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==Service==
==Service==
''Active'' was commissioned at Portsmouth on 10 April, 1930.{{NLJul31|p. 215}}
''Active'' was commissioned at Portsmouth on 10 April, 1930.{{NLJul31|p. 215}}
She commissioned at Malta on 23 February, 1937.{{NLJul37|p. 213}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Thomas Bernard Drew|nick=Thomas B. Drew|appt=10 April, 1930{{FC}}|end=25 August, 1930|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Thomas Bernard Drew|nick=Thomas B. Drew|appt=10 April, 1930{{FC}}|end=25 August, 1930|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alexander Robert Hammick|nick=Alexander R. Hammick|appt=3 August, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 215}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alexander Robert Hammick|nick=Alexander R. Hammick|appt=3 August, 1930{{NLJul31|p. 215}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}} ('''I ''Fr''''')|name=Bryan Gouthwaite Scurfield|nick=Bryan G. Scurfield|appt=June, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 213}}|end=}}
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Revision as of 23:56, 9 March 2018

H.M.S. Active (1929)
Pendant Number: H14
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie
Laid down: 10 Jul, 1928
Launched: 9 Jul, 1929
Commissioned: 9 Feb, 1930[Citation needed]
Sold: 7 Jul, 1947

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

Service

Active was commissioned at Portsmouth on 10 April, 1930.[1]

She commissioned at Malta on 23 February, 1937.[2]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 215.
  2. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 213.
  3. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 215.
  4. 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 –>