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HMS Active Laid Down : 10th July 1927 Launched : 9th July 1929 Completed : 30th April 1930 Type : Destroyer Class : A Builder : Hawthorn Leslie Country : UK Pennants : H14 Fate : Scrapped 20th May 1947. |
| HMS ACTIVE, an 'A' class destroyer, was launched 9th July 1929 by Hawthorn Leslie on the River Tyne. She entered service in the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla on 10th April 1930, operating in the Mediterranean until the Second World War. During this time she collided twice with other destroyers, HMS ACHATES in April 1932 and HMS WORCESTER in February 1937. After the outbreak of war she remained in the Mediterranean until August 1940 when she joined the Home Fleet, before participating in the action against the German battleship BISMARCK in May 1941. She then operated in the Mediterranean, United Kingdom waters, Atlantic and Indian Ocean until the end of the war. |
During the war she took part in sinking four enemy submarines - the Vichy French MONGE (May 1942), the German U179 (October 1942), the Italian LEONARDO DA VINCI (May 1943) and the German U340 (November 1943). She went to the Reserve Fleet in December 1945 and arrived at Troon, in Ayrshire, for scrapping in July 1947. |
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  HMS Active |   HMS Active, 1930. |   HMS Active, July 1935. |
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10th July 1928 - Laid down at Hawthorn Leslie At Hebburn 9th July 1929 - Pennant Number H14 9th July 1929 - Launched 9th February 1930 - Commissioned as part of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla 1st May 1930 - 3rd Destroyer Flotilla 1st May 1930 - 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet 29th January 1932 - Arrived Malta 22nd April 1932 - Capt. G. C. Muirhead-Gould, DSC. In Command 1st October 1932 - 3rd Destroyer Flotilla. Mediterranean Fleet 1st October 1932 - Capt. G. C. Muirhead-Gould, DSC. In Command 14th January 1933 - Arrived Port Drepano 14th January 1933 - Sailed Port Drepano 25th January 1933 - Arrived Gulf of Patras 1st February 1933 - Arrived Malta 7th March 1933 - Sailed Malta for Pollensa Bay 10th March 1933 - Arrived Palma 28th March 1933 - Sailed Pollensa for Bormes Roads 30th March 1933 - Arrived Bormes Roads 12th April 1933 - Arrived Antibes 24th April 1933 - Sailed Antibes 27th April 1933 - Arrived Malta 27th April 1933 - Arrived Malta 19th July 1933 - Arrived Susak 5th August 1933 - Arrived Kotor 10th January 1934 - Sailed Malta for short winter cruise 25th January 1934 - Arrived Malta 3rd March 1934 - Sailed Malta for Gibraltar 23rd March 1934 - Sailed Gibraltar 27th March 1934 - Arrived Leghorn 23rd April 1934 - Arrived St. Raphael 24th April 1934 - Sailed St. Raphael for Malta 15th August 1934 - Arrived Malta 1st September 1934 - Arrived Trieste 10th September 1934 - Arrived Brieni 27th October 1934 - Arrived Rosyth 15th January 1935 - Arrived Gibraltar 18th January 1935 - Arrived Arosa Bay 22nd April 1935 - 3rd Destroyer Flotilla 22nd April 1935 - Sailed Gibraltar for Home Ports 26th April 1935 - Arrived Portsmouth 18th June 1936 - Arrived Jaffa 19th June 1936 - Arrived Haifa 9th September 1936 - Arrived Marseilles 9th September 1936 - Sailed Marseilles 12th September 1936 - Arrived Barcelona 27th September 1936 - Sailed Cartegena 27th September 1936 - Sailed Cartagena 11th October 1936 - Arrived Gibraltar June 1937 - Lt. Cdr. Bryan Gouthwaite Scurfield Assumed Command 23rd October 1937 - Arrived Port Said 25th October 1937 - Sailed Port Said January 1938 - 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet 1st April 1938 - Arrived Gibraltar 19th April 1938 - Arrived Gibraltar 22nd July 1938 - Cdr. Bryan Gouthwaite Scurfield Relinquished Command 30th July 1938 - Arrived Malta 1st January 1939 - 18th Destroyer Flotilla 1st May 1939 - Cdr. Errol Concanon Lloyd Turner in Command 25th August 1939 - At Gibraltar 25th August 1939 - Formed 13th Destroyer Flotilla operating from Gibraltar September 1939 - Joined the 13th Flotilla based in Gibraltar 2nd September 1939 - 13th Destroyer Flotilla, Division 26,North Atlantic Command, Gibraltar 30th November 1939 - At Gibraltar repairing 9th December 1939 - Sailed Gibraltar escorting Convoy HG.10. Detached later that day 29th December 1939 - Sailed Gibraltar escorting Convoy HGF.13 1st January 1940 - Home Fleet 3rd January 1940 - Detached from Convoy HGF.13 21st January 1940 - Sailed Gibraltar escorting Convoy HC.16F 28th January 1940 - Detached from Convoy HC.16F 9th February 1940 - Sailed Gibraltar escorting Convoy HG.18 10th February 1940 - Detached from Convoy HG.18 11th February 1940 - Patrol for Cadiz and Huelva to watch German merchant ships there AM 17th February 1940 - Joined Convoy OG.18F until arrival at Gibraltar later same day 23rd February 1940 - Arrived Gibraltar with steamer Maclaren 4th March 1940 - Sailed Gibraltar escorting Convoy HG.21 6th March 1940 - Joined HG.20 6th March 1940 - Detached from Convoy HG.21 7th March 1940 - Arrived Gibraltar with Convoy HG.20 9th March 1940 - Sailed Gibraltar escorting Convoy HG.22F 13th March 1940 - Sailed Gibraltar 16th March 1940 - Arrived Gibraltar 24th March 1940 - Sailed Gibraltar 25th March 1940 - Joined and escorted HMS Ark Royal 25th March 1940 - Detached from escorting HMS Ark Royal February 1941 - Lt.Cdr. Michael Wilfred Tomkinson in Command 8th May 1942 - Sank the Vichy French submarine Monge 6th June 1942 - Joined Convoy WS17A as Ocean Escort during passage to Durban 8th October 1942 - Sank Submarine U-179 1st January 1943 - Lt.Cdr. Peter Gordon Merriman in Command 23rd May 1943 - Sank the Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci west of Cape Finisterre 2nd November 1943 - Sunk U-340 near Tangier, in position 35.33N, 06.37W 9th October 1944 - Cdr. John Pringle in Command November 1944 - Lt. John Aylmer McClure, DSC in Command 1st January 1945 - Mediterranean Fleet May 1947 - Decommissioned and sold for scrap. | |||
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