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HMS Beagle (H 30)

Destroyer of the B class


HMS Beagle before World War Two

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassB 
PennantH 30 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down11 Oct, 1929 
Launched26 Sep, 1930 
Commissioned9 Apr, 1931 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold to be broken up for scrap on 15 January 1946.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Royston Hollis Wright, RN
27 April 1939 – February 1941
DSC awarded on 31 December 1940

Lt.Cdr. Richard Taylor White, DSO and Bar, RN
February 1941 - 16 February 1942
Promoted to Cdr. on 30 June 1941

Cdr. Ralph Cyril Medley, RN
16 February 1942 – 2 March 1943
DSO awarded on 28 July 1942

Lt.Cdr. Arthur Nicholl Rowell, RN
2 March 1943 – April 1943

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Lt.Cdr. Norman Robins Murch, RN
4 May 1943 – October 1944

Lt.Cdr. C.D.T. Williams, RN
October 1944 – May 1945

HMS Beagle is not listed as active unit in the July 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Beagle include:

6 Feb, 1940
HMS Boadicea (Lt.Cdr. G.B. Kingdon, RN) and HMS Beagle (Lt.Cdr. R.H. Wright, RN) sail from Boulogne with the Prime Minister, War cabinet and Chief of Staff for Dover.

22 Jul, 1940
HMS Beagle (Lt.Cdr. R.H. Wright, RN) destroyed a German Junkers JU-87 by pom-pom fire.

13 Sep, 1940
During the night of 13/14 September 1940 the destroyers HMS Highlander (Cdr. W.A. Dallmeyer, RN), HMS Harvester (Lt.Cdr. M. Thornton, RN), HMS Bulldog (Lt.Cdr. F.J.G. Hewitt, RN) and HMS Beagle (Lt.Cdr. R.H. Wright, RN) bombard Cherbourg in a sweep through the Seine Bay.

3 Nov, 1940
The German submarine U-99 torpedoes and sinks the British merchant Casanare about 240 nautical miles west-southwest of Bloody Foreland in position 53º58'N, 14º13'W. HMS Beagle (Lt.Cdr. R.H. Wright, RN) later picks up 54 survivors.

5 Nov, 1940
HMS Beagle (Lt.Cdr. R.H. Wright, RN) picks up 28 survivors from the British tanker Scottish Maiden that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-99 about 225 nautical miles west by south of Bloody Foreland in position 54º36'N, 14º23'W.

9 May, 1945
HMS Beagle headed the liberation of Jersey.


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