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HMS Ambuscade (D 38)

Destroyer of the Prototype class


HMS Ambuscade before the war

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassPrototype 
PennantD 38 
Built byYarrow Shipbuilders Ltd. (Scotstoun, Scotland) 
Ordered12 Jun, 1924 
Laid down8 Dec, 1924 
Launched15 Jan, 1926 
Commissioned15 Mar, 1927 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryHMS Ambuscade made 37.66 knots on trials and was more economical than the other prototype HMS Amazon.

Sold to be broken up for scrap on 23 November 1946.

Commanding Officers:
HMS Ambuscade was in Dockyard Control during refit at the beginning of the 2nd World War.

Lt.Cdr. Arthur Oswald Johnson, RN
21 March 1940 – 14 June 1940

Lt.Cdr. Robert Augustus Fell, RN
14 June 1940 – 16 May 1942

Lt.Cdr. R.C. Peaks, RN
16 May 1942 - 9 November 1942

Lt.Cdr. Donald Emberton Mansfield, RN
9 November 1942 – 13 July 1943

Lt. Harry Hutchinson, RN
13 July 1943 – 10 June 1944

Lt.Cdr. John Mayling, RN
10 June 1944 – February 1944

A/Lt.Cdr. Harold Geeves Chesterman, DSO and Bar, RNR
February 1945 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Ambuscade is not listed as active unit in the October 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Ambuscade include:

7 Dec, 1940
The Dutch merchant Farmsum is torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic in position 52º11'N, 22º56'W. HMS Ambuscade (Lt.Cdr. R.A. Fell, RN) later picks up 15 survivors.


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