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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Crusader''''' 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. ''Crusader''''' was one of fourteen [["C" and "D" Class Destroyer (1931)|"C" and "D" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
  
 
==Service==
 
==Service==
 
Commissioned at Portsmouth on 2 May, 1932 for service with the {{UK-DF|2}} of the Home Fleet.{{NLJan33|p. 227}}
 
Commissioned at Portsmouth on 2 May, 1932 for service with the {{UK-DF|2}} of the Home Fleet.{{NLJan33|p. 227}}
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Re-commissioned at Portsmoiuth on 31 August, 1934.{{NLOct35|p. 226}}
  
 
She was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 30 December, 1936.{{NLJul37|p. 226}}
 
She was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 30 December, 1936.{{NLJul37|p. 226}}
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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John de Clare Richards|nick=John de C. Richards|appt=8 February, 1932{{NavAppts|Saturday, February 6, 1932, Issue 46050, p.21}}|end=May 1932{{INF}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Needham Knox|nick=John N. Knox|appt=2 May, 1932{{NLJan33|p. 227}}|end=27 November, 1934<ref>Knox Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/53/46.|}} f. 45.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Needham Knox|nick=John N. Knox|appt=2 May, 1932{{NLJan33|p. 227}}|end=27 November, 1934<ref>Knox Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/53/46.|}} f. 45.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Lyon Berthon|nick=Edward L. Berthon|appt=31 August, 1934{{NLOct35|p. 226}}|end=21 September, 1936{{INF}}}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Cecil Powis Frobisher Brown|nick=Cecil P. F. Brown|appt=20 April, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 226}}|end=}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Cecil Powis Frobisher Brown|nick=Cecil P. F. Brown|appt=20 April, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 226}}|end=}}
 
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==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
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Latest revision as of 13:03, 24 February 2021

H.M.S. Crusader (1931)
Pendant Number: H60
Builder: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard
Launched: 30 Sep, 1931[1]
Commissioned: 2 May, 1932[2]
Sunk: 14 Sep, 1942[3]

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

Service

Commissioned at Portsmouth on 2 May, 1932 for service with the Second Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.[4]

Re-commissioned at Portsmoiuth on 31 August, 1934.[5]

She was re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 30 December, 1936.[6]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  2. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 227.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  4. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 227.
  5. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 226.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 226.
  7. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Saturday, February 6, 1932, Issue 46050, p.21.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 227.
  9. Knox Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/46. f. 45.
  10. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 226.
  11. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 226.


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