H.M.S. Exmouth (1934)

H.M.S. Exmouth (1934)
Pendant Number:	H02
Builder:	Portsmouth Royal Dockyard
Launched:	7 Feb, 1934
Sunk:	21 Jan, 1940^[1]

H.M.S. Exmouth was one of eighteen "E" and "F" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy. She was one of two "leaders" of the class, having an additional 4.7-in gun and a slight speed increase.

Service

Lt. Cdr. Arthur Grey Skipwith was appointed to the ship to oversee her completion on 23 May, 1934.^[2]

Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 30 April, 1935 for service as flagship of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.^[3]

Exmouth was torpedoed north of Scotland in January, 1940. No one from her crew survived.

Captains

Captain Arthur L. St. G. Lyster, c. September, 1934^[4] – 30 April, 1935 (and as Captain (D), Fifth Destroyer Flotilla)
Captain Harold M. Burrough, 30 April, 1935 – mid 1937 (and as Captain (D), Fifth Destroyer Flotilla)
Captain Llewellyn V. Morgan, 16 June, 1937^[5] – 25 May, 1939 (and as Captain (D), Fifth Destroyer Flotilla and then Seventh Destroyer Flotilla)
Captain Richard S. Benson, 31 July, 1939^[6] – 21 January, 1940^[7] (killed when ship lost)

Footnotes

↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 39.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 240.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 239.
↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Friday, August 31, 1934, Issue 46847, p.5.
↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 239.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.