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HMS Echo Laid Down : 20th March 1933 Launched : 16th February 1934 Completed : 22nd October 1934 Type : Destroyer Class : E Builder : Denny Country : UK Pennants : H23 Fate : Loaned to Greece (Navarinon) 5th April 1944. Later became : Navarinon |
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16th February 1934 - Pennant H23 16th February 1934 - Launched 22nd October 1934 - Completed at Messrs W. Denny and Bros. 25th October 1934 - Commissioned 8th December 1934 - Arrived Plymouth 15th January 1935 - Arrived Gibraltar 18th January 1935 - Arrived Arosa Bay 20th January 1935 - Sailed Arosa Bay for the West Indies 24th June 1935 - Arrived Portland 16th July 1935 - Attended 1935 Spithead Fleet Review 15th October 1935 - Arrived Grangemouth 21st October 1935 - Sailed Grangemouth 10th September 1936 - Arrived Newcastle 25th September 1936 - Arrived Invergordon 25th September 1936 - Arrived Invergordon 13th January 1937 - Arrived Santander 14th January 1937 - Arrived St. Jean de Luz 5th March 1937 - Arrived St. Jean de Luz 17th March 1937 - Sailed St. Jean de Luz for Plymouth 22nd May 1937 - Arrived Portland 30th May 1937 - Sailed Portland for Brussels 18th June 1937 - Sailed Portland for Oslo 9th July 1937 - Arrived Torbay 8th October 1937 - Arrived Portland 23rd October 1937 - Arrived Gibraltar January 1938 - 5th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet 29th March 1938 - Arrived Plymouth 19th July 1938 - Escorted The King and Queen from Dover to France 17th January 1939 - Sailed Plymouth 24th January 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 3rd April 1939 - Cdr. Stanley Herbert King Spurgeon, RAN In Command 28th April 1939 - Arrived Portland 8th June 1939 - Sailed Portland for Porthcawl August 1939 - 7th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet 24th August 1939 - Sailed Immingham For Dover 25th August 1939 - Arrived at Dover for exercises 30th August 1939 - Sailed Dover for Grimsby 31st August 1939 - Arrived Grimsby 1st September 1939 - Arrived the Humber 3rd September 1939 - 7th Destroyer Flotilla, Division 14, Humber 9th September 1939 - Escorted HMS Courageous on anti-submarine operation AS2 5th October 1939 - Sailed Plymouth for Dover 6th October 1939 - Arrived Dover 7th October 1939 - Sailed Dover for Plymouth 7th October 1939 - Sailed Southend escorting Convoy OA.16G 12th October 1939 - Arrived Plymouth 12th October 1939 - Ran aground as she entered Plymouth in a heavy fog, damaged her stern and repaired at Plymouth 17th October 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar with Merged Convoys OA.16G and OB.16B 31st October 1939 - At Plymouth with damage 17th November 1939 - Completed repairs at Plymouth 18th November 1939 - Searching for a submarine in 49.40N, 12.00W 19th November 1939 - Attacked Submarine west of Biscay in 46.51N, 11.36W 19th November 1939 - Investigated a contact 120 miles 315° from Cape Finisterre 20th November 1939 - Searched for a reported submarine in 40N, 6W 20th November 1939 - Hunted in the area of 46-20N, 6-00W for a reported damaged U-boat 25th November 1939 - Sailed Plymouth 27th November 1939 - Off Northern Ireland unsuccessfully searching for a U-boat 29th November 1939 - Arrived The Clyde 30th November 1939 - Sailed the Clyde 30th November 1939 - Sailed the Clyde 4th December 1939 - Arrived the Clyde 4th December 1939 - Arrived Loch Ewe 4th December 1939 - Arrived in the Clyde 8th December 1939 - Arrived in the Clyde 9th December 1939 - Sailed the Clyde to rendezvous and escort arriving battleship HMS Barham 11th December 1939 - Sailed the Clyde to escort HMS Barham 14th December 1939 - Arrived Rosyth 24th December 1939 - Sailed Inchkeith escorting tankers to Loch Ewe 25th December 1939 - Hunting off Rattray Head in 57-36N, 1-35W 27th December 1939 - Assisted Triumph after being hit by a mine 28th December 1939 - Arrived off May Island in the Firth of Forth 2nd January 1940 - Sailed Rosyth for escort duties between Invergordon and the Tyne 5th January 1940 - Arrived Newcastle 12th January 1940 - Relieved by HMS Exmouth on escort duty with cable ship Royal Scot 15th January 1940 - Sailed Methil Escorting a MT convoy to the Tyne 15th January 1940 - Sailed Methil escorting Convoy to The Tyne 16th January 1940 - Returned Methil with half of Convoy due to bad weather 18th January 1940 - Sailed Methil Escorting a MT convoy to the Tyne 23rd January 1940 - Attacked a contact ENE of Montrose 23rd January 1940 - Attacked a submarine contact ENE of May Island 25th January 1940 - Sailed Aberdeen escorting steamer Rutland to Scapa Flow. 26th January 1940 - Arrived at Rosyth. 30th January 1940 - Sailed Methil escorting Convoy MT.1 6th February 1940 - Sailed Aberdeen for minelaying operation LD.1 9th February 1940 - Sailed Methil escorting Convoy ON.11 12th February 1940 - Arrived Bergen with Convoy ON.11 15th February 1940 - Arrived Scapa Flow 20th February 1940 - Arrived at Leith for refitting. 29th February 1940 - Under repair at Leith 1st April 1940 - 12th Destroyer Flotilla, 23rd Division 1st April 1940 - Cdr. S.H.K. Spurgeon in Command 1st April 1940 - Repairing at Leith 11th February 1941 - Lt.Cdr. Cecil Hugo de Boisville Newby, RN In Command 17th February 1942 - Lt.Cdr. Norman Lanyon, RN In Command 1st March 1942 - Escort for Russian Convoy PQ 12 and return QP 08 to Iceland 11th February 1943 - Lt. Richard Herbert Calcraft Wyld, RN In Command 28th May 1943 - Arrived Greenock 1944 - Sold to Greece | |||
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