H.M.S. Fortune (1934)

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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. The Navy List. (May, 1939). p. 286.
  10. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  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.


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"F" Class Leader
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