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Revision as of 19:15, 6 April 2018

H.M.S. Anthony (1929)
Pendant Number: H40
Builder: Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Laid down: 30 Jul, 1928
Launched: 24 Apr, 1929
Commissioned: 14 Feb, 1930
Sold: 21 Feb, 1948

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

Service

Anthony was commissioned at Chatham on 11 March, 1930 for duty with the Third Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[1]

Lt. Cdr. James Abernethy McCoy re-commissioned her at Chatham on 18 October, 1932 for continued service with the Third Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[2]

Reduced to Reserve on 25 May, 1937.[3]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 216.
  2. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 215.
  3. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 215.
  4. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 216.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 215.


"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  
<– Modified "W" Class Destroyers (UK) "C" and "D" Class –>