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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Cygnet''''' was one of fourteen [["C" and "D" Class Destroyer (1931)|"C" and "D" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
 
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Cygnet''''' was one of fourteen [["C" and "D" Class Destroyer (1931)|"C" and "D" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
  
 
==Service==
 
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Commissioned at Devonport on 5 April, 1932.{{NLJan33|p. 228}}
 
Commissioned at Devonport on 5 April, 1932.{{NLJan33|p. 228}}
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Re-commissioned at Devonport on 31 August, 1934 for service with the {{UK-DF|2}}, [[Home Fleet]].{{NLOct35|p. 227}}
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''Cygnet'' and her sister, {{UK-Crescent}} were sold to Canada on 20 October 1936, ''Cygnet'' becoming '''H.M.C.S. ''St. Laurent'''''.
  
 
==Captains==
 
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Latest revision as of 20:36, 14 January 2022

H.M.S. Cygnet (1931)
Pendant Number: H83
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
Launched: 29 Sep, 1931[1]
Commissioned: 5 Apr, 1932[2]
Broken up: 1947[3]

H.M.S. Cygnet was one of fourteen "C" and "D" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commissioned at Devonport on 5 April, 1932.[4]

Re-commissioned at Devonport on 31 August, 1934 for service with the Second Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet.[5]

Cygnet and her sister, Crescent were sold to Canada on 20 October 1936, Cygnet becoming H.M.C.S. St. Laurent.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  2. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 228.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 228.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 227.
  6. ↑ Rolfe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/113. f. 113.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 228.
  8. ↑ Rolfe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/113. f. 113.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). 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 –>


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