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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Jack Grant Bickford|nick=Jack G. Bickford|appt=10 October, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 216}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Gerald Roger Cousins|nick=Gerald R. Cousins|appt=9 December, 1929<ref>Cousins Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/56/124.|}} f. 126.</ref>|end=17 April, 1930<ref>Cousins Service Record {{TNA|ADM 196/56/124.|}} f. 126.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Reginald Francis Morice|nick=Reginald F. Morice|appt=8 October, 1932{{NLJul34|p. 216}}|end=}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Arthur Luard Pears|nick=Arthur L. Pears|appt=17 April, 1930<ref>Pears Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/176.|}} f. 178.</ref>|end=1 November, 1930<ref>Pears Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/56/176.|}} f. 178.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Jack Grant Bickford|nick=Jack G. Bickford|appt=10 October, 1930<ref>Bickford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/43.|}} f. 63.</ref>{{NLJul31|p. 216}}|end=3 October, 1932<ref>Bickford Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/43.|}} f. 63.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Reginald Francis Morice|nick=Reginald F. Morice|appt=3 October, 1932<ref>Morice Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/56/145.|}} f. 147.</ref>|end=6 September, 1935<ref>Morice Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/56/145.|}} f. 147.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Robert Deverell|nick=George R. Deverell|appt=23 July, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 216}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=George Robert Deverell|nick=George R. Deverell|appt=23 July, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 216}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Eric Vernon St. John Morgan|nick=Eric V. St. J. Morgan|appt=1 May, 1939{{NLMay39|p. 257}}|end=30 June, 1939{{INF}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Bagot Walker|nick=William B. Walker|appt=12 August, 1938<ref>Walker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/53.|}} f. ?.</ref>|end=9 February, 1939<ref>Walker Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/53.|}} f. ?.</ref>}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Eric Vernon St. John Morgan|nick=Eric V. St. J. Morgan|appt=1 May, 1939{{NavAppts|17 Apr. 1939, p. 23}}{{NLMay39|p. 257}}|end=30 June, 1939{{INF}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Herbert Wyndham Williams|nick=Herbert W. Williams|appt=30 June, 1939{{UBAlly|2668}}|end=8 January, 1941{{UBAlly|2668}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Herbert Wyndham Williams|nick=Herbert W. Williams|appt=30 June, 1939{{UBAlly|2668}}|end=8 January, 1941{{UBAlly|2668}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Addison Joe Baker-Cresswell|nick=Addison J. Baker-Cresswell|appt=8 January, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}|end=February, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Addison Joe Baker-Cresswell|nick=Addison J. Baker-Cresswell|appt=8 January, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}|end=February, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Richard Edmund Hyde-Smith|nick=Richard E. Hyde-Smith|appt=13 March, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}|end=mid 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Richard Edmund Hyde-Smith|nick=Richard E. Hyde-Smith|appt=13 March, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}|end=4 July, 1941<ref>Hyde-Smith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/193.|}} f. 192.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alec Murray McKillop|nick=Alec M. McKillop|appt=24 September, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}|end=16 March, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Alec Murray McKillop|nick=Alec M. McKillop|appt=24 September, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}|end=16 March, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Wentworth Fitzroy|nick=William W. Fitzroy|appt=16 March, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}|end=early 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}|succBy=Vessel Written Off|note=ship essentially destroyed in August, 1943}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Wentworth Fitzroy|nick=William W. Fitzroy|appt=16 March, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}|end=early 1944{{UBAllyWarship|4346}}|succBy=Vessel Written Off|note=ship essentially destroyed in August, 1943}}

Latest revision as of 13:07, 24 September 2021

H.M.S. Arrow (1929)
Pendant Number: H42
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs
Laid down: 20 Aug, 1928
Launched: 22 Aug, 1929
Commissioned: 23 Apr, 1930[1]
Blown up: 8 Apr, 1943

H.M.S. Arrow was one of eleven "A" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Arrow was commissioned at Chatham on 23 April, 1930.[2]

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 18 October, 1932 for service with the Third Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[3]

She re-commissioned at Chatham on 23 July, 1935 for service with the Third Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[4]

Commissioned at Chatham on 2 March, 1938.[5]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 216.
  2. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 216.
  3. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 215.
  4. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 216.
  5. The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 257.
  6. Cousins Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/56/124. f. 126.
  7. Cousins Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/56/124. f. 126.
  8. Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/176. f. 178.
  9. Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/176. f. 178.
  10. Bickford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/43. f. 63.
  11. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 216.
  12. Bickford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/43. f. 63.
  13. Morice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/145. f. 147.
  14. Morice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/145. f. 147.
  15. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 216.
  16. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/53. f. ?.
  17. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/53. f. ?.
  18. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 17 Apr. 1939, p. 23.
  19. The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 257.
  20. Uboat.net page on the man.
  21. Uboat.net page on the man.
  22. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  23. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  24. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  25. Hyde-Smith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/193. f. 192.
  26. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  27. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  28. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  29. Uboat.net page on the ship.


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"A" Class Leader
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  Anthony Ardent Arrow Acheron  
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  Keith  
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