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HMS Brilliant |
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HMS Brilliant Laid Down : Launched : 9th October 1930 Completed : Type : Destroyer Class : B Builder : Swan Hunter Country : UK Pennants : H84 Fate : Scrapped 1947. |
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| Displacement: 1,360 tons Speed: 35kts Complement: 138. Armament: Four 4.7 inch guns, two 2 pdr anti-aircraft guns and eight 21 inch torpedo tubes. |
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  HMS Brilliant |   HMS Brilliant, July 1935. |   HMS Brilliant, May 1937. |
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9th October 1930 - Launched 9th October 1930 - Pennant H84 1st September 1931 - Sailed Malta 1st September 1931 - 5th Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean 3rd September 1931 - Arrived Skiathos 11th September 1931 - Sailed Skiathos 11th September 1931 - Arrived Thasos 24th September 1931 - Arrived Mudros 24th September 1931 - Sailed Thasos 6th October 1931 - Arrived Milos 16th October 1931 - Sailed Milos 17th October 1931 - Arrived Suda Bay 26th October 1931 - Arrived Malta 7th January 1932 - Sailed Malta 29th January 1932 - Arrived Malta 30th March 1932 - Arrived Cagliari 4th April 1932 - Sailed Cagliari for Bona 5th April 1932 - Arrived Bona 14th April 1932 - Arrived Aranci Bay 22nd April 1932 - Arrived Malta 22nd April 1932 - Lt. Cmdr. H. W. Williams in Command 1st October 1932 - 4th Destroyer Flotilla. Mediterranean Fleet 1st October 1932 - Lt. Cmdr. H. W. Williams in Command 14th January 1933 - Arrived Suda Bay 25th January 1933 - Sailed Suda Bay 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 3rd April 1933 - Sailed Golfe Juan for Leghorn 3rd April 1933 - Arrived Leghorn 12th April 1933 - Arrived Ajaccio 13th April 1933 - Arrived Arrived Ajaccio 20th April 1933 - Sailed Ajaccio 22nd April 1933 - Arrived Malta 24th April 1933 - Sailed Ajaccio 27th April 1933 - Arrived Malta 29th July 1933 - Arrived Gruz 5th August 1933 - Arrived Kotor 26th October 1933 - Sailed Sheerness for Gibraltar and work up 4th December 1933 - Sailed Gibralta for Malta 7th December 1933 - Arrived Malta 9th January 1934 - Sailed Malta for cruise 10th January 1934 - Sailed Malta for short winter cruise 11th January 1934 - Arrived Bougie 25th January 1934 - Arrived Malta 3rd March 1934 - Sailed Malta for Gibraltar 23rd March 1934 - Sailed Gibraltar 27th March 1934 - Arrived Golfe Juan 10th April 1934 - Arrived Gulf of St. Tropez 24th April 1934 - Sailed St. Tropez for Malta 27th June 1934 - Sailed Malta 30th June 1934 - Arrived G. of Mirabella 5th July 1934 - Sailed G. of Mirabella 7th July 1934 - Arrived Haifa 13th July 1934 - Sailed Haifa 14th July 1934 - Arrived Alexandretta 23rd July 1934 - Sailed Alexandretti 24th July 1934 - Arrived Rhodes 29th July 1934 - Sailed Rhodes 30th July 1934 - Arrived Suda Bay 5th August 1934 - Sailed Suda Bay 6th August 1934 - Arrived Navarin 13th August 1934 - Sailed Navarin 15th August 1934 - Arrived Malta 15th August 1934 - Arrived Malta 29th August 1934 - Sailed Malta 31st August 1934 - Arrived Malaluka Bay 31st August 1934 - Arrived Malaluka Bay 7th September 1934 - Arrived Gruz 7th September 1934 - Sailed Malaluka Bay 17th September 1934 - Sailed Gruz 21st September 1934 - Arrived Brioni 22nd September 1934 - Arrived Brioni 30th September 1934 - Sailed Brioni 1st October 1934 - Arrived Split 7th October 1934 - Sailed Split 8th October 1934 - Arrived Rogoznica 8th October 1934 - Arrived Rogoznica 14th October 1934 - Sailed Rogoznica 15th October 1934 - Arrived Kotor 22nd October 1934 - Sailed Kotor 25th October 1934 - Arrived Malta 2nd December 1934 - Arrived Gibraltar 9th January 1935 - Sailed Gibraltar for Malta 22nd April 1935 - 4th Destroyer Flotilla 22nd April 1935 - Sailed Gibraltar for Malta 25th April 1935 - Arrived Malta 16th July 1935 - Attended 1935 Spithead Fleet Review 31st July 1935 - Arrived Malta 27th January 1936 - Arrived Alexandria 27th July 1936 - Arrived Gibraltar 23rd October 1936 - Arrived Rosyth 5th March 1937 - Arrived Gibraltar 30th March 1937 - Arrived and Sailed Bermeo 4th April 1937 - Arrived Corunna 19th April 1937 - Arrived and sailed La Rochelle for the UK 22nd May 1937 - Arrived Sheerness 14th June 1937 - Sailed Sheerness 30th June 1937 - Arrived Manchester 9th July 1937 - Arrived Torbay 14th July 1937 - Sailed Portsmouth for exercises 22nd July 1937 - Arrived Sheerness 22nd July 1937 - Sailed Portland for Sheerness 17th November 1937 - Arrived and Sailed Marseilles 11th March 1938 - Sailed Gibraltar on patrol 30th March 1938 - Arrived Sheerness 5th July 1938 - Commenced Combined exercises 10th July 1938 - Completed Combined exercises 22nd November 1938 - Arrived Portsmouth 16th January 1939 - Sailed Sheerness 22nd January 1939 - Arrived Portland 22nd January 1939 - Sailed Plymouth for Portsmouth 22nd January 1939 - Sailed Plymouth for Portland 14th March 1939 - Lt.Cdr. Francis Cumberland Brodrick, RN In Command 22nd April 1939 - Sailed Sheerness for Dover 23rd April 1939 - Arrived Sheerness 11th May 1939 - Emergency Destroyer at the Nore 7th July 1939 - Sailed Manchester 9th August 1939 - Attended Review of the British Reserve Fleet 31st August 1939 - Sailed Dover on patrol 2nd September 1939 - Arrived Dover 3rd September 1939 - 19th Destroyer Flotilla, Division 38, Nore Command 29th October 1939 - Assigned to the 19th Destroyer Flotilla at Harwich 19th November 1939 - Relieved Wivern on patrol 25th November 1939 - Patrolled in the North Sea for four U-Boats 10th December 1939 - Sailed Dover for Boulogne escorting HMS Corington with HM King George VI 4th February 1940 - Sailed Dover. Escort for HMS Basilisk 4th February 1940 - Sailed Dover for Boulogne. and returned to Dover that evening 4th March 1940 - Sailed Dover to assist tanker Charles T. Meyer 7th March 1940 - Commenced boiler clean alongside HMS Sandhurst 12th March 1940 - Completed Boiler cleaning alongside HMS Sandhurst 12th March 1940 - Completed boiler cleaning and degaussing alongside depot ship Sandhurst at Dover 15th March 1940 - Assisted damaged HMT Peridot 19th March 1940 - Covered the minesweepers of the 10th Mine Sweeping Flotilla in operations between North Goodwin Light Vessel and Fairy Bank Buoy. 20th March 1940 - Assisted mine damaged Dutch tanker Phobos, five miles east of north of North Goodwins Light Vessel 23rd March 1940 - Searched unsuccessfully for the pilot of a downed Hurricane southeast of Folkestone. 1st April 1940 - 19th Destroyer Flotilla 38th Division 1st April 1940 - Lt. Cdr. F.C. Brodrick in Command 23rd September 1941 - Lt.Cdr. Arthur Geoffrey Poe, RN In Command 23rd March 1943 - Lt. John Smallwood, RN In Command 25th September 1944 - Lt. John Aylmer McClure, DSC, RN In Command November 1944 - Cdr. John Pringle, RN In Command 23rd December 1944 - Escorted Troopships from Southampton to Cherbourg February 1945 - Lt. Douglas Leigh Satterford, DSC, RN In Command June 1945 - Lt.Cdr. (retired) Arthur Reginald Willis Sayle, RD, RNR In Command 7th June 1945 - Accompanied the King & Queen to the Channel Islands 1947 - Broken up | |||
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