H.M.S. Achates (1929)

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H.M.S. Achates (1929)
Pendant Number: H12
Builder: John Brown & Company
Laid down: 11 Sep, 1928
Launched: 4 Oct, 1929
Commissioned: 11 Feb, 1930
Sunk: 31 Dec, 1942

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

Service

Captain Miles was appointed in command of the light cruiser Comus in August, 1929, and while acting as Captain (D) of the Third Destroyer Flotilla, in command of "A" class destroyers Codrington, Acasta, and Active in 1930 through 1932. Achates was commissioned at Clydebank on 31 March, 1930.[1]

On 4 April, 1932, Active and Achates collided and Their Lordships informed Miles that "he must be held very seriously to blame for a grave error of judgment."[2]

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

Re-commissioned at Devonport on 23 July, 1935.[4]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 214.
  2. Miles Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 327.
  3. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 213.
  4. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 213.
  5. Cassidi Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/145/555. f. ?.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 214.
  7. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 213.
  8. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 213.
  9. "Command of the Achates." The Times (London, England), Monday, May 30, 1938; pg. 7; Issue 48007.
  10. The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 253.
  11. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  12. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  13. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  14. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  15. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  16. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  17. Uboat.net page on the ship.


"A" and "B" Class Destroyer
"A" Class Leader
  Codrington  
Destroyers
  Acasta Achates Active Antelope  
  Anthony Ardent Arrow Acheron  
Canadian Destroyers
  Saguenay Skeena  
"B" Class Leader
  Keith  
Destroyers
  Basilisk Beagle Blanche Boadicea  
  Boreas Brazen Brilliant Bulldog  
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