. He left her on 30 December, when Henry Hastings McWilliam took her for four days, and he had her again from 3 January until 6 April 1942. On 1 March, after WS15A, she was detached at Aden and transferred to the 5th Cruiser Squadron, Eastern Fleet. He turned her over to William Power Carne on 6 April, the month she moved to Kilindini. The pages do not list another command.
The fetched pages do not record a later appointment or a death.