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Revision as of 12:29, 8 July 2018

H.M.S. Ambuscade (1926)
Pendant Number: D38
Builder: Yarrow & Company
Laid down: 8 Dec, 1924
Launched: 15 Jan, 1926[1]
Completed: 1926[2]
Commissioned: 19 Apr, 1927[3]
Sold: Nov, 1946

H.M.S. Ambuscade was a Yarrow & Company-built prototype destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid 1920s. She and John I. Thornycroft & Company's Amazon 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 Ambuscade launched in 1913.

Construction and Service

Ambuscade was commissioned at The Nore on 19 April, 1927 under Commander Ambrose Thomas Norman Abbay.[4]

She re-commissioned at Chatham on 16 October 1928 for service with the Third Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[5]

Ambuscade commissioned at Chatham on 22 June, 1932 under the command of William Gronow Davis.[6]

She was re-commissioned on 31 August, 1933.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 37.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 37.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 215.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 215.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 215.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 215.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 214.
  8. ↑ Abbay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/338. f. ?.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 215.
  10. ↑ Abbay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/338. f. ?.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 215.
  12. ↑ Took command upon transfer to Fourth Destroyer Flotilla
  13. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Monday, Apr 25, 1932; pg. 8; Issue 46116.
  14. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jun 24, 1932; pg. 4; Issue 46168.
  15. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  16. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.

Bibliography


Destroyer H.M.S. Ambuscade



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