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'''H.M.S. ''Amazon''''' was a Thornycroft-built prototype destroyer built for the [[Royal Navy]] in the mid 1920s. She and [[Yarrow]]'s [[H.M.S. Ambuscade (1926)|''Ambuscade'']] helped determine the design factors that would inform more significant post-war construction, culminating in the [["A" and "B" Class Destroyer (1929)|"A" and "B" Class Destroyer]]s of 1929-30. | '''H.M.S. ''Amazon''''' was a Thornycroft-built prototype destroyer built for the [[Royal Navy]] in the mid 1920s. She and [[Yarrow & Company]]'s [[H.M.S. Ambuscade (1926)|''Ambuscade'']] helped determine the design factors that would inform more significant post-war construction, culminating in the [["A" and "B" Class Destroyer (1929)|"A" and "B" Class Destroyer]]s of 1929-30. | ||
There was an earlier [[H.M.S. Amazon (1908)|''Amazon'' launched in 1908]]. | There was an earlier [[H.M.S. Amazon (1908)|''Amazon'' launched in 1908]]. | ||
Revision as of 20:39, 6 April 2018
| H.M.S. Amazon (1926) | |
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| Pendant Number: | D39 |
| Builder: | John I. Thornycroft & Company |
| Laid down: | 29 Jan, 1925[1] |
| Launched: | 27 Jan, 1926[2] |
| Completed: | 1926[3] |
| Commissioned: | 9 May, 1927[4] |
| Sold: | 24 Oct, 1948[5] |
H.M.S. Amazon was a Thornycroft-built prototype destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid 1920s. She and Yarrow & Company's Ambuscade helped determine the design factors that would inform more significant post-war construction, culminating in the "A" and "B" Class Destroyers of 1929-30.
There was an earlier Amazon launched in 1908.
Construction and Service
Amazon was commissioned at Portsmouth on 9 May, 1927 under the command of Commander Francis Howard, who had been appointed to the ship almost a year earlier.[6]
Re-commissioned at Portsmouth 16 October, 1928 for service wqith the Third Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[7]
She commissioned at Portsmouth on 1 June, 1932.[8]
Re-commissioned on 3 September, 1934.[9]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commander Francis Howard, 26 July, 1926[10] – 5 November, 1928
- Commander Cecil R. E. W. Perryman, 29 October, 1928[11] – 19 April, 1930[12] (may have been loaned out part of the time)
- Commander Eric J. Shelley, 19 April, 1930[Inference] – 24 April, 1931
- Commander Philip H. Calderon, 26 April, 1932[13] (transferred in from Tenedos)
- Lieutenant-Commander Lindsay de Villiers, 15 December, 1936[14]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 37.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 37.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 37.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 215.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 37.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 215.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 215.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 214.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 214.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 215.
- ↑ Perryman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/117. f. 125.
- ↑ Perryman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/117. f. 125.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 214.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 214.
Bibliography
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