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==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Frederick Robertson Parham|nick=Frederick R. Parham|appt=14 September, 1938{{UBAllyWarship|4424}}|end=10 November, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|4424}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Anthony Wass Buzzard|nick=Anthony W. Buzzard|appt=5 February, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4424}}|end=9 April, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4424}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=vessel lost under his command}}
 
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Revision as of 18:58, 21 May 2020

H.M.S. Gurkha (1937)
Pendant Number: F20[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[2]
Laid down: 6 Jul, 1936[3]
Launched: 7 Jul, 1937[4]
Commissioned: 21 Oct, 1938[5]
Bombed: 9 Apr, 1940[6]

H.M.S. Gurkha was one of twenty-seven Tribal Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Wikipedia.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 40.
  3. Wikipedia.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 40.
  5. Wikipedia.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 40.
  7. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  8. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  9. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  10. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  11. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  12. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  13. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  14. Uboat.net page on the ship.


Tribal Class Destroyer
British Destroyers
Afridi Ashanti Bedouin Cossack Eskimo
Gurkha Maori Mashona Matabele Mohawk
  Nubian Punjabi Sikh  
  Somali Tartar Zulu  
Australian Destroyers
  Arunta Bataan Warramunga  
Canadian Destroyers
  Athabaskan Haida Huron Iroquois  
  Athabaskan Cayuga Micmac Nootka  
<– "G", "H" and "I" Class Destroyers (UK)