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Revision as of 23:54, 9 March 2018

H.M.S. Acheron (1929)
Pendant Number: H48
Builder: Thornycroft
Laid down: 20 Aug, 1928
Launched: 22 Aug, 1929
Commissioned: 14 Apr, 1930
Mined: 17 Dec, 1940

H.M.S. Acheron was one of eleven "A" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

She commissioned at Portsmouth on 8 February, 1937.[1]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 213.
  2. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 215.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 213.


"A" and "B" Class Destroyer
"A" Class Leader
  Codrington  
Destroyers
  Acasta Achates Active Antelope  
  Anthony Ardent Arrow Acheron  
Canadian Destroyers
  Saguenay Skeena  
"B" Class Leader
  Keith  
Destroyers
  Basilisk Beagle Blanche Boadicea  
  Boreas Brazen Brilliant Bulldog  
<– Modified "W" Class Destroyers (UK) "C" and "D" Class –>


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