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Friday, 19 January 2024

British destroyers HMS Tenedos and Torbay active in the Baltic according to the weekly appreciation of matters of naval interest No. 61 for the week ended 14 February 1920

An item reported the arrival on 9 February of the British destroyer HMS Tenedos (1) at Danzig and the departure from last mentioned port by the Torbay (2) towards Copenhagen, Denmark.

Notes

1. Building ordered on 9 April 1917, laid down by Hawthorn Leslie on 6 December 1917, launched on 21 October 1918, commissioned in 1919 and sunk in a Japanese air attack on Colombo, Ceylon on 5 April 1942. Part of S-class destroyers preceded by R and W-classes succeeded by modified W-class.

2. Part of Thornycroft S-class destroyers preceded by R and W-classes succeeded by modified W-class. Building ordered in June 1917, launched by Thornycroft on 6 March 1919, acquired by the Canadian navy on 1 March 1928, renamed Champlain, decommissioned on 25 November 1936 and broken up in 1937.

Source

The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-24-98-79

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