Dates: 1930 - 1970

C-Class Destroyer ordered from Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow under the revised 1930 Build Programme on 9th July 1930. This ship was laid down as Yard No 668 on 1st December 1930 and named HMS CRESCENT when launched on 29th September 1930 at the sane time as her sister ship HMS CYGNET also laid down on the sane date in 1930. She was the 12th RN ship to carry the name, first used by a mercantile hired at Dartmouth in 1588 for use in the attacks on the Spanish Armada. It was last used in 1920 when HM Battleship GLORY was renamed for service as a Depot Ship. Build was-, completed on 15th April 1932 and the ship was used for special trials to compare performance of ’Seaglis’ type propellers used by Italian warships with the standard Admiralty type. The results showed little difference in speeds achieved during a six hour trial. On completion of trials she Joined 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet and served in the West Indies in 1934. Later in 1935 the ship was detached for service in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean for six months after the invasion of the Italian invasion of Abyssinia. She reduced to Reserve on return to UK and deployed at Chatham for the training of Reservists. On 17th February 1937 she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and commissioned as HMCS FRASER at Chatham. She arrived at Esquimalt on 3rd May 1937 and until taking up her war station was deployed in the Pacific. The ship took passage to Halifax and from 15th September was deployed for escort of Atlantic convoys

Badge : On a Field Blue, a Crescent Silver

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