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


==Service==
==Service==
''Electra'' was re-commissioned at Portsmouth for service with the {{UK-DF|5}} of the [[Home Fleet]] on 17 September, 1934.{{NLOct35|p. 237}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}} ('''I''', ''Fr It'')|name=Stanley Napier Blackburn|nick=Stanley N. Blackburn|appt=29 April, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 237}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Stuart Austen Buss|nick=Stuart A. Buss|appt=31 July, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|4377}}|end=28 January, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4377}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Cecil Wakeford May|nick=Cecil W. May|appt=28 January, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|4377}}|end=27 February, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4377}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=killed when ship lost under his command}}
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==See Also==
==See Also==
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Electra_(H27)}}
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Latest revision as of 20:24, 8 December 2021

H.M.S. Electra (1934)
Pendant Number: H27
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie & Company
Launched: 15 Feb, 1934[1]
Sunk: 27 Feb, 1942[2]

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

Service

Electra was re-commissioned at Portsmouth for service with the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet on 17 September, 1934.[3]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 237.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 237.
  5. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  6. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  7. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  8. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.


"E" and "F" Class Destroyer
"E" Class Leader
  Exmouth  
Destroyers
  Echo Eclipse Electra Encounter  
  Escapade Escort Esk Express  
"F" Class Leader
  Faulknor  
Destroyers
  Fame Fearless Firedrake Forester  
  Foresight Fortune Foxhound Fury  
<– "C" and "D" Class Destroyers (UK) "G", "H" and "I" Class –>


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