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Re-commissioned at Devonport on 30 April, 1936 for service with the {{UK-DF|5}} of the [[Home Fleet]].{{NLJul37|p. 236}}
  
 
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Revision as of 10:37, 14 June 2018

H.M.S. Echo (1934)
Builder: William Denny & Brothers
Launched: 16 Feb, 1934[1]
Transferred: 1944[2]
Fate: to Greece
H.M.S. Echo was one of eighteen "E" and "F" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Re-commissioned at Devonport on 30 April, 1936 for service with the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.[3]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  3. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 236.
  4. Durnford Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/129. f. 128.
  5. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 236.


"E" and "F" Class Destroyer
"E" Class Leader
  Exmouth  
Destroyers
  Echo Eclipse Electra Encounter  
  Escapade Escort Esk Express  
"F" Class Leader
  Faulknor  
Destroyers
  Fame Fearless Firedrake Forester  
  Foresight Fortune Foxhound Fury  
<– "C" and "D" Class Destroyers (UK) "G", "H" and "I" Class –>