H.M.A.S. Canberra (1927)

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H.M.A.S. Canberra (1927)
Builder: John Brown & Company[1]
Laid down: 9 Sep, 1925[2]
Launched: 31 May, 1927[3]
Completed: 9 Jul, 1928[4]
Sunk: 9 Aug, 1942[5]
H.M.A.S. Canberra was one of seven Kent Class cruisers completed for the Royal Australian Navy.

Service

Commissioned at Clydebank on 9 July, 1928.[6] In mid-1931 she was bearing Commodore, First Class Leonard Stanley Holbrook, Commanding H.M. Australian Squadron.

She re-commissioned at Sydney on 1 January, 1932.[7]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 293.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 26.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 293.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 296.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 296.
  9. ↑ Bradley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/60. f. 418.
  10. ↑ Bradley Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/60. f. 418.

Bibliography


Kent Class Heavy Cruiser
Royal Navy
Berwick Cornwall Cumberland Kent Suffolk
Royal Australian Navy
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