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HMS Fame |
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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. |
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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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