HMS Scarborough (L25)
Scarborough in coastal waters on 24 August 1943
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| Name: | HMS Scarborough |
| Ordered: | 26 February 1929 |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom |
| Laid down: | 28 May 1929 |
| Launched: | 14 March 1930 |
| Commissioned: | 31 July 1930 |
| Identification: | Pennant number L22 (later U22) |
| Motto: | Tutus est fortis : 'In strength lies our safety' |
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| Badge: | On a Field Red, an ancient ship with tower Gold on wavelets Silver and Blue |
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| Class and type: | Hastings-class sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,045 tons |
| Length: | 250 ft (76 m) |
| Beam: | 34 ft (10 m) |
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| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement: | 100 |
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HMS Scarborough was a Hastings-class sloop of the Royal Navy launched in 1930. She saw active service during the Second World War, especially as a convoy escort in the North Atlantic.
Scarborough was ordered on 26 February 1929 under the 1929 building programme and was laid down at the yards of Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne on 28 May 1929. She was launched on 14 March 1930 and commissioned on 31 July 1930.
From 1931 onwards, Scarborough was part of the North America and West Indies Squadron stationed at Bermuda. The First World War hero, Augustus Agar V.C., was her captain in the early 1930s. Peacetime duties included showing the flag, especially in smaller ports of the Empire, those unlikely to be visited by large warships.
In the summer of 1931 she was in Newfoundland, then a British dominion, sometimes acting as a yacht to take the Governor around to visit smaller ports. She was on this duty again in 1933 and in 1934 took British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and his daughter up the west coast of Newfoundland to visit the Grenfell Mission at St. Anthony. While a part of the North America and West Indies Squadron in 1933 she visited Prince Edward Island in Canada. There, her then captain, Commander Oswald Cornwallis, his officers and petty officers were entertained by Canadian Senator Creelman MacArthur at his summer home on Foxley River. During her peacetime cruises she was painted in the foreign station colours of white with a buff funnel.
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