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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Fortune''''' was one of eighteen [["E" and "F" Class Destroyer (1934)|"E" and "F" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Fortune''''' was one of eighteen [["E" and "F" Class Destroyer (1934)|"E" and "F" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].


==Service==
==Service==
Commissioned on 8 May 1935 for service with the {{UK-DF|6}} of the [[Home Fleet]].{{NLOct35|p. 241}}
Re-commissioned at Chatham on 3 March, 1936 for service with the {{UK-DF|6}} of the [[Home Fleet]].{{NLJul37|p. 240}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank=Commander|name=Henry John Haynes|nick=Henry J. Haynes|appt=early 1935|ass=27 April, 1935|end=16 March, 1936|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank=Commander|name=Henry John Haynes|nick=Henry J. Haynes|appt=8 May, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 241}}|ass=27 April, 1935|end=16 March, 1936|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Ian Reddie Hamilton Black|nick=Ian R. H. Black|appt=3 March, 1936{{NLMay39|p. 286}}{{NavAppts|Monday, February 17, 1936, Issue 47300, p.23}}|end=20 April, 1938<ref>Black Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/134.|D7617130}} f. ?.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Charles Thomas Mark Pizey|nick=Charles T. M. Pizey|appt=26 April, 1938<ref>Pizey Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/96/136.|}} f. 167.</ref>{{NLMay39|p. 286}}|end=15 July, 1939{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Albert Gibbs|nick=Edward A. Gibbs|appt=15 July, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|4227}}|end=2 November, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4227}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Erroll Norman Sinclair|nick=Erroll N. Sinclair|appt=2 November, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4227}}|end=mid 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4227}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Richard Dickon Herbert Stephen Pankhurst|nick=Richard D. H. S. Pankhurst|appt=7 October, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4227}}|end=31 May, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4227}}|succBy=Became H.M.C.S. ''Saskatchewan''}}
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Latest revision as of 17:32, 15 July 2021

H.M.S. Fortune (1934)
Pendant Number: H70
Builder: John Brown & Company
Launched: 29 Aug, 1934[1]
Commissioned: 27 Apr, 1935
Broken up: 1946[2]

H.M.S. Fortune was one of eighteen "E" and "F" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commissioned on 8 May 1935 for service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.[3]

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 3 March, 1936 for service with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.[4]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 39.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 39.
  3. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 241.
  4. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 240.
  5. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 241.
  6. The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 286.
  7. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Monday, February 17, 1936, Issue 47300, p.23.
  8. Black Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/134. f. ?.
  9. Pizey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/96/136. f. 167.
  10. The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 286.
  11. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  12. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  13. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  14. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  15. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  16. Uboat.net page on the ship.


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