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HMS Sardonyx (H 26)

Destroyer of the Admiralty S class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty S 
PennantH 26 
Built byA. Stephen & Sons Ltd. (Glasgow, Scotland) 
OrderedJun, 1917 
Laid down25 Mar, 1918 
Launched27 May, 1919 
Commissioned12 Jul, 1919 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryScrapped in June 1945.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. William Alan Frank Hawkins, RN
17 January 1939 - ???

HMS Sardonyx was in Dockyard Control during refit

Lt.Cdr. Robert Basil Stewart Tennant, RN
9 May 1940 – 14 April 1942

Lt.Cdr. Alfred Francis Colenso Gray, RNR
14 April 1942 - July 1943
RD awarded on 20 November 1942

T/A/Lt.Cdr. Edward Playne, RNVR
July 1943 – February 1944

A/Lt.Cdr. Thomas Aitken Easton, RNVR
February 1944 – November 1944

Lt.Cdr. L.F.L. Hill, RNR
November 1944 – 19 June 1945

T/A/Lt.Cdr. E.R. Patt, DSC, RNR
19 June 1945 > HMS Sardonyx is not listed in the October 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Sardonyx include:

28 Sep, 1942
HMS Sardonyx (Lt.Cdr. A.F.C. Gray, RNR) picks up 42 survivors from the American merchant Yorktown that was torpedoed and sunk on 26 September 1942 by the German submarine U-619 about 550 nautical miles west of Butt of Lewis in position 55º10'N, 18º50'W.


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