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HMS Cockade |
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HMS Cockade Laid Down : 11th March 1943 Launched : 1st March 1944 Completed : 29th September 1945 Type : Destroyer Class : C Builder : Yarrow Country : UK Pennants : R34, D60 BPF, D34 Fate : Scrapped July 1964. |
| ockade commissioned too late to see service in the Second World War. After the war she was allocated the pennant number D34. Her first Commanding Officer was Lt Cdr Terence Desmond Herrick, DSC RN. She served in the post-war Royal Navy, initially sailing to the Far East, exercising off Hong Kong in 1946. She subsequently saw service in the Korean War, acting as escorts for the Royal Navy aircraft carriers and providing shore bombardment capability. Whilst there she also visited Singapore and Japan. She also took part in the Malayan Emergency as part of the 8th Destroyer Squadron. In 1957 she was serving again at Hong Kong. Cockade returned to Plymouth from the Far East in 1958 and decommissioned for the last time. The destroyer was laid up at Devonport in reserve pending disposal. Following her decommissioning Cockade was sold in September 1964 to John Cashmore Ltd for breaking up at Newport, Wales. |
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 HMS Turpin, with HMS Bicester and HMS Cockade Falmouth, 9th July 1948. | |
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7th March 1944 - Pennant R34 7th March 1944 - Launched 1945 - Pennant D60 British Pacific Fleet 27th February 1945 - Lt.Cdr. Terence Desmond Herrick, DSC, RN In Command 22nd May 1946 - Exercising off Hong Kong 23rd June 1947 - Sailed Singapore 26th December 1947 - Arrived Plymouth from the Far East 13th November 1957 - Hong Kong Waters September 1964 - Scrapped at Newport | |||
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