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Revision as of 17:35, 30 August 2018

H.M.S. Duchess (1932)
Builder: Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Launched: 19 Jul, 1932[1]
Collision: 12 Dec, 1939[2]
H.M.S. Duchess was one of fourteen "C" and "D" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Re-commissioned on 11 December, 1935 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla, operating on the China Station.[3]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  3. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 234.
  4. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 235.
  5. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 234.


"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 –>