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==Service==
==Service==
Commissioned at Devonport on 8 November, 1932.
Commissioned at Devonport on 8 November, 1932.
''Defender'' re-commissioned at [[Hong Kong]] on 16 October, 1936 for service with the {{UK-DF|8}} on the [[China Station]].{{NLJul37|p. 229}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Renfrew Gotto|nick=Renfrew Gotto|appt=6 July, 1932{{NLJan33|p. 230}}|end=|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} ('''I, ''It.''''')|name=Donald George Frederick Wyville MacIntyre|nick=Donald G. F. W. MacIntyre|appt=March, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 229}}|end=}}
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Revision as of 12:37, 12 June 2018

H.M.S. Defender (1932)
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
Launched: 7 Apr, 1932[1]
Commissioned: 8 Nov, 1932[2]
Sunk: 11 Jul, 1941[3]

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

Service

Commissioned at Devonport on 8 November, 1932.

Defender re-commissioned at Hong Kong on 16 October, 1936 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla on the China Station.[4]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  2. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 230.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 229.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 230.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 229.


"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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