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Revision as of 09:14, 30 August 2018

H.M.S. Crescent (1931)
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
Launched: 29 Sep, 1931[1]
Commissioned: 21 Apr, 1932[2]
Collision: 25 Jun, 1940[3]
H.M.S. Crescent was one of fourteen "C" and "D" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commissioned at Chatham on 21 April, 1932 for service with the Second Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.[4]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  2. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 226.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  4. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 227.
  5. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 227.


"C" and "D" Class Destroyer
"C" Class Leader
  Kempenfelt  
Destroyers
  Comet Crescent Crusader Cygnet  
"D" Class Leader
  Duncan  
Destroyers
  Dainty Daring Decoy Defender  
  Delight Diamond Diana Duchess  
<– "A" and "B" Class Destroyers (UK) "E" and "F" Class –>