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Revision as of 09:56, 16 September 2019

H.M.S. Escort (1934)
Builder: Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Launched: 29 Mar, 1934[1]
Sunk: 11 Jul, 1940[2]
H.M.S. Escort was one of eighteen "E" and "F" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 30 April, 1935 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. 237.
  4. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 237.
  5. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  6. Uboat.net page on the ship.


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