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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Malcolm Rodgers|nick=John M. Rodgers|appt=5 January, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 240}}|end=}}
 
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Revision as of 09:45, 16 September 2019

H.M.S. Firedrake (1934)
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Tyne
Launched: 28 Jun, 1934[1]
Sunk: 16 Dec, 1942[2]
H.M.S. Firedrake was one of eighteen "E" and "F" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commissioned on 4 June, 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. 240.
  4. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 240.
  5. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 240.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 240.
  7. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  8. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  9. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  10. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  11. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  12. 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 –>