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Revision as of 11:17, 14 June 2018

H.M.S. Esk (1934)
Builder: Swan Hunter
Launched: 19 Mar, 1934[1]
Sunk: 31 Aug, 1940[2]
H.M.S. Esk was one of eighteen "E" and "F" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

In 1937, she was assigned to the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.[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. (July, 1937). p. 237.
  4. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 237.


"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 –>