HMS Forester (H74)
(For other ships with the same name, see HMS Forester.) HMS Forester was one of nine F-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during 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. A few weeks after the start of World War II in September 1939, she helped to sink one German submarine and then participated in the Second Battle of Narvik during the Norwegian Campaign of 1940. Forester was sent to Gibraltar in mid-1940 and formed part of Force H where she participated in the attack on the Vichy French ships at Mers-el-Kébir and the Battle of Dakar between escorting the aircraft carriers of Force H as they flew off aircraft for Malta and covering convoys resupplying and reinforcing
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HMS Forester (H74)
(For other ships with the same name, see HMS Forester.) HMS Forester was one of nine F-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during 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. A few weeks after the start of World War II in September 1939, she helped to sink one German submarine and then participated in the Second Battle of Narvik during the Norwegian Campaign of 1940. Forester was sent to Gibraltar in mid-1940 and formed part of Force H where she participated in the attack on the Vichy French ships at Mers-el-Kébir and the Battle of Dakar between escorting the aircraft carriers of Force H as they flew off aircraft for Malta and covering convoys resupplying and reinforcing
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HMS Forester (H74) war ein Zer ...... olgenden Jahr dann abgewrackt.
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La HMS Forester (Pennant numbe ...... 29 marzo dell'anno successivo.
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1935-03-29
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1935-04-19
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1933-05-15
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1.002792e+2
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ship beam (μ)
1.00584e+1
ship launched
1934-06-28
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Sold forscrap, January 1946
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722,216,177
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*4 × single QF 4.7-inch (120 m ...... charges, 1 rack and 2 throwers
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Ship country
United Kingdom
Ship decommissioned
September 1945
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Ship identification
Pennant number: H74
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HMS Forester (H74) war ein Zer ...... olgenden Jahr dann abgewrackt.
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