HMS Crescent (1931)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Crescent
Ordered	30 January 1930
Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down	1 December 1930
Launched	29 September 1931
Completed	15 April 1932
Commissioned	21 April 1932
Fate	Sold to Royal Canadian Navy, 20 October 1936
Canada
Name	Fraser
Namesake	Fraser River
Acquired	20 October 1936
Commissioned	17 February 1937
Identification	Pennant number H48
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1939-40
Fate	Sunk in a collision with HMS Calcutta, 25 June 1940
General characteristics as built
Class and type	C-class destroyer
Displacement	1,375 long tons (1,397 t) (standard) 1,865 long tons (1,895 t) (deep)
Length	329 ft (100.3 m) o/a
Beam	33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught	12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Installed power	36,000 shp (27,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	145
Armament	4 × 1 - QF 4.7-inch Mk IX guns 1 × 1 - QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun 2 × 1 - QF 2-pounder Mk II AA guns 2 × 4 - 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 × depth charges, 3 chutes

HMS Crescent was a C-class destroyer which was built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship was initially assigned to the Home Fleet, although she was temporarily deployed in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean during the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935–36. Crescent was sold to the Royal Canadian Navy in late 1936 and renamed HMCS Fraser. She was stationed on the west coast of Canada until the beginning of World War II when she was transferred to the Atlantic coast for convoy escort duties. The ship was transferred to the United Kingdom (UK) in May 1940 and helped to evacuate refugees from France upon her arrival in early June. Fraser was sunk on 25 June 1940 in a collision with the anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Calcutta while returning from one such mission.