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HMS Coventry |
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HMS Coventry Laid Down : 4th August 1916 Launched : 6th July 1917 Completed : 21st February 1918 Type : Cruiser Class : Ceres Builder : Swan Hunter Country : UK Sequence : This is the 4th ship with this name. Pennants : D43 Fate : Sunk 14th September 1942 |
| Converted to anti aircraft role 1937. HMS Coventry built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend was initially going to be called HMS Corsair. HMS Coventry was laid down on the 4th August 1916, launched 6th July 1917 and completed for naval service in February 1918. HMS Coventry joined the 5th Light Cruiser squadron in February 1918 till May 1919, and served in the Baltic in this time. Commissioned in May 1919 into the Atlantic fleet, until in 1920 when HMS Coventry became the HQ ship for naval Inter allied Disarmament Commission. Went into refit in late 1920 and once completed joined the 2nd Light cruiser squadron as flagship to the Rear Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet. A torpedo explosion while in Malta in March 1923 caused the death of two crew. At the outbreak of world war two HMS Coventry was serving with the Home Fleet between 1939 and 1940, moving to the Mediterranean fleet in 1940 until being sunk off Tobruk on the 14th September 1942 by German and Italian aircraft. |
HMS Coventry Photos for Sale |
  HMS Coventry, 1925. |   HMS Coventry, July 1935. |   HMS Coventry, July 1935. |   HMS Coventry, July 1935. |   HMS Coventry, 1937. |
  HMS Coventry |   The deck of HMS Coventry with unusual cargo |   HMS Coventry. |
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4th August 1916 - Laid down at Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne 6th July 1917 - Pennant D43 6th July 1917 - Launched February 1918 - Harwich Force 21st February 1918 - 5th Light Cruiser Squadron 21st February 1918 - Commissioned 6th December 1918 - Arrived Copenhagen 1st June 1919 - 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleet 28th June 1919 - Sailed Harwich for the Baltic 12th August 1919 - Arrived Bremerhaven 14th August 1919 - Arrived Harwich 14th December 1919 - Sailed Chatham 30th March 1920 - Sailed Heligoland for Chatham 31st March 1920 - Arrived Sheerness 31st March 1920 - Arrived Sheerness 1st April 1920 - Arrived Chatham from Heligoland into Dockyard habds 7th June 1920 - Sailed Portsmouth for Greenock 16th June 1920 - Arrived Rosyth 25th June 1920 - Arrived Invergordon 7th July 1920 - Arrived Greenock 22nd February 1921 - Sailed Arosa Bay for Gibraltar 25th February 1921 - Flagship of Rear-Admiral M.H. Hodges 25th February 1921 - Arrived Gibraltar 12th March 1921 - At Gibraltar 12th March 1921 - Sailed Gibraltar for Tangier 12th March 1921 - Arrived Tangier 16th March 1921 - Sailed Tangiers for Vigo 17th March 1921 - Sailed Gibraltar for UK 17th March 1921 - Sailed Gibraltar 21st March 1921 - Arrived Portsmouth 22nd March 1921 - Arrived UK 29th October 1921 - Arrived Invergordon 29th October 1921 - Sailed Rosyth for Invergordon 1st December 1921 - Sailed Rosyth for Harwich 2nd December 1921 - Arrived Harwich 8th February 1923 - Sailed Portland to Joined the Atlantic Fleet in the Mediterranean 8th February 1923 - Flagship of Rear Admiral A.K. Waistell 19th February 1923 - Arrived Malaga 19th February 1923 - Sailed Gibraltar 24th February 1923 - Sailed Malaga 24th February 1923 - Arrived Almeria 28th February 1923 - Arrived Cartegena 28th February 1923 - Sailed Almeria 5th March 1923 - Sailed Cartegena 6th March 1923 - Arrived Gibraltar 21st March 1923 - Sailed Gibraltar 23rd March 1923 - Arrived Vigo 26th March 1923 - Sailed Vigo 26th March 1923 - Arrived Arosa Bay 31st March 1923 - Sailed Arosa Bay 3rd November 1923 - Fleet Review at Spithead 26th July 1924 - Fleet Review at Spithead 1st September 1924 - Flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Albert Percy Addison 9th September 1924 - Sailed UK for the Mediterranean 19th December 1931 - At Malta 7th January 1932 - Sailed Malta 29th January 1932 - Arrived Malta 4th April 1932 - Sailed Beaulieu for Golfe Juan 4th April 1932 - Arrived Golfe Juan 6th April 1932 - At Golfe Juan 14th April 1932 - Arrived Aranci Bay 14th April 1932 - Arrived Aranci Bay 21st April 1932 - Sailed Aranci Bay 22nd April 1932 - Arrived Malta 22nd April 1932 - Arrived Malta 1st October 1932 - Capt. H. E. Horan, DSC in Command 1st October 1932 - Flag Officer Destroyers. Mediterranean Fleet. Rear Admiral F. F. Rose, CB, DSO 14th January 1933 - Arrived Port Drepano 14th 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 Golfe Juan 30th March 1933 - Arrived Golfe Juan 12th April 1933 - Arrived Gulf of St. Tropez 24th April 1933 - Sailed Gulf of St. Tropez 24th April 1933 - Sailed St. Tropez for Malta 27th April 1933 - Arrived Malta 27th April 1933 - Arrived Malta 27th July 1933 - Arrived Brioni 10th January 1934 - Sailed Malta for short winter cruise 10th January 1934 - Arrived Bizerta 25th January 1934 - Arrived Malta 3rd March 1934 - Sailed Malta for Gibraltar 23rd March 1934 - Sailed Gibraltar 27th March 1934 - Arrived Leghorn 9th April 1934 - Sailed Leghorn for St. Tropez 10th April 1934 - Arrived St. Trpoez 24th April 1934 - Sailed St. Tropez for Malta 27th June 1934 - Sailed Malta for Summer Cruise 27th June 1934 - Sailed Malta 27th June 1934 - Flagship of Rear-Admiral A.B. Cunningham 29th June 1934 - Arrived Platea 6th July 1934 - Arrived Ithaca 6th July 1934 - Sailed Platea 12th July 1934 - Sailed Ithaca 12th July 1934 - Arrived Argostoli 19th July 1934 - Sailed Argostoli 20th July 1934 - Arrived Corfu 29th July 1934 - Sailed Corfu 30th July 1934 - Arrived Suda Bay 5th August 1934 - Sailed Suda Bay 6th August 1934 - Arrived Navarin 13th August 1934 - Destroyer Flagship in the Mediterranean 13th August 1934 - Sailed Navarin 15th August 1934 - Arrived Malta 15th August 1934 - Arrived Malta 10th September 1934 - Sailed Bakar bay for Lussin Piccolo 24th September 1934 - Arrived Gruz 8th October 1934 - Arrived Rogoznica 15th January 1935 - Arrived Gibraltar 22nd April 1935 - Sailed Gibraltar for Home Ports 26th April 1935 - Arrived Portsmouth 11th June 1935 - Flagship of Rear-Admiral A.B. Cunningham 11th June 1935 - Sailed Malta for Gibraltar 16th July 1935 - Attended 1935 Spithead Fleet Review 27th January 1936 - Arrived Gibraltar 16th June 1936 - Sailed Malta for Alexandria 18th June 1936 - Arrived Alexandria 27th July 1936 - Sailed Malta for Gibraltar 10th October 1937 - Sailed Gibraltar for Portsmouth 7th April 1938 - Arrived Plymouth 10th April 1938 - Sailed Plymouth for trials 19th April 1938 - Sailed Plymouth 4th April 1939 - Sailed Portland for Portsmouth 25th August 1939 - Sailed Plymouth for Gibraltar 28th August 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 31st August 1939 - Sailed Malta 31st August 1939 - Arrived Malta 2nd September 1939 - At Alexandria 3rd September 1939 - Arrived Alexandria 7th October 1939 - Sailed Alexandria for Malta 9th October 1939 - Sailed Malta for Gibraltar 9th October 1939 - Arrived Malta 11th October 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar and left the same day 14th October 1939 - Sailed Portland arrived Portsmouth the same night 14th October 1939 - Arrive Portland 19th October 1939 - Sailed Portsmouth for the Humber 20th October 1939 - Arrived Immingham 21st October 1939 - Sailed Immingham to support a convoy under air attack 26th October 1939 - Arrived Immingham with a steering gear fault 14th November 1939 - Completed repairs at Immingham 14th November 1939 - Sailed Grimsby for Sullom Voe 15th November 1939 - Sailed Immingham for duty at Sullom Voe 22nd November 1939 - Fired at German aircraft in Sullom Voe 25th December 1939 - At Sullom Voe 1st January 1940 - Damaged in an air raid on the Shetland Islands 1st January 1940 - At Scapa Flow 15th January 1940 - Sailed Sullom Voe for the Humber and arrived later the same day 16th January 1940 - Arrived Chatham for docking and repairs 14th February 1940 - Sailed Sullom Voe for repairs at Chatham, 15th February 1940 - Arrived in the Humber 29th April 1940 - Repairs completed at Chatham and sailed for Sheerness to take on ammunition 16th September 1940 - Arrived off Crete 27th November 1940 - Battle Of Cape Spartivento, Sardinia 27th November 1940 - Force D 13th December 1940 - Torpedoed by Italian submarine Neghelli torpedoes but she carries on 14th September 1942 - Sunk | |||
HMS Coventry Artwork Collection |
  HMS Coventry by Ivan Berryman. |
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