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==Captains==
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Ronald Hugh Dewhurst|nick=Ronald H. Dewhurst|appt=25 August, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|3415}}|end=1 June, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|3415}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Lennox William Napier|nick=Lennox W. Napier|appt=1 June, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|3415}}|end=19 January, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|3415}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Guy Stewart Chetwode Clarabut|nick=Guy S. C. Clarabut|appt=1 December, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|3415}}|end=27 March, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|3415}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=John Philip Holroyde Oakley|nick=John P. H. Oakley|appt=27 March, 1944{{UBAllyWarship|3415}}|end=28 July, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|3415}}}}
 
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Latest revision as of 13:36, 23 September 2021

H.M.S. Rorqual (1936)
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs
Laid down: 1 May, 1935
Launched: 21 Jul, 1936[1]
Commissioned: 10 Feb, 1937[2]
Sold: 19 Nov, 1945
H.M.S. Rorqual was one of six Grampus Class minelaying submarines completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Commissioned on 21 November, 1936 for duty with the Fourth Submarine Flotilla.[3]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), 18 Nov. 1936, p. 20.
  2. ↑ "New Submarine." The Times (London, England), 10 Feb. 1937, p. 20.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 269.
  4. ↑ "New Submarine." The Times (London, England), 10 Feb. 1937, p. 20.
  5. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  6. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  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.
  15. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  16. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.


Grampus Class Minelaying Submarine
  Porpoise Grampus Narwhal  
  Rorqual Cachalot Seal  
<– River Class Submarines (UK)  
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