Allied Warships

HMCS Cresent (R 16)

Destroyer of the Cr class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassCr 
PennantR 16 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Ordered12 Sep 1942 
Laid down16 Sep 1943 
Launched20 Jul 1944 
Commissioned10 Sep 1945 
End service 
History

Scrapped in 1971  

Commands listed for HMCS Cresent (R 16)

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1A/Lt.Cdr. Charles Patrick Nixon, DSC, RCN10 Sep 194517 Dec 1946

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Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.


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