 After the ship commissioned on 21 April 1932 , she was assigned to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet . Crescent collided with her sister HMS Comet at Chatham on 21 July and was under repair until 27 August . Crescent was refitted at Chatham between 30 March and 6 May 1933 , before deploying to the West Indies between January and March 1934 . She was given another refit at Chatham from 27 July to 3 September 1934 . Crescent was detached from the Home Fleet during the Abyssinian Crisis , and deployed in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea from September 1935 to April 1936 . When the ship returned , she was refitted at Sheerness between 23 April to 13 June and placed briefly in reserve . 
