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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Exmouth''''' was one of eighteen [["E" and "F" Class Destroyer (1934)|"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.
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Exmouth''''' was one of eighteen [["E" and "F" Class Destroyer (1934)|"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==
==Service==
Lt. Cdr. [[Arthur Grey Skipwith]] was appointed to the ship to oversee her completion on 23 May, 1934.{{NLJul34|p. 240}}
Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 30 April, 1935 for service as flagship of the {{UK-DF|5}} of the [[Home Fleet]].{{NLJul37|p. 239}}
''Exmouth'' was torpedoed north of Scotland in January, 1940.  No one from her crew survived.


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Lumley St. George Lyster|nick=Arthur L. St. G. Lyster|appt=|end=30 April, 1935|precBy=New Command|note=and as Captain (D), {{UK-DF|5}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Arthur Lumley St. George Lyster|nick=Arthur L. St. G. Lyster|appt=c. September, 1934{{NavAppts|Friday, August 31, 1934, Issue 46847, p.5}}|end=30 April, 1935|precBy=New Command|note=and as Captain (D), {{UK-DF|5}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Harold Martin Burrough|nick=Harold M. Burrough|appt=30 April, 1935|end=mid 1937|note=and as Captain (D), {{UK-DF|5}}}}
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Harold Martin Burrough|nick=Harold M. Burrough|appt=30 April, 1935|end=mid 1937|note=and as Captain (D), {{UK-DF|5}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan|nick=Llewellyn V. Morgan|appt=16 June, 1937|end=25 May, 1939|note=and as Captain (D), {{UK-DF|5}} and then {{UK-DF|7}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan|nick=Llewellyn V. Morgan|appt=16 June, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 239}}|end=25 May, 1939|note=and as Captain (D), {{UK-DF|5}} and then {{UK-DF|7}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Richard Stoddart Benson|nick=Richard S. Benson|appt=31 July, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|4201}}|end=21 January, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4201}}|note=killed when ship lost|succBy=Vessel Lost}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>


==See Also==
==See Also==
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Exmouth_(H02)}}
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Latest revision as of 23:07, 18 October 2021

H.M.S. Exmouth (1934)
Pendant Number: H02
Builder: Portsmouth Royal Dockyard
Launched: 7 Feb, 1934
Sunk: 21 Jan, 1940[1]

H.M.S. Exmouth 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

Lt. Cdr. Arthur Grey Skipwith was appointed to the ship to oversee her completion on 23 May, 1934.[2]

Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 30 April, 1935 for service as flagship of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.[3]

Exmouth was torpedoed north of Scotland in January, 1940. No one from her crew survived.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 39.
  2. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 240.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 239.
  4. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Friday, August 31, 1934, Issue 46847, p.5.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 239.
  6. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  7. ↑ 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  
<– "C" and "D" Class Destroyers (UK) "G", "H" and "I" Class –>


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