Dates: 1932 - 1945
C-Class Destroyer ordered with sister destroyer to be named HMS CRUSADER from HM Dockyard Portsmouth on 15th July 1930 under the 1929 Build Programme. This programme was intended to include a full Flotilla of eight ships with a Flotilla Leader but on 30th January 1930 it was announced that only four destroyers and a Flotilla Leader would be built under the estimates as part of the economies being made during the depressed economy of that period. The ship was laid down on 12th September 1930 with the sister destroyer and launched on 30th September 1931, the same day as HMS CRUSADER. This destroyer was the 13th to bear the name, introduced in 1695 for a Bomb Ship, and last borne by a destroyer built in 1910 and sunk by an Italian submarine in the Mediterranean on 6th August 1918. It was also used by a tug lost by grounding in Tigris on 1st December 1915 and by a hired vessel used as a decoy during WW2 and sunk by a mine off Falmouth on 30th September 1940. Build of this ship was completed on 2nd June 1932 and she was renamed HMCS RESTIGOUCHE on 15th June 1938 after transfer to the Royal Canadian Navy.
Badge: On a Field Black, a Comet Silver.
Forces Reunited Forum Posts involving HMS Comet
" Old Ships There must be some "Old Salts" out there who remember their old ships. Talk to me you old Guzz lads and tell me if you were on HMS Comet 1954 to 1955. Or did you ever serve time on HMS Ramehead 1952 or HMS Roberts 1953. On your cap tally you would have worn ..."
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" EOKA I well recall 1954 when I was on HMS Comet we ambushed a Greek gun runner supplying arms etc... to the terrorists. It was a night boarding in a little bay in the south (?) of Cyprus after a shot across the bows of the Greek ship. There was also an army presence ashore to snare those waiting to receive the guns.Exciting times they were. "
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" HMS Comet,1954-55 Med.Fleet,5th Destroyer Flotilla. I’m looking for a scouse,Tom Dinwoodie and Brum Gill who were with me on Comet. But if there are any other ex Comets out there please be upstanding. She was a destroyer minelayer and could she motor. But not as fast as the Eagle - I was on ..."
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" All this s... about something that happened donkeys years ago is a waste of time. Of course it happened,thousands of allied soldiers saw the aftermath in the camps - how anyone can say it didn’t happen is a mystery to me. Come on Scouse,tell me when HMS Comet was broken up - its much more important ! "
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" Quoting: nigel kendall Thanks for that scouse. Tis a sad way for any ship to end. We silly sailors tend to fall in love with the ships we sail in but always have favourite love. My favourite love was the Comet,a destroyer/mine layer. I all but cried when I left her in May 1955 - strange but I ..."
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