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Revision as of 12:56, 2 September 2013

H.M.S. Legion (1914)
Pendant Number: H.79 (1914)
H.54 (Jan 1918)
F.94 (Sep 1918)[1]
Builder: Denny[2]
Launched: 3 Feb, 1914[3]
Sold: May, 1921[4]

H.M.S. Legion was one of 22 destroyers of the Laforey class.

Service

In 1917, she and sisters Lawford and Loyal were converted to minelayers and operated along with the Seventh Destroyer Flotilla.

Reduced to C. & M. Party at the Nore on 29 November, 1919.[5]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 76.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 801.
  6. ↑ The Navy List (January, 1915). p. 347.

Bibliography


Laforey Class Destroyer
Admiralty Design
Llewellyn Lennox Loyal Legion Laforey
Lawford Louis Lydiard Laertes Lysander
  Lance Lookout  
White 2-Funnelled Type
  Laurel Liberty  
Yarrow 2-Funnelled Type
  Lark Landrail Laverock Linnet  
War Emergency Repeat "L" Class
  Lochinvar Lassoo Leonidas Lucifer  
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