HMS Crusader (H60) - a Royal Navy C-class destroyer

HMS Crusader (H60) - a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in 1931. She saw service in the Home and Mediterranean Fleets and spent six months during the Spanish Civil War in late 1936 in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Crusader was sold to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1938 and renamed HMCS Ottawa. Sunk by the German submarine U-91 on 14 September 1942

C-class Crusader Destroyer Hmcs Ottawa

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