| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | A |
| Pennant | H 42 |
| Built by | Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness,U.K.) |
| Ordered | 6 Mar 1928 |
| Laid down | 20 Aug 1928 |
| Launched | 22 Aug 1929 |
| Commissioned | 14 Apr 1930 |
| End service | |
| History | HMS Arrow (Lt.Cdr. William Wentworth Fitzroy, RN) was heavily damaged in an accident in Algiers harbour on 4 August 1943. She was alongside the ammunition ship Fort la Monte when that vessel blew up. Arrow was beyond economical repair and was declared a constructive total loss. Later she was towed to Taranto, Italy where she was scrapped. |
Commands listed for HMS Arrow (H 42)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Cdr. Herbert Wyndham Williams, RN | Aug 1939 | 8 Jan 1941 |
| 2 | Cdr. Addison Joe Baker-Cresswell, RN | 8 Jan 1941 | Feb 1941 |
| 3 | Cdr. Richard Edmund Hyde-Smith, RN | Feb 1941 | 24 Sep 1941 |
| 4 | Cdr. Alec Murray McKillop, RN | 24 Sep 1941 | 16 Mar 1943 |
| 5 | Lt.Cdr. William Wentworth Fitzroy, RN | 16 Mar 1943 | early 1944 |
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