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Sunday 31 December 2023

British destroyers HMS Thanet and Tenedos 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 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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