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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Fame''''' was one of eighteen [["E" and "F" Class Destroyer (1934)|"E" and "F" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Fame''''' was one of eighteen [["E" and "F" Class Destroyer (1934)|"E" and "F" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].


==Service==
==Service==
Re-commissioned at Devonport on 3 March, 1936 for service in the {{UK-DF|6}} of the [[Home Fleet]].{{NLJul37|p. 239}}
Lady Pound, the wife of [[Second Sea Lord]], Vice-Admiral Sir [[Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound|Dudley Pound]] performed the naming ceremony for ''Fame'' at her launching on 28 June, 1934.  Two sisters were launched the same day: {{UK-Firedrake}} and {{UK-Forester}}.{{ToL|Destroyer Launches|28 June 1934, p. 9}}
 
''Fame'' was re-commissioned at Plymouth on 29 April, 1935 for service in the {{UK-DF|6}} of the [[Home Fleet]].{{NLOct35|p. 240}}
 
She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 3 March, 1936 for service in the {{UK-DF|6}} of the [[Home Fleet]].{{NLJul37|p. 239}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Fame''" nat=UK>
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Fame''" nat=UK>
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Waldemar William Powell Shirley-Rollison|nick=Waldemar W. P. Shirley-Rollison|appt=1 September, 1936{{NLJul37|p. 239}}|end=c. 28 July, 1938<ref>Walter Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/121/136.|D7616486}} f. ?.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edmund Mount Haes|nick=Edmund M. Haes|appt=May, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 240}}|end=1 September, 1936<ref>Haes Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/121/98.|}} f. 98.</ref>|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Philip Norman Walter|nick=Philip N. Walter|appt=28 July, 1938<ref>Walter Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/121/136.|D7616486}} f. ?.</ref>|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Waldemar William Powell Shirley-Rollison|nick=Waldemar W. P. Shirley-Rollison|appt=1 September, 1936<ref>Shirley-Rollison Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/186.|}} f. 185.</ref>{{NLJul37|p. 239}}|end=28 July, 1938<ref>Shirley-Rollison Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/124/186.|}} f. 185.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Philip Norman Walter|nick=Philip N. Walter|appt=28 July, 1938<ref>Walter Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/121/136.|D7616486}} f. ?.</ref>|end=6 July, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Cecil Athos Newcome Chatwin|nick=Cecil A. N. Chatwin|appt=6 July, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}|end=late 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Ralph Heathcote|nick=Ralph Heathcote|appt=10 August, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}|end=14 July, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Robert Alexander Currie|nick=Robert A. Currie|appt=14 July, 1943{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}|end=April, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=John Anthony Luther|nick=John A. Luther|appt=April, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}|end=12 June, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Acting {{LCommRN}}|name=Roland Lindsay Boddy|nick=Roland L. Boddy|appt=12 June, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}|end=11 September, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=John Grant|nick=John Grant|appt=11 September, 1945{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}|end=31 October, 1946{{UBAllyWarship|4384}}}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>


==See Also==
==See Also==
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Fame_(H78)}}
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Latest revision as of 21:22, 14 January 2022

H.M.S. Fame (1934)
Pendant Number: H78
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Tyne
Launched: 26 Jun, 1934[1]
Transferred: 1949[2]
Fate: to Dominican Republic

H.M.S. Fame was one of eighteen "E" and "F" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Lady Pound, the wife of Second Sea Lord, Vice-Admiral Sir Dudley Pound performed the naming ceremony for Fame at her launching on 28 June, 1934. Two sisters were launched the same day: Firedrake and Forester.[3]

Fame was re-commissioned at Plymouth on 29 April, 1935 for service in the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.[4]

She was re-commissioned at Devonport on 3 March, 1936 for service in the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.[5]

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. ↑ "Destroyer Launches." The Times (London, England), 28 June 1934, p. 9.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 240.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 239.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 240.
  7. ↑ Haes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/121/98. f. 98.
  8. ↑ Shirley-Rollison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/186. f. 185.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 239.
  10. ↑ Shirley-Rollison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/124/186. f. 185.
  11. ↑ Walter Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/121/136. f. ?.
  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.
  17. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  18. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  19. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  20. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  21. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  22. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  23. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  24. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.


"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  
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