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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Lindsay Burnett|nick=Robert L. Burnett|appt=December, 1935{{MackieRNW}}|end=March, 1939{{MackieRNW}}|precBy=New Command}}
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptAU}}|name=Harold Bruce Farncomb|nick=Harold B. Farncomb|appt=20 June, 1939<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-perth-i Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. ''Perth''].</ref>|end=6 June, 1940<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-perth-i Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. ''Perth''].</ref>|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Perth''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Philip Weyland Bowyer-Smyth|nick=Philip W. Bowyer-Smyth|appt=6 June, 1940<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-perth-i Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. ''Perth''].</ref>|end=1 September, 1941<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-perth-i Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. ''Perth''].</ref>|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Perth''}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{CommAU}}|name=Charles Rupert Reid|nick=Charles R. Reid|appt=1 September, 1941<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-perth-i Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. ''Perth''].</ref>|end=24 October, 1941<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-perth-i Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. ''Perth''].</ref>|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Perth''}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptAU}}|name=Hector Macdonald Laws Waller|nick=Hector Macd. L. Waller|appt=24 October, 1941<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-perth-i Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. ''Perth''].</ref>|end=1 March, 1941<ref>[http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-perth-i Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. ''Perth''].</ref>|as=Captain of H.M.A.S. ''Perth''|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=killed when vessel lost}}
 
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Revision as of 14:38, 14 November 2016

H.M.S. Perth (1934)
Builder: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard[1]
Laid down: 26 Jun, 1933[2]
Launched: 27 Jul, 1934[3]
Completed: 6 Jul, 1936[4]
Sunk: 1 Mar, 1942
H.M.A.S. Perth was one of three Perth Class light cruisers, and one of two completed for the Royal Navy. She began service in the Royal Navy as H.M.S. Amphion, but transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1934 and took on her Australian designation.

Service

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See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 30.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 30.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 30.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 30.
  5. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  6. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  7. ↑ Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. Perth.
  8. ↑ Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. Perth.
  9. ↑ Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. Perth.
  10. ↑ Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. Perth.
  11. ↑ Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. Perth.
  12. ↑ Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. Perth.
  13. ↑ Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. Perth.
  14. ↑ Royal Australian Navy page on H.M.A.S. Perth.


Perth Class Light Cruiser
  Hobart Perth Sydney  
  Minor Cruisers (AU)  
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