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HMS Amazon (D 39)

Destroyer of the Prototype class


HMS Amazon on trials

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassPrototype 
PennantD 39 
Built byThornycroft (Southampton, U.K.) 
Ordered12 Jun, 1924 
Laid down29 Jan, 1925 
Launched27 Jan, 1926 
Commissioned5 May, 1927 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryOn first trails HMS Amazon reached only 34.5 knots. After modifications she achieved 38.7 knots six months later.

Scrapped at Troon, Scotland starting on 6 October 1948.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Nigel Edward Godfrey Roper, RN
1 May 1939 – April 1942

Lt.Cdr. Lord Tynham, RN
April 1942 – 30 March 1943

Lt.Cdr. Denis Harold Palmer Gardiner, DSC, RN
30 March 1943 – 1 September 1943

Lt.Cdr. George Blackler, RN
1 September 1943 - 3 January 1944

HMS Amazon was in Dockyard Control during refit

A/Lt.Cdr. H.P. Byrne, RN
10 July 1944 - February 1945

T/A/Lt.Cdr. C.L. Beale, RNVR
February 1945 – 5 April 1945

T/Lt. Jack Ruan Crothers, RNVR
5 April 1945 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Amazon is not listed as active unit in the October 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Amazon include:

15 Sep, 1940
The Canadian merchant Kenordoc is shelled and damaged about 44 nautical miles west-north-west of Rockall in position 57º42'N, 15º02'W by the German submarine U-99. HMS Amazon (Lt.Cdr. N.E.G. Roper, RN) later scuttles the damaged Kenordoc.


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