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HMS Faulknor |
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HMS Faulknor Laid Down : 31st July 1933 Launched : 12th June 1934 Completed : 24th May 1935 Type : Destroyer Class : F Builder : Yarrow Country : UK Pennants : H62 Fate : Sold for scrap 22nd January 1946. |
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HMS Faulknor, July 1935. |
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17th March 1933 - Ordered 31st July 1933 - Laid down at Scotstoun Shipyard of Yarrow 12th June 1934 - Pennant H62 12th June 1934 - Launched 11th February 1935 - 6th Destroyer Flotilla 24th May 1935 - Commissioned 25th May 1935 - Arrived Portsmouth 16th July 1935 - Attended 1935 Spithead Fleet Review 11th February 1936 - Sailed Gibraltar 7th March 1936 - Sailed UK for Malta 2nd April 1936 - 6th Destroyer Flotilla 20th July 1936 - Arrived Portsmouth 10th October 1936 - Arrived Rosyth 18th April 1937 - Arrived and sailed La Rochelle 7th June 1937 - Arrived Dartmouth 11th June 1937 - Sailed Dartmouth 4th August 1937 - In Collission with steamer Clan Macfadyen off Ushant 4th August 1937 - Collision with Steamer Clan Macfadyen off Ushant January 1938 - 6th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet 29th March 1938 - Arrived Portsmouth 31st March 1938 - Capt. V.H. Danckwerts in Command 1st April 1938 - Capt. Charles Saumarez Daniel, RN In Command 1st April 1938 - Capt. C.S. Daniel in Command 5th July 1938 - 6th Destroyer Flotilla 10th July 1938 - Completed Combined exercises 17th January 1939 - Sailed Portsmouth 22nd January 1939 - Arrived Bordeaux 26th January 1939 - Sailed Bordeaux 30th January 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 27th February 1939 - Combined Exercise 27th February 1939 - Sailed Gibraltar 3rd March 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 6th March 1939 - Sailed Gibraltar 6th March 1939 - Combined Exercise 10th March 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 18th March 1939 - Sailed Gibraltar 23rd March 1939 - Arrived Home Ports 27th July 1939 - Sailed Portsmouth August 1939 - 8th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet 15th August 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow for exercises 21st August 1939 - Arrived Invergordon 25th August 1939 - Arrived Scapa Flow 31st August 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow. Deployed in the North Sea between the Orkneys and Norway. 3rd September 1939 - 8th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet, Scapa Flow 6th September 1939 - Arrived Scapa Flow 14th September 1939 - Sunk U-39 North west of Ireland after a failed torpedo attempt U-39 4th October 1939 - Investiged Submarine report 60 miles SSW of Sumburgh Head 8th October 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow 10th October 1939 - Weather damaged and repaired in the Clyde 11th October 1939 - Arrive Loch Ewe 31st October 1939 - At Clyde for repairs 1st November 1939 - Arrived Rosyth 2nd November 1939 - Sailed Loch Ewe for Convoy Cover 2nd November 1939 - Repairs completed 9th November 1939 - Arrived Rosyth for refuelling 12th November 1939 - Sailed Rosyth to carry out full calibre firings before proceeding on patrol between the Faroes and Norway 21st November 1939 - Arrived in the Clyde from Loch Ewe 23rd November 1939 - Sailed the Clyde for a position off the Norwegian coast 24th November 1939 - At Sea 1st December 1939 - North of the Faroes to cover AMCs returning to Northern Patrol 4th December 1939 - At Loch Ewe 4th December 1939 - Arrived Loch Ewe en route to the Clyde 28th December 1939 - Sailed Loch Ewe 28th December 1939 - Sent into Loch Ewe 28th December 1939 - Sailed Loch Ewe to join damaged Barham 4th January 1940 - Sailed Loch Ewe for Portsmouth escorting HMS Nelson 4th January 1940 - Sailed Loch Ewe for Portsmouth escorting HMS Nelson 7th January 1940 - Arrived Portsmouth 7th January 1940 - Arrived Portsmouth 9th January 1940 - Sailed Portsmouth for the Clyde 10th January 1940 - Escorted HMS Canton 11th January 1940 - Searched for Submarine off Mersey Light, six miles 280° from Bar Light Vessel 12th January 1940 - Attacked a submarine contact NNW of Inishtrahull 14th January 1940 - Sailed Greenock on patrol 17th January 1940 - Arrived at Scapa Flow 2nd February 1940 - Sailed Greenock for an anti-submarine sweep towards the Mull of Kintyre 7th February 1940 - Arrived in the Clyde 8th February 1940 - Sailed The Clyde on patrol 13th February 1940 - Refuelled at Sullom Voe and returned to Battle Group 15th February 1940 - At sea near Pentland Firth covering Operation DT 19th February 1940 - Sailed the Clyde 19th February 1940 - Capt. Antony Fane de Salis, RN In Command 24th February 1940 - Arrived Greenock. 27th February 1940 - Escorted HMS Malaya and HMS Ascania from the Clyde 1st March 1940 - Arrived The Clyde 2nd March 1940 - Sailed the Clyde to cover the ON/HN Convoys 7th March 1940 - Arrived Scapa Flow 8th March 1940 - Sailed Scapa Flow 12th March 1940 - Sailed Scapa Flow to join Convoy ON.19 12th March 1940 - Sailed the Clyde for Scapa Flow 14th March 1940 - Sailed Bergen escorting Convoy HN.19 14th March 1940 - Arrived Bergen with Convoy ON.19 17th March 1940 - Arrived Scapa Flow 23rd March 1940 - Engaged in anti-submarine exercises from Scapa Flow. 23rd March 1940 - Sailed Scapa Flow to searched for submarine west of Foula Island 24th March 1940 - Departed search area for Kirkwall 24th March 1940 - Departed her anti-submarine patrol northwest of the Orkneys to proceed to Kirkwall 25th March 1940 - Joined Convoy ON.22 27th March 1940 - Arrived Bergen with Convoy ON.22 1st April 1940 - 8th Destroyer Flotilla, 15th Division Captain D 1st April 1940 - Capt. A.F. de Salis in Command 27th November 1940 - Battle Of Cape Spartivento, Sardinia 27th November 1940 - Force H 26th January 1942 - Capt. Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, RN In Command 1st March 1942 - Escort for Russian Convoy PQ 12 and return QP 08 to Iceland 28th September 1943 - Capt. Mervyn Somerset Thomas, DSO, RN In Command 7th October 1943 - Attacked a German convoy, north of Astipalea (Stampalia) in the Dodecanese 24th February 1944 - Lt.Cdr. Eric George May, RN In Command April 1944 - Cdr. (retired) Charles Fraser Harrington Churchill, DSC, RN In Command 6th June 1944 - Participated in the Normandy Landings 19th December 1944 - Cdr. Douglas Eric Holland-Martin, DSO, DSC, RN In Command 3rd April 1945 - Cdr. George Emery Fardell, RN In Command 7th June 1945 - Accompanied the King & Queen to the Channel Islands 1946 - Broken up |
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Last edited : 21:39, March 21, 2011
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First Added : 11:18, November 24, 2010
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