Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Antelope (H36)
Operator:	Royal Navy
Builder:	Hawthorne Leslie
Laid down:	11 July 1928
Launched:	27 July 1929
Commissioned:	20 March 1930
Fate:	Scrapped 1946
General characteristics
Class and type:	A class destroyer
Displacement:	1,350 tons standard
Length:	323 feet (98 m)
Beam:	32 feet (10 m)
Draught:	12. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) R & W Hawthorn Leslie and Company Limited, usually referred to as Hawthorn Leslie, was a St Peter's, Newcastle upon Tyne shipbuilding and Locomotive Events 911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England. The list of ship launches in 1929 includes a chronological list of notable Ships launched in 1929. Events 1600 - The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden. Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Design The A class were an Admiralty standard design based on the 1926 prototypes ''Amazon'' and ''Ambuscade''. 2 feet (4 m)
Propulsion:	3 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers steam turbines, 2 shafts, 34,000 shp
Speed:	35 knots
Range:	4,800 nm at 15 knots
Complement:	138
Armament:	(As designed) 4 × 4. 7 in (119 mm) guns Mark IX on mountings CP Mk. XIII 2 × 2 pdr Mk. The 2-pounder gun, officially designated the QF 2-pounder ( QF denoting "quick firing" and universally known as the pom-pom, was a 1 II anti-aircraft 2 × 4 tubes for 21 in torpedoes Mk. IX

HMS Antelope was a British A-class destroyer. Design The A class were an Admiralty standard design based on the 1926 prototypes ''Amazon'' and ''Ambuscade''. She was completed March 20, 1930 and assigned to the 18th Destroyer Flotilla, Channel Force, Home Fleet. Events 1600 - The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden. Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Home Fleet is the traditional name of the fleet of the Royal Navy that protects the United Kingdom 's territorial waters

In February 1940, Antelope sank U-41 in the South Western Approaches. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The U-boat had attacked an outward-bound convoy on February 5 and sunk Beaverburn. U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word, itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot ( undersea boat) and refers Events 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. It was the only U-boat at sea at the time in the area and was the first to be sunk underwater by a single destroyer. In naval terminology a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance Warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, Convoy

In April 1940, the destroyer escorted the French cruiser Emile Bertin, flagship of Admiral Derrien, to Scapa Flow after it had been damaged in action off Namsos, Norway. Operational career Before World War II Émile Bertin served as flagship for a flotilla of twelve large Destroyers of the ''Malin'' and Scapa Flow ( Old Norse: Skalpaflói) is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands is a municipality and town in the county of Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional

On June 13, 1940, Antelope collided with Electra off Trondheim, Norway, and had to return to the Tyne for repair. Events 1525 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the Celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Service First Deployment Upon commissioning in 1934 she was attached to the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet, along with the rest of her E-class (Trondhjem is a city and municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional The River Tyne is a River in England. It is formed by the confluence of two rivers the North Tyne and the South Tyne. She then returned to her base at Harwich. Harwich (ˈhærɪdʒ is a town in Essex England and one of the Haven ports, located on the coast with the North Sea

In August 1940, Antelope sailed in convoy to take part in Operation Menace, the attack on Dakar, but after HMS Fiji was torpedoed on September 1, 1940, she escorted her back to the Clyde, Scotland. The Battle of Dakar, also known as Operation Menace, was an unsuccessful attempt in September 1940 by the Allies to capture the strategic port of Dakar For the Dakar Rally see Dakar Rally. For the Israeli submarine see INS Dakar. Early career Fiji was built by John Brown and launched on 31 May 1939 Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Firth of Clyde forms a large area of coastal water sheltered from the Atlantic ocean by the Kintyre peninsula which encloses the outer Firth in Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

On October 31, 1940, Antelope sank U-31 off northwestern Ireland. Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world She rescued 43 survivors and returned them to the Clyde.

In May 1941, in the chase for the German battleship Bismarck after the battle of the Denmark Strait, Antelope searched for survivors from the sinking of HMS Hood, and later was escort to HMS Victorious. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Background Design of the ship started in the early 1930s following on from Germany's development of the ''Deutschland'' class cruisers and the ''Scharnhorst'' class The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a World War II naval conflict between ships of the British Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine History Construction Construction of Hood began at the John Brown & Company shipyards in Clydebank, Scotland, on 1 September Service Bismarck Episode In 1941 just 2 weeks after commissioning her first active mission began when she took part in the hunt for the German

In August 1941, Antelope took part in Operation Gauntlet, an operation that succeeded in destroying the coaling facilities on Spitsbergen, thus denying the coal to the enemy. During World War II, Operation Gauntlet was a Combined Operations raid by Canadian troops with British Army logistics support and Norwegian Spitsbergen (formerly known as West Spitsbergen, and sometimes misspelled Spitzbergen) is a Norwegian island the largest Island of the

In 1942 and 1943, Antelope participated in various operations to resupply Malta, including Operation Pedestal in August 1942. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Malta, officially the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta is a European Microstate, comprising an Archipelago of three islands Operation Pedestal was a British operation to get desperately needed supplies to the island of Malta in August 1942 during the Second World War. In March 1943, she escorted the Empress of Canada, but the liner was sunk on March 13. Empress of Canada may refer to one of the following ships of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company: ''Empress of Canada'' (1922, a 21517-ton Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. In 1944, she conducted numerous patrols and anti-submarine operations. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Anti-submarine warfare (ASW or in older form A/S is a branch of Naval warfare that uses surface Warships Aircraft, space craft or other Submarines In August 1945, she returned to the United Kingdom. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located

In 1946, she was sold and broken up by Hughes, Bolkow. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.