HMS Crescent
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HMS Crescent was a C-class destroyer which was built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship was initially assigned to the Home Fleet, although she was temporarily deployed in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean during the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935–36. Crescent was sold to the Royal Canadian Navy in late 1936 and renamed HMCS Fraser. She was stationed on the west coast of Canada until the beginning of World War II when she was transferred to the Atlantic coast for convoy escort duties. The ship was transferred to the United Kingdom (UK) in May 1940 and helped to evacuate refugees from France upon her arrival in early June. Fraser was sunk on 25 June 1940 in a collision with the anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Calcutta while returning from one such mission.
1931
Wikidata
H48; HMCS Fraser
beam 10.1 metre, length 100.3 metre, draft 3.76 metre, draft 3.7 metre, speed 36 knot,
Vickers-Armstrongs, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, 
Location: 45.75, -1.5, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| event | armed conflict | Royan pocket | Atlantic pockets | Wikidata | |
| link | page | Dreadnought Project page@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | uboat.net page@ | Wikidata | ||
| site | artillery battery | Batterie Rest Adler Cosel | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | fort | Fort Louvois | sea fort, fort, tidal island | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | 1931 | HMS Crescent | C-class destroyer, Canadian River-class destroyer, C and D-class destroyer, shipwreck, destroyer | Wikidata |