The ship was ordered on 22 March 1929 from Swan Hunter at Wallsend , under the 1928 Naval Programme . She was laid down on 10 August 1929 , and launched on 6 December 1930 , as the sixth RN ship to carry this name . '' Bulldog '' was completed on 8 April 1931 at a cost of £ 221,408 , excluding items supplied by the Admiralty such as guns , ammunition and communications equipment . After her commissioning , she was assigned to the 4th Destroyer Flotilla with the Mediterranean Fleet until September 1936 , when it was transferred to the Home Fleet . '' Bulldog '' aided survivors of the 1932 Ierissos earthquake and patrolled southern Spanish waters during the first month of the Spanish Civil War . During her time in the Mediterranean , the ship was refitted at Gibraltar in 1932 and 1935 and in Malta in 1936 . Once she returned to Britain , '' Bulldog '' was almost continuously under repair or refitting at Chatham Dockyard until 9 January 1937 . She remained with the 4th Flotilla until January 1939 , and made multiple deployments off the coast of Spain enforcing the embargo until 31 March 1938 , when she was refitted , this time at Sheerness Dockyard . The ship escorted the battleship to Scapa Flow in September during the Munich Crisis . '' Bulldog '' was briefly assigned to the Gibraltar Local Flotilla in January 1939 , until she became plane guard for the aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean in March
1932 Ierissos earthquake
1932 Ierissos earthquake
HMS Bulldog (H91)