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HMS Fame - World Naval Ships Directory

HMS Fame
Name : HMS Fame
Laid Down : 5th July 1933
Launched : 28th June 1934
Completed : 26th April 1935
Type : Destroyer
Class : F
Builder : Vickers
Country : UK
Pennants : H78
Fate : To Dominican Republic (February 1949).
Later became : Generalissimo

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HMS Fame, July 1937.


HMS Fame, May 1938.

Timeline Entries :


28th June 1934 - Pennant H78
28th June 1934 - Launched
11th February 1935 - 6th Destroyer Flotilla
26th April 1935 - Sailed Barrow
27th April 1935 - Arrived Plymouth
28th April 1935 - Arrived Plymouth
29th April 1935 - Joined 6th Destroyer Flotilla
29th April 1935 - Commissioned at Plymouth
14th May 1935 - Sailed Plymouth for Portland
24th May 1935 - Arrived Scapa Flow
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
19th June 1936 - Arrived Mersa Matruh
20th July 1936 - Arrived Plymouth
27th April 1937 - Arrived Portland
27th April 1937 - Sailed Plymouth for Portland
22nd May 1937 - Arrived Portland
7th June 1937 - Arrived Fowey
11th June 1937 - Sailed Fowey
3rd August 1937 - Sailed Plymouth
January 1938 - 6th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet
29th March 1938 - Arrived Plymouth
5th July 1938 - 6th Destroyer Flotilla
5th July 1938 - Commenced Combined exercises
10th July 1938 - Completed Combined exercises
28th July 1938 - Cdr. Philip Norman Walter, RN In Command
22nd November 1938 - Arrived Portsmouth
17th January 1939 - Sailed Plymouth
24th January 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar
29th July 1939 - Sailed Plymouth
August 1939 - 8th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet
1st August 1939 - Arrived Rosyth
15th August 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow for exercises
21st August 1939 - Arrived Invergordon
27th 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, Division 16, Home Fleet, Scapa Flow
6th September 1939 - Arrived Scapa Flow
1st October 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow for Loch Ewe
2nd October 1939 - Arrived Loch Ewe
8th October 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow
11th October 1939 - Arrived Scapa Flow
12th October 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow escorting HMS Repulse
22nd October 1939 - Completed boiler clean at Scapa Flow
23rd October 1939 - Off Norwegian Coast
23rd October 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow to escort an iron ore convoy from Narvik
30th October 1939 - Depth charged a submarine contact near Kinnaird Head
3rd November 1939 - Joined Convoy ON.1
3rd November 1939 - Detached from Convoy ON.1
5th November 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow to join Nelson
9th November 1939 - Arrived Rosyth for refuelling
21st November 1939 - Arrived in the Clyde from Loch Ewe
23rd November 1939 - Sailed the Clyde for a position off the Norwegian coast
23rd November 1939 - Detached to Pentland Firth Patrol
28th November 1939 - Arrived Scapa Flow
30th November 1939 - At Clyde repairing
22nd December 1939 - Arrived Loch Ewe with the 1st Minesweeping Flotilla arrived at Loch Ewe
25th December 1939 - Conducted an anti-submarine sweep off Ailsa Craig
28th December 1939 - Arrived Liverpool escorting HMS Barham
30th December 1939 - Arrived in the Clyde
10th January 1940 - Escorted HMS Canton
12th January 1940 - Patrolled off Mersey Light, six miles 280° from Bar Light Vessel
13th January 1940 - Arrived in the Clyde
14th January 1940 - Sailed Greenock on patrol
17th January 1940 - Arrived at Scapa Flow
18th January 1940 - Sailed Scapa Flow
18th January 1940 - 8th Destroyer Flotilla
20th January 1940 - Arrived at Sullom Voe to refuel.
24th January 1940 - Arrived in the Clyde from patrol.
24th January 1940 - Arrived 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
11th February 1940 - Refuelled at Sullom Voe and returned to Battle Group
15th February 1940 - At sea near Pentland Firth covering Operation DT
24th February 1940 - Conducted diving trials with Submarine Tetrarch
27th February 1940 - Escorted HMS Malaya and HMS Ascania from the Clyde
1st March 1940 - Arrived The Clyde
3rd March 1940 - Attacked submarine contact without result
7th March 1940 - Arrived Scapa Flow
7th March 1940 - Sailed Scapa Flow and escorted four ships from Convoy ON.18 to Scapa Flow
7th March 1940 - Made attacks on a contact sighted by aircraft ESE of Noss Head
11th March 1940 - Sailed Scapa Flow on patrol
12th March 1940 - Joined west coast section of Convoy HN.18
12th March 1940 - Sailed the Clyde for Scapa Flow
13th March 1940 - Arrived Scapa Flow
19th March 1940 - Patrolled the north end of Gutter Sound
20th March 1940 - Sailed Scapa Flow on Operation DU
23rd March 1940 - Arrived Scapa Flow
24th March 1940 - Sailed Scapa Flow
24th March 1940 - Attacked a submarine contact at 1900 east, southeast of Copinsay
24th March 1940 - Searched the area 17° of 58-57N, 2-12W during the night
25th March 1940 - Searched for survivors off N.E. Coast Orkney
1st April 1940 - 8th Destroyer Flotilla, 16th Division
1st April 1940 - Cdr. P.N. Walter in Command
1st April 1940 - Repairing at Grimsby
6th July 1940 - Cdr. Cecil Athos Newcome Chatwin, RN In Command
August 1942 - Cdr. Ralph Heathcote, RN In Command
14th July 1943 - Cdr. Robert Alexander Currie, RN In Command
April 1945 - Lt.Cdr. John Anthony Luther, RN In Command
12th June 1945 - A/Lt.Cdr. Roland Lindsay Boddy, RN In Command
11th September 1945 - Cdr. John Grant, DSO, RN In Command
1948 - Sold to Dominican Republic

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High above the trenches in April 1918, 74 Squadron engage the famed JG 1 led by the renowned ace baron von Richthofen in his distinctive bright red DR 1. Edward Mick mannock flying a SE5.a diving down top engage another Fokker Dr1 as the red baron flies past momentarily catching each others eyes. The new CO of 74 squadron, major Grid Caldwell MC (bar) New Zealands top ace can be seen above entering the dog fight. But it would be Mannock who would go on to great fame. with 61 confirmed victories and to win the VC, DSO (bar) and MC (bar) After 74 squadron he replaced Billy Bishop of CO 85 Squadron on the 3rd July 1918, scoring 46 victories in the Se5.a He was killed by ground fire near Lestram, France on the 26th July 1918. his Victoria Cross being gazetted on the 18th July 1919. The red baron CO of the Richthofens Flying circus didnt survive the month, also killed by ground fire on the 24th April, he was buried by the Allies with full military honours.

Dawn Dog Fight, Mick Mannock VC by Graeme Lothian.
Half Price! - £50.00 		For Manfred von Richthofen, the air battle in the skies west of Amiens on 20th April 1918 was to yield a final two victories to add to the seventy eight with which he was already credited. But these were to be his last, the Red Baron finally succumbing the following day. Just moments before Second Lieutenant David Lewis' 3 Sqn Sopwith Camel fell to the German's guns (the young pilot surviving to tell his story of being the Red Baron's final victim), Major Richard Raymond-Barker was not so lucky, his aircraft burning furiously until it hit the ground in a fireball near the Forest of Hamel.

The 79th Victory by Ivan Berryman. (P)
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Duxford Pair by Ivan Berryman.
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The Fledgling by Ivan Berryman. (D)
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A pair of F18 Hornets overfly the Nimitz-class carrier USS Dwight Eisenhower (CV-69) with the surface combatant USS Arleigh Burke (DDF-51) off her port bow.

USS Dwight Eisenhower by Ivan Berryman. (Y)
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Timber Wolf by Nicolas Trudgian.
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Concorde over Manhattan by Ivan Berryman.
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Low Level Raiders by Keith Woodcock. (Y)
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Captain Charles Vane was born in 1680, and was an English pirate who preyed upon English and French shipping. Vane began piracy in 1716 and lasted 3 years. Vane captured a Barbados sloop and then a large 12-gun brigantine, which he renamed the Ranger. Vane was among the pirate captains who operated out of the Bohama at the notorious base at New Providence after the colony had been abandoned by the British. His pirate attacks made Captain Charles Vane well known to the Royal Navy and in February of 1718 Vincent Pearse, commander of HMS Phoenix cornered Vane on his ship the Lark. Vane had heard of the recent royal pardons that had been offered to pirates in exchange for a guarantee they would quit plundering, so Vane claimed he had actually been en route to surrender to Pearse and accepted the pardon on the spot, Charle Vane gained his freedom but as soon as he was free of Pearse he ignored the pardon and resumed his pirate ways. Charles Vane was again captured and in 1721 was executed by hanging at Gallows Point, Port Royal, Jamaica on March 29th 1721.
Captain Charles Vane by Chris Collingwood.
Half Price! - £40.00 		Shrouded in secrecy, the fleet gathers alongside the Semaphore tower and under cover of dusk begins to move out to the channel preparing for its daunting task.

Prelude to D-Day by Bill Bishop. (Y)
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HMS King George V by Ivan Berryman (AP)
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Arctic Waters by Randall Wilson. (AP)
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Viewed from beneath the blistered guns of the damaged X and Y turrets of her sister HMS Ajax, Achilles come sunder fire from the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee during what was to become known as the Battle of the River Plate on the 13th December 1939. Shells from Achilles are closing on her opponent as the Graf Spee alters course at the start of the doomed battleships flight to Montevideo

The Pursuit of the Graf Spee by Ivan Berryman (P)
Half Price! - £2800.00 		The pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, passes Gibraltar on her way to join HMS Prince of Wales at Scapa Flow and onto her short and tragic engagement with the German battleship Bismarck.

HMS Hood Passing Gibraltar by Brian Wood (P)
Half Price! - £1600.00 		USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) refuels an Adams class Destroyer during a dusk operation off the Vietnam coast as a pair of E8 Crusaders are readied for launch on the forward catapults.

USS Kitty Hawk by Ivan Berryman. (Y)
Half Price! - £50.00 		The newly converted Command Helicopter Cruiser HMS Blake leaves Grand Harbour Malta at the end of the 1960s. In the background, the old Submarine Depot ship HMS Forth lies at anchor at the very end of her long career.

HMS Blake by Ivan Berryman.
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US Air Force F15 Eagle over flys British Challenger Tank during the Gulf War.
Gulf Buddies by Geoff Lea.
Half Price! - £50.00 		Showing William III in full Black Armour at the time of the Battle of Boyne.

William III by Chris Collingwood. (Y)
Half Price! - £50.00 		Commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade, led by Lord Lovat, are piped past the defenders of the Caen canal (Pegasus) bridge by piper Bill Millin. The bridge was originally taken in a coup de main attack by the gliders of 6th Airborne Divisions D Company, 2nd battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, led by Major John Howard earlier that morning. Shortly afterwards the glider troops were reinforced by 7 Parachute Battalion, and together they held the area against German attacks until the main British forces landing at Sword beach could fight through to join them.

Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13.00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. (Y)
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Original art for the poster of the film The Big Red One starring Lee Marvin by Chris Collingwood.
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DHM259P. News from the Front by Mark Churms. (P)

News from the Front by Mark Churms. (P)
Half Price! - £2200.00 		Alfred was born in 849 at Wantage, Oxfordshire He was the youngest son of King Ethelwulf of Wessex, he became King of the Anglo Saxon Kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is known for his great defence of the Kingdoms of southern England against the Vikings. Eventually in 871 he made peace with the Vikings who agreed to a withdrawal out of his kingdom. It is likely a large payment of gold was made. Alfred was awarded the epithet The Great, and was the only king to be awarded this title. Alfred the Great was a learned man and improved the education and legal and military systems and structure. Alfred died on the 26th October 899.

Alfred The Great by Chris Collingwood. (Y)
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Officer of Probyns Horse Engages Mutineers, Lucknow 1857 by Mark Churms. (P)
Half Price! - £162.00 		DHM249. Depicting General La Salle before his last charge before being killed at the Battle of Wagram.

La Salle at the Battle of Wagram by Mark Churms
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Jonjo O'Neill. Cheltenham Champion Hurdle 1984, Cheltenham Gold Cup 1986.

Dawn Run by Peter Deighan.
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Hodgson at Speed by Derrick Mark.
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Throwing the Discus by Eduard Joseph Danton.
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1980 Grand Slam by James Owen. (Y)
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Twickenham, March 16th 1996. England return to the running game to clinch victory in style over Ireland and retain the Five Nations Championship.

In Full Flight by Keith Fearon.
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England by Peter Deighan.
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Ally McCoist MBE by Scott Bridges.
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Damon Hill/ Williams FW.17 by Ivan Berryman
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