An item reported the departure from Copenhagen, Denmark on 8 February of the British destroyers HMS Thanet (1) towards Libau [Liepaja, Latvia] and Tenedos (2) towards Danzig.
Notes
1. H29. Part of S or Modified Trenchant-class destroyers preceded by R and W-classes succeeded by modified W-class, building ordered in July 1917, laid donw by Hawthorn Leslie&Company, Hebburn on 13 December 1917, launched on 5 November 1918, commissioned on 3 August 1919 and sunk bythe Japanese underway from Hong Kong to Singapore on 27 January 1942.
2. Built 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 airattack on Colombo, Ceylon on 5 April 1942. Part of S or Modified Trenchant-class destroyers preceded by R and W-classes succeeded by modified W-class.
Source
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-24-98-79
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