Leith was ordered on 1 November 1932 under the 1931 Programme. She was laid down at Devonport Dockyard on 6 February 1933, launched on 9 September 1933 and commissioned on 10 July 1934. She was initially assigned to the New Zealand Station, manned by the Chatham Port Division. Leith arrived at Auckland on 13 NovemberContinue reading “The NZ Division, of the Royal Navy. – HMS Leith was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War”
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The NZ Division, of the Royal Navy. – HMS Leith was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War
Leith was ordered on 1 November 1932 under the 1931 Programme. She was laid down at Devonport Dockyard on 6 February 1933, launched on 9 September 1933 and commissioned on 10 July 1934. She was initially assigned to the New Zealand Station, manned by the Chatham Port Division. Leith arrived at Auckland on 13 NovemberContinue reading “The NZ Division, of the Royal Navy. – HMS Leith was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War”
The NZ Division, of the Royal Navy. – HMS Leith was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War
Leith was ordered on 1 November 1932 under the 1931 Programme. She was laid down at Devonport Dockyard on 6 February 1933, launched on 9 September 1933 and commissioned on 10 July 1934. She was initially assigned to the New Zealand Station, manned by the Chatham Port Division. Leith arrived at Auckland on 13 NovemberContinue reading “The NZ Division, of the Royal Navy. – HMS Leith was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War”
The NZ Division, of the Royal Navy. – HMS Leith was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War
Leith was ordered on 1 November 1932 under the 1931 Programme. She was laid down at Devonport Dockyard on 6 February 1933, launched on 9 September 1933 and commissioned on 10 July 1934. She was initially assigned to the New Zealand Station, manned by the Chatham Port Division. Leith arrived at Auckland on 13 NovemberContinue reading “The NZ Division, of the Royal Navy. – HMS Leith was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War”
The NZ Division, of the Royal Navy. HMS Leith
HMS LEITH completed at Devonport and, after trials with a local crew,commissioned there 10th. July 1934 with a Chatham crew for service on theNew Zealand Station, for which she sailed on 13th.August 1934 , after acourtesy visit to the port of Leith, arriving on station at Auckland 13th.November1934 . HMS LEITH”s duty in New ZealandContinue reading “The NZ Division, of the Royal Navy. HMS Leith”
