Allied Warships

HMS Serapis (G 94)

Destroyer of the S class

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	S
Pennant	G 94
Built by	Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland)
Ordered	9 Jan 1941
Laid down	14 Aug 1941
Launched	25 Mar 1943
Commissioned	23 Dec 1943
End service
History	Transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy on 1 October 1945 being renamed Piet Hein. Scrapped at Gent, Belgium in June 1962. See also this website (offsite link).

Commands listed for HMS Serapis (G 94)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Eric Lister Jones, DSC, RN	11 Oct 1943	5 Feb 1944
2	Capt. Peter Grenville Lyon Cazalet, DSC, RN	5 Feb 1944	19 Mar 1944
3	Lt.Cdr. Eric Lister Jones, DSC, RN	19 Mar 1944	1 Oct 1945

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Notable events involving Serapis include:

17 Jan 1944
HMS Vox (Lt. J.M. Michell, RN) conducted A/S exercises at Scapa Flow with HMS Serapis (Lt.Cdr. E.L. Jones, DSC, RN), HMS Undine (Cdr. T.C. Robinson, RN), HMS Verulam (Lt.Cdr. W.S. Thomas, DSC, RN) and ORP Blyscawica (Cdr. K.F. Namiesniowski). (1)