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'''H.M.S. ''Ambuscade''''' was a [[Yarrow]]-built prototype destroyer built for the [[Royal Navy]] in the mid 1920s.  She and [[John I. Thornycroft & Company]]'s [[H.M.S. Amazon (1926)|''Amazon'']] helped determine the design factors that would inform more significant post-war construction, culminating in the [["A" and "B" Class Destroyer (1929)|"A" and "B" Class Destroyer]]s of 1929-30.
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'''H.M.S. ''Ambuscade''''' was a [[Yarrow & Company]]-built prototype destroyer built for the [[Royal Navy]] in the mid 1920s.  She and [[John I. Thornycroft & Company]]'s [[H.M.S. Amazon (1926)|''Amazon'']] helped determine the design factors that would inform more significant post-war construction, culminating in the [["A" and "B" Class Destroyer (1929)|"A" and "B" Class Destroyer]]s of 1929-30.
  
 
There was an earlier [[H.M.S. Ambuscade (1913)|''Ambuscade'' launched in 1913]].
 
There was an earlier [[H.M.S. Ambuscade (1913)|''Ambuscade'' launched in 1913]].
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Revision as of 20:39, 6 April 2018

H.M.S. Ambuscade (1926)
Pendant Number: D38
Builder: Yarrow & Company
Laid down: 8 Dec, 1924
Launched: 15 Jan, 1926[1]
Completed: 1926[2]
Commissioned: 19 Apr, 1927[3]
Sold: Nov, 1946

H.M.S. Ambuscade was a Yarrow & Company-built prototype destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid 1920s. She and John I. Thornycroft & Company's Amazon helped determine the design factors that would inform more significant post-war construction, culminating in the "A" and "B" Class Destroyers of 1929-30.

There was an earlier Ambuscade launched in 1913.

Construction and Service

Ambuscade was commissioned at The Nore on 19 April, 1927 under Commander Ambrose Thomas Norman Abbay.[4]

She re-commissioned at Chatham on 16 October 1928 for service with the Third Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[5]

Ambuscade commissioned at Chatham on 22 June, 1932 under the command of William Gronow Davis.[6]

She was re-commissioned on 31 August, 1933.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 37.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 37.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 215.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 215.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 215.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 215.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 214.
  8. ↑ Abbay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/338. f. ?.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 215.
  10. ↑ Abbay Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/338. f. ?.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 215.
  12. ↑ Took command upon transfer to Fourth Destroyer Flotilla
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 215.

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