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==Service==
==Service==
''Decoy'' re-commissioned at [[Hong Kong]] on 16 October, 1936 for service with the {{UK-DF|8}} on the [[China Station]].{{NLJul37|p. 228}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
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Revision as of 12:23, 12 June 2018

H.M.S. Decoy (1932)
Builder: John I. Thornycroft & Company
Launched: 7 Jun, 1932[1]
Broken up: 1946[2]

H.M.S. Decoy was one of fourteen "C" and "D" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Decoy re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 16 October, 1936 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla 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. 228.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 229.
  5. ↑ Kerr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/137. f. 136.
  6. ↑ Kerr Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/137. f. 136.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 228.


"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 –>


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