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==Service==
==Service==
Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 3 March, 1936 for service as flagship in the {{UK-DF|6}} of the [[Home Fleet]].{{NLJul37|p. 239}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
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Revision as of 19:39, 14 June 2018

H.M.S. Faulknor (1934)
Builder: Yarrow & Company
Launched: 12 Jun, 1934[1]
Broken up: 1946[2]

H.M.S. Faulknor was one of eighteen "E" and "F" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy. She was one of two "leaders" of the class, having an additional 4.7-in gun and a slight speed increase.

Service

Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 3 March, 1936 for service as flagship in the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.[3]

Captains

{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Victor Hilary Danckwerts|nick=Victor H. Danckwerts|appt=3 March, 1936[4]|end=|note=and as Captain (D), Destroyer Flotilla}

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 39.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 39.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 239.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 239.


"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 –>


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