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HMS Acheron - World Naval Ships Directory

HMS Acheron
Name : HMS Acheron Laid Down : 29th October 1928 Launched : 18th March 1930 Completed : 13th October 1921 Type : Destroyer Class : A Builder : Thornycroft Country : UK Pennants : H45 Fate : Sunk 17th December 1940.

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HMS Acheron, July 1935.

HMS Acheron, January 1938.

Known Crew Details :
Name	Start of Service	End of Service	Known Date
Joseph Allenby		17th December 1940
Guy James Andrews		17th December 1940
Richard Archer		17th December 1940
Denis Baird		17th December 1940
R J Barclay		17th December 1940
Clarence Bardsley		17th December 1940
Montague Valentine Bennett		17th December 1940
Stanley Berry		17th December 1940
William Leonard Birks		17th December 1940
Desmond Bishop		17th December 1940
James Alfred Blake		17th December 1940
Leonard Ernest William Blake		17th December 1940
Alfred Edward Blowers		17th December 1940
William Bourne		17th December 1940
Frank Brewin		17th December 1940
Harry Frederick Brook		17th December 1940
Harry Oswald Brooks		17th December 1940
Tennyson George Brown		17th December 1940
D Buckler		17th December 1940
Arthur Bunyar		17th December 1940
Bertram Sydney Bush		17th December 1940
Liionel Victor Carroll		17th December 1940
Samuel Daniel Frank Chillingworth		17th December 1940
Stephen Wilfred Chrismas		17th December 1940
William Clayson		17th December 1940
Graham Francis Cleveland		17th December 1940
James Edward Halsey Coleridge		17th December 1940
Albert Frederick Collins		17th December 1940
Frederick Albert Collins		17th December 1940
William James Compton		17th December 1940
G H Cornelius		17th December 1940
Morris Arthur Couling		17th December 1940
Ronald Allenby Crunden		17th December 1940
Howard Cutts		17th December 1940
Reuben Danby		17th December 1940
Arthur William St Clair Dillet		17th December 1940
James Dixon		17th December 1940
Joseph Dobson		17th December 1940
Frederick James Thomas Doust		17th December 1940
Charles Gentry Evans		17th December 1940
Joseph Oliver Ewers		17th December 1940
James Fagen		17th December 1940
Charles Percy Farrant		17th December 1940
Reginald Charles Findlay		17th December 1940
John Flack		17th December 1940
William John Forse		17th December 1940
George Albert Fox		17th December 1940
Robert William French		17th December 1940
Thomas John Gibbs		17th December 1940
John Victor Crusoe Goldsmith		17th December 1940
Samuel Joseph Gosse		17th December 1940
Cyril Fred Greenland		17th December 1940
Philip John Hammond		17th December 1940
John Henry Hannabuss		17th December 1940
T Hannah		17th December 1940
George Bertie Harmer		17th December 1940
Robert Harper		17th December 1940
William Henry John Hassel		17th December 1940
James Edward Hawkins		17th December 1940
Clifford James Haywood		17th December 1940
H Headlong		17th December 1940
Robert Heaney		17th December 1940
L Hesketh		17th December 1940
James Herbert Hibbard		17th December 1940
John Henry Hickman		17th December 1940
Thomas Vincent Holbrow		17th December 1940
Joseph Reginald Holland		17th December 1940
Hubert Horace Hollands		17th December 1940
Harry Howell		17th December 1940
R Hurman		17th December 1940
Philip James Hutt		17th December 1940
Arthur Alfred Samuel Hyatt		17th December 1940
C Ireland		17th December 1940
Samuel Peake Jackson		17th December 1940
Thomas Derek Jacobs		17th December 1940
Harry Jays		17th December 1940
Frederick Jones		17th December 1940
Ernest Frank Knott		17th December 1940
William Lawrence Henry Laud		17th December 1940
Ronald Lugg		17th December 1940
Arthur Lunt		17th December 1940
Archibald Maginnes		17th December 1940
William Henry Massingham		17th December 1940
Alexander Mather		17th December 1940
Allan James Mather		17th December 1940
Charles George Matthews		17th December 1940
Reginald William Matthews		17th December 1940
Michael McCluskey		17th December 1940
William McClymont		17th December 1940
Francis McEwan		17th December 1940
Kenneth McKinnon		17th December 1940
William John Metcalf		17th December 1940
Frederick Milligan		17th December 1940
George Milsom		17th December 1940
Samuel Robert Mitchell		17th December 1940
George Benjamin Arthur Moll		17th December 1940
Arthur George Charles Moore		17th December 1940
Douglas Moulson		17th December 1940
Leslie Newton		17th December 1940
William John George Nicklen		17th December 1940
Joseph Nicol		17th December 1940
Ernest Albert Nimmo		17th December 1940
John Alfred Parker		17th December 1940
Francis Parnwell		17th December 1940
C W Parsons		17th December 1940
Christopher Harry Perkins		17th December 1940
Stanley Perkins		17th December 1940
Stanley George Pitcher		17th December 1940
John Cornelius Pitt		17th December 1940
Norman Edward Post		17th December 1940
Harold Leslie Pratt		17th December 1940
Ernest James Preston		17th December 1940
Charles Leon Pretre		17th December 1940
Ernest Edward Price		17th December 1940
Silvester Joseph Putnam		17th December 1940
Desmond Charles Putt		17th December 1940
William Alexander Quin		17th December 1940
Ronald Charles Ranger		17th December 1940
Edward Mark Rayner		17th December 1940
F H Reeve		17th December 1940
Bernard Geoffrey Rhodes		17th December 1940
R Riches		17th December 1940
George Alexander Ritchie		17th December 1940
Albert Charles Robinson		17th December 1940
Joseph George Rodd		17th December 1940
Harry John Rowe		17th December 1940
Horace Rowe		17th December 1940
George Shaw		17th December 1940
Alfred Jack Sheppard		17th December 1940
Joseph Simms		17th December 1940
Leslie John Sinnett		17th December 1940
D E Sleeman		17th December 1940
Albert Smith		17th December 1940
Frederick Anthony Smith		17th December 1940
James Edmund Smith		17th December 1940
Thomas Henry Smith		17th December 1940
F Somers		17th December 1940
Thomas Harold Palmer Spratt		17th December 1940
Henry George Staker		17th December 1940
Edward Arnold Stevens		17th December 1940
Sidney Thomas Stingmore		17th December 1940
Summers Thomas Thain		17th December 1940
George Alfred Tilley		17th December 1940
Eugene Mauger Tisson		17th December 1940
John Topham		17th December 1940
Wilfred Towle		17th December 1940
George Tricker		17th December 1940
J P Turnbull		17th December 1940
Leslie Irwin Charles Tutt		17th December 1940
Harry Vardy		17th December 1940
K C Villiers		17th December 1940
Robert Samuel Walker		17th December 1940
Alexander James Frederick Watson		17th December 1940
Maurice Kelvin Westwell		17th December 1940
Richard Norman Whadcock		17th December 1940
Walter Ernest Whiting		17th December 1940
Kenneth Whitney		17th December 1940
Tom Whitworth		17th December 1940
Lawrence Vaughan Wickens		17th December 1940
George Henry Wilkins		17th December 1940
Arthur Ernest Matthew Wilkinson		17th December 1940
George Albert Williams		17th December 1940
Lawrence Williamson		17th December 1940
R E Willis		17th December 1940
John Rees Wilson		17th December 1940
R N O Wilson		17th December 1940
Albert Henry Woplin		17th December 1940
Thomas Claude Wormworth		17th December 1940
Alfred Worthington		17th December 1940

Timeline Entries :
29th May 1928 - Ordered from John I Thornycroft at Woolston 29th October 1928 - Laid down 18th March 1930 - Launched 18th March 1930 - Pennant Number H45 1st May 1930 - 3rd Destroyer Flotilla 31st October 1931 - Commissioned 29th January 1932 - Arrived Malta 22nd April 1932 - Arrived Malta 22nd April 1932 - Lt. Cmdr. P. V. James in Command 1st October 1932 - Lt. Cmdr. P. V. James in Command 1st October 1932 - 3rd Destroyer Flotilla. Mediterranean Fleet 14th January 1933 - Arrived Port Drepano 25th 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 31st August 1933 - Sailed Malta 2nd September 1933 - Arrived Skiathos 11th September 1933 - Sailed Skiathos 11th September 1933 - Arrived Stylis 18th September 1933 - Sailed Stylis 19th September 1933 - Arrived Port Sigri 25th September 1933 - Sailed Port Sigri 27th September 1933 - Arrived Haifa 3rd October 1933 - Sailed Haifa 4th October 1933 - Arrived Alexandria 11th October 1933 - Sailed Alexandria 13th October 1933 - Arrived Navarin 21st October 1933 - Sailed Navarin 23rd October 1933 - Arrived Malta 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 24th April 1934 - Sailed St. Raphael for Malta 15th August 1934 - Arrived Malta 29th August 1934 - Sailed Malta 1st September 1934 - Arrived Brioni 10th September 1934 - Sailed Brioni 10th September 1934 - Arrived Crkvenica 19th September 1934 - Sailed Crkvenica 19th September 1934 - Arrived Olib 21st September 1934 - Arrived Olib 25th September 1934 - Sailed Olib 25th September 1934 - Arrived Rogoznica 1st October 1934 - Sailed Rogoznica 2nd October 1934 - Arrived Gulf of Drin 8th October 1934 - Arrived Malaluka Bay 8th October 1934 - Sailed Gulf of Drin 15th October 1934 - Sailed Malaluka Bay 15th October 1934 - Arrived Kotor (Tivat) 22nd October 1934 - Sailed Kotor (Tivat) 25th October 1934 - Arrived Malta 22nd April 1935 - 3rd Destroyer Flotilla 16th July 1935 - Attended 1935 Spithead Fleet Review 16th August 1935 - Arrived Portsmouth 30th May 1936 - Arrived Alexandria 10th June 1936 - Sailed Alexandria for Malta 17th June 1936 - Arrived Portsmouth 24th March 1937 - Arrived Portsmouth 12th April 1937 - Sailed Portsmouth for Portland 14th April 1937 - Arrived Portsmouth 16th July 1937 - Arrived Portsmouth 25th October 1937 - Sailed Portsmouth for Portland 7th March 1938 - Arrived Portland 10th March 1938 - Arrived Portsmouth 10th March 1938 - Sailed Portland for Portsmouth January 1939 - Lt.Cdr. Ralph William Frank Northcott in Command January 1939 - Lt.Cdr. Ralph William Frank Northcott, RN in Command 1st January 1939 - 18th Destroyer Flotilla 1st January 1939 - 18th Destroyer Flotilla 17th January 1939 - Arrived Portland 19th January 1939 - Sailed Portland for Portsmouth 19th January 1939 - Arrived Portsmouth 19th January 1939 - Arrived Portsmouth 6th March 1939 - Arrived Portland 24th April 1939 - Sailed Portsmouth for Portland 24th April 1939 - Arrived Portland 27th April 1939 - Arrived Portsmouth 5th August 1939 - Arrived Portland 8th August 1939 - Arrived Weymouth Bay 9th August 1939 - Attended Review of the British Reserve Fleet 2nd September 1939 - At Portsmouth Repairing 2nd September 1939 - Arrived Portland 3rd September 1939 - Arrived Portland 7th September 1939 - 18th Flotilla transferred to Western Approaches Command 7th September 1939 - 18th Flotilla transferred to Western Approaches Command 19th September 1939 - Joined Convoy MB005/1 21st September 1939 - Left Convoy MB005/1 23rd September 1939 - Joined Convoy MB007/1 25th September 1939 - Left Convoy MB007/1 29th September 1939 - Joined Convoy MB009/1 30th September 1939 - Left Convoy MB009/1 1st October 1939 - Joined Convoy MB010/1 2nd October 1939 - Left Convoy MB010/1 12th October 1939 - Submarine hunting off Newhaven 30th November 1939 - At Portsmouth repairing 11th December 1939 - Searched for a U-boat in the Channel near Portsmouth 11th December 1939 - Starboard engine failed and put her out of action 31st December 1939 - At Portsmouth repairing 31st January 1940 - At Portsmouth under repair 29th February 1940 - Under repair at Portsmouth 6th April 1940 - Joined Convoy SA036 8th April 1940 - Left Convoy SA036 December 1940 - Lt. John Rees Wilson, RN in Command 17th December 1940 - Sunk

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