The Early Years
She was launched at East Cowes on 9 January 1939 and named by the Mayoress of Kingston upon Thames. Commissioned on 14 September 1939, she joined the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet, for convoy defence and anti-submarine duties in the North Sea.
In company with the destroyers HMS Kashmir and HMS Icarus, Kingston attacked German submarine U-35 in the North Sea off Shetland on 29 November 1939, and sank her. All the crew of the U-boat were saved.
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