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==Captains==
 
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Revision as of 19:26, 17 April 2018

H.M.S. Folkestone (1930)
Builder: Swan Hunter[1]
Launched: 12 Feb, 1930[2]
Completed: 1 Jul, 1930[3]
Broken up: 1947[4]
H.M.S. Folkestone was one of five Hastings Class sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commissioned at Portsmouth on 1 July, 1930.[5]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 56.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 56.
  3. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 239.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 56.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 239.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1931). p. 240.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 239.
  8. Blackman Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/336. f. ?.
  9. Date not legible in his service record.

Bibliography


Hastings Class Sloop
Original Design
  Folkestone Hastings Penzance Scarborough  
R.I.M. Design
  Hindustan