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HMS Cygnet - Royal Navy C-class Destroyer

HMS Cygnet (H83) - a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. Initially assigned to the Home Fleet, although temporarily deployed in the Red Sea during the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935-36. Sold to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in late 1937 and renamed HMCS St. Laurent

Picture No
14119478
Media ID
47859509
Size
5322px x 3414px (1.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Pharcide
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1935

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