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HMS Fury Laid Down : 19th May 1933 Launched : 10th September 1934 Completed : 18th May 1935 Type : Destroyer Class : F Builder : White Country : UK Pennants : H76 Fate : Scrapped 18th September 1944. |
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| Hit a mine off the beachhead and driven ashore in a gale while supporting the D Day landings, on 21st June 1944, and was considered a Constructive Total Loss. |
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  HMS Fury, July 1935. |
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10th September 1934 - Launched 10th September 1934 - Pennant H76 11th February 1935 - 6th Destroyer Flotilla 11th February 1936 - Sailed Gibraltar 7th March 1936 - Sailed UK for Malta 2nd April 1936 - 6th Destroyer Flotilla 20th July 1936 - Arrived Portsmouth 10th October 1936 - Arrived Rosyth 19th April 1937 - Arrived La Rochelle 29th June 1937 - Arrived Cardiff 23rd July 1937 - Arrived Portsmouth 23rd October 1937 - Arrived Gibraltar 31st December 1937 - Cdr. Geoffrey Frederic Burghard, RN In Command January 1938 - 6th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet 29th March 1938 - Arrived Portsmouth 19th February 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 27th February 1939 - Sailed Gibraltar 27th February 1939 - Combined Exercise 3rd March 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 6th March 1939 - Sailed Gibraltar 6th March 1939 - Combined Exercise 10th March 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 18th March 1939 - Sailed Gibraltar 23rd March 1939 - Arrived Home Ports 27th July 1939 - Sailed Portsmouth August 1939 - 8th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet 15th August 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow for exercises 21st August 1939 - Arrived Invergordon 25th August 1939 - Arrived Scapa Flow 31st August 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow. Deployed in the North Sea between the Orkneys and Norway. 3rd September 1939 - 8th Destroyer Flotilla, Division 15, Home Fleet, Scapa Flow 6th September 1939 - Arrived Scapa Flow 8th October 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow 11th October 1939 - Arrive Loch Ewe 12th October 1939 - Submarine hunting off the Hebrides 15th October 1939 - Sailed Loch Ewe 23rd October 1939 - Sailed Scapa Flow 25th October 1939 - Damaged by heavy weather, and repaired in the Clyde 31st October 1939 - At Clyde with defects 15th November 1939 - Completed repairs in the Clyde 16th November 1939 - Sailed Clyde escorting Base Ship Mashoba 17th November 1939 - Detached from Mashoba. Proceeded to Loch Ewe 17th November 1939 - Completed damage repairs on the Clyde 19th November 1939 - Sailed Loch Ewe to hunt for a U-boat 21st November 1939 - Arrived in the Clyde from Loch Ewe 23rd November 1939 - Sailed the Clyde for a position off the Norwegian coast 24th November 1939 - At Sea 1st December 1939 - North of the Faroes to cover AMCs returning to Northern Patrol 1st December 1939 - Arrived Rosyth 4th December 1939 - Arrived Loch Ewe en route to the Clyde 24th December 1939 - Sailed Loch Ewe for the Clyde 25th December 1939 - Sailed Greenock 28th December 1939 - Joined Convoy TC 29th December 1939 - Arrived in the Clyde 2nd January 1940 - Investigated a reported a submarine contact in 59-13N, 3-59W 3rd January 1940 - Submarine investigation called off 10th January 1940 - Sailed the Clyde to escort HMS Canton 13th January 1940 - Arrived in the Clyde 14th January 1940 - Sailed Greenock on patrol 17th January 1940 - Arrived at Scapa Flow 18th January 1940 - 8th Destroyer Flotilla 18th January 1940 - Sailed Scapa Flow 20th January 1940 - Arrived at Sullom Voe to refuel. 24th January 1940 - Arrived in the Clyde from patrol. 24th January 1940 - Arrived Scapa Flow 2nd February 1940 - Sailed Greenock for an anti-submarine sweep towards the Mull of Kintyre 7th February 1940 - Arrived in the Clyde 8th February 1940 - Sailed The Clyde on patrol 13th February 1940 - Refuelled at Sullom Voe and returned to Battle Group 15th February 1940 - At sea near Pentland Firth covering Operation DT 19th February 1940 - Sailed the Clyde 27th February 1940 - Escorted HMS Malaya and HMS Ascania from the Clyde 2nd March 1940 - Sailed to patrol off Pladda Island 6th March 1940 - Attacked a submarine contact southwest of Chicken Rock, I.O.M 6th March 1940 - Sailed the Clyde for Milford Haven to discharge fuel prior to arriving at Newport for refitting 7th March 1940 - Attacked another submarine contact in 53-48N, 5-06W 9th March 1940 - Arrived Milford Haven 12th March 1940 - Sailed the Clyde for Scapa Flow 1st April 1940 - 8th Destroyer Flotilla, 15th Division 1st April 1940 - Cdr. G.F. Burghard in Command 1st April 1940 - Repairing at Newport 6th July 1940 - Lt.Cdr. Terence Corin Robinson, RN In Command 27th November 1940 - Force H 27th November 1940 - Battle Of Cape Spartivento, Sardinia 13th January 1942 - Lt.Cdr. Colin Henry Campbell, DSC, RN In Command 1st March 1942 - Escort for Russian Convoy PQ.12 and return QP.08 to Iceland 20th March 1942 - Lt. Cdr. C.H. Campbell in Command 10th August 1943 - Lt.Cdr. Thomas Frederick Taylor, RN In Command 7th October 1943 - Attacked a German convoy, north of Astipalea (Stampalia) in the Dodecanese 6th June 1944 - Participated in the Normandy Landings 21st June 1944 - Constructive loss September 1944 - Scrapped at Briton ferry | |||
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