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HMS Douglas (D 90)

Destroyer of the Admiralty Leader class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAdmiralty Leader 
PennantD 90 
Built byCammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) 
OrderedDec, 1916 
Laid down30 Jun, 1917 
Launched8 Jun, 1918 
Commissioned30 Aug, 1918 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold to be broken up for scrap on 20 March 1945.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr Roland Frith Balfour Swinley, RN
??? - 19 April 1940

Cdr. J.G. Crossley, RN (retired)
19 April 1940 – 20 November 1940

Lt.Cdr. Harold Godfrey Bowerman, RN
20 November 1940 – February 1941

Cdr. William Eric Banks, DSC, RN
February 1941 – 20 April 1942

Lt.Cdr. R.B.S. Tennant, RN
20 April 1942 – 21 December 1942

Lt.Cdr. Karl Henry John Lynch Phipps, RN
21 December 1942 – 15 July 1944

A/Cdr. J.N. Knight, RN
15 July 1944 >

HMS Douglas is not listed in the January 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Douglas include:

28 Apr, 1941
The German submarine U-65 was sunk in the North Atlantic south-east of Iceland in position 59º51'N, 15º30'W, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Douglas (Cdr. W.E. Banks, RN).

HMS Douglas also picks up 18 men from the British tanker Capulet that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-552 south of Iceland in position 60º16'N, 16º10'W.
HMS Douglas then tried to sink the tanker with gunfire but failed to do so.
The abandoned wreck was finally sunk on 2 May 1941 by the German submarine U-201 south of Iceland in position 60º00'N, 16º00'W. (see map)

13 Nov, 1942
The British merchant Louise Moller is torpedoed and sunk about 240 miles east by south of Durban, South-Africa in position 30º50'S, 35º54'E by the German submarine U-178. HMS Douglas (Lt.Cdr. R.B.S. Tennant, RN) later picks up 29 survivors.

31 Oct, 1943
The German submarine U-732 was sunk in the mid-Atlantic near Tangier, in position 35º54'N, 05º52'W, by depth charges from the British anti-submarine trawler HMS Imperialist and the British destroyer HMS Douglas. (see map)



Books dealing with this subject include:

Destroyer, Brookes, Ewart, 1973


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