HMS Cygnet (H83)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Cygnet and HMCS St. Laurent.

St Laurent, 20 August 1941
History
United Kingdom
NameCygnet
NamesakeCygnet
Ordered9 July 1930
BuilderVickers-Armstrongs, Barrow
Yard number667
Laid down1 December 1930
Launched29 September 1931
Completed1 April 1932
Decommissioned30 September 1936
IdentificationPennant number: H83
FateSold to the Royal Canadian Navy, 1 February 1937
Canada
NameSt. Laurent
NamesakeSt. Lawrence River
Acquired1 February 1937
Commissioned17 February 1937
Decommissioned10 October 1945
IdentificationPennant number: H83
Honours and
awards
  • Atlantic 1939-45
  • Normandy 1944
FateScrapped in 1947
General characteristics
Class and typeC-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 1,375 long tons (1,397 t) (standard)
  • 1,865 long tons (1,895 t) (deep)
Length329 ft (100.3 m) o/a
Beam33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Installed power36,000 shp (27,000 kW)
Propulsion
Speed36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement145
Armament

HMS Cygnet was a C-class destroyer 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 during the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935–36. Cygnet was sold to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in late 1937 and renamed HMCS St. Laurent. She was stationed on the west coast of Canada when World War II began in September 1939, and had to be transferred to the Atlantic coast for convoy escort duties. She served as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic and participated in the sinking of two German submarines. The ship was on anti-submarine patrols during the invasion of Normandy, and was employed as a troop transport after VE Day for returning Canadian servicemen. St. Laurent was decommissioned in late 1945 and scrapped in 1947.