HMS Exmouth (H02)
E-class destroyer for the Royal Navy in the 1930s / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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HMS Exmouth was an E-class destroyer flotilla leader built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion, the ship was attached to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1935–36 during the Abyssinia Crisis. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 she spent considerable time in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Exmouth was assigned to convoy escort and anti-submarine patrol duties in the Western Approaches when World War II began in September 1939. She was sunk by a German submarine in January 1940 while escorting a merchant ship north of Scotland.
HMS Exmouth leaving the port of Bilbao, Basque Country, 1936. | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Exmouth |
Ordered | 1 November 1932 |
Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard |
Laid down | 15 March 1933 |
Launched | 30 January 1934 |
Commissioned | 9 November 1934 |
Motto |
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Honours and awards | Atlantic 1939 |
Fate | Sunk by German submarine U-22, 21 January 1940 |
Badge | On a Field Red, a lion passant Gold |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | E-class destroyer flotilla leader |
Displacement | |
Length | 343 ft (104.5 m) o/a |
Beam | 33 ft 9 in (10.3 m) |
Draught | 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 × shafts, 2 × geared steam turbines |
Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 175 |
Sensors and processing systems | ASDIC |
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