| Shakespeare
Class Flotilla Leaders. Photographs and history of the Shakespeare
class flotilla leaders, including HMS Shakespeare, HMS Spenser, HMS
Wallace, HMS Keppel and HMS Rooke. History of the Shakespeare
Class Flotilla leaders launched 1917 - 1920
Displacement : 1554t Speed
36kts Complement : 183 Armament :
Five 4.7in. BL MkI, One 3in AA, Two 2pdr pom poms, Six 21in. TT
HMS Keppel, HMS Wallace and HMS
Broke (ex - Rooke) had the following specifications during World War Two
: Displacement : 1480t, Speed : 36½kts, Complement : 164,
Armament : Two 4.7in. One 3in. AA Broke 2/ Keppel
4 20mm AA guns; Six 21in TT; One ATW except Wallace Four 4in. AA,
Four 2pdr AA, Two 20mm AA, Eight 5in. AA guns.
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| HMS Shakespeare |
7th July 1917 |
Sold for scrapping in 1936. |
| HMS Spenser |
22nd September 1917 |
Sold for scrapping in 1936. |
| HMS Wallace (L.64) |
26th October 1918 |
Sold for scrapping in March 1945. |
| HMS Keppel (D.84) |
23rd April 1920. |
Sold for scrapping in July 1945. |
| HMS Rooke (HMS
Broke) |
16th September 1920 |
Renamed HMS Broke in April 1921. Sunk on
8th November 1942. |
| HMS
Shakespeare |
HMS Shakespeare.
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HMS Shakespeare, 1917.
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HMS Shakespeare pictured c.1930.
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HMS Shakespeare.
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HMS Shakespeare.
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| HMS
Spenser |
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| HMS
Wallace |
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HMS Wallace, 1935.
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HMS Wallace, 1935.
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| HMS
Keppel |
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HMS Keppel with Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert, 1939.
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HMS Rooke |
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HMS Broke (ex - HMS Rooke).
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HMS Broke, July 1935.
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