H.M.S. Arrow (1929)

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H.M.S. Arrow (1929)
Pendant Number: H42
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs
Laid down: 20 Aug, 1928
Launched: 22 Aug, 1929
Commissioned: 23 Apr, 1930[1]
Blown up: 8 Apr, 1943

H.M.S. Arrow was one of eleven "A" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Arrow was commissioned at Chatham on 23 April, 1930.[2]

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 18 October, 1932 for service with the Third Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[3]

She re-commissioned at Chatham on 23 July, 1935 for service with the Third Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[4]

Commissioned at Chatham on 2 March, 1938.[5]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 216.
  2. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 216.
  3. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 215.
  4. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 216.
  5. The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 257.
  6. Cousins Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/56/124. f. 126.
  7. Cousins Service Record The National Archives. ADM 196/56/124. f. 126.
  8. Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/176. f. 178.
  9. Pears Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/176. f. 178.
  10. Bickford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/43. f. 63.
  11. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 216.
  12. Bickford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/43. f. 63.
  13. Morice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/145. f. 147.
  14. Morice Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/145. f. 147.
  15. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 216.
  16. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/53. f. ?.
  17. Walker Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/53. f. ?.
  18. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 17 Apr. 1939, p. 23.
  19. The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 257.
  20. Uboat.net page on the man.
  21. Uboat.net page on the man.
  22. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  23. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  24. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  25. Hyde-Smith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/193. f. 192.
  26. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  27. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  28. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  29. Uboat.net page on the ship.


"A" and "B" Class Destroyer
"A" Class Leader
  Codrington  
Destroyers
  Acasta Achates Active Antelope  
  Anthony Ardent Arrow Acheron  
Canadian Destroyers
  Saguenay Skeena  
"B" Class Leader
  Keith  
Destroyers
  Basilisk Beagle Blanche Boadicea  
  Boreas Brazen Brilliant Bulldog  
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