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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Perth''''' was one of three [[Perth Class Cruiser (1934)|''Perth'' Class light cruisers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
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|fg=gold|bg=black}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.A.S. ''Perth''''' was one of three [[Perth Class Cruiser (1934)|''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 1939 and took on her Australian designation.
  
 
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Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 15 June, 1936.{{NLMay39|p. 256}}
  
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Lindsay Burnett|nick=Robert L. Burnett|appt=5 December, 1935|end=1 March, 1939|precBy=New Command|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Amphion''}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=William Leslie Graham Adams|nick=William L. G. Adams|appt=2 May, 1939{{NLMay39|p. 255}}|end=20 June, 1939{{INF}}|as=Captain of H.M.S. ''Amphion''}}
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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, 1942<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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Latest revision as of 12:32, 20 June 2019

H.M.A.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 1939 and took on her Australian designation.

Service

Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 15 June, 1936.[5]

Captains

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. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 256.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 255.
  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.


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