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HMS Escort |
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HMS Escort Laid Down : 30th March 1933 Launched : 29th March 1934 Completed : 30th October 1934 Type : Destroyer Class : E Builder : Scotts Country : UK Pennants : H66 Fate : Foundered 11th July 1940. |
| Damaged by torpedo from Italian submarine Marconi three days before foundering. |
HMS Escort Photos for Sale |
  HMS Escort, July 1935. |
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30th March 1933 - Laid down at Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland) 25th March 1934 - Arrived Sheerness 29th March 1934 - Launched 29th March 1934 - Pennant H66 2nd November 1934 - Arrived Sheerness 6th November 1934 - Commissioned at Chatham 6th November 1934 - Cdr. C.B. Turner Assumed Comand 6th November 1934 - Commissioned 15th November 1934 - Sailed Portland 8th December 1934 - Completed exercises at Portland 8th December 1934 - Arrived Chatham 15th January 1935 - Arrived Gibraltar 18th January 1935 - Arrived Arosa Bay 20th January 1935 - Sailed Arosa Bay for the West Indies 16th July 1935 - Attended 1935 Spithead Fleet Review 12th September 1936 - Arrived Bilbao 27th September 1936 - Sailed Plencia 27th September 1936 - Sailed Plencia 10th October 1936 - Arrived St. Jean de Luz 25th October 1936 - Sailed Bilbao for St. Jean de Luz 28th April 1937 - Arrived Portland 22nd May 1937 - Arrived Portland 5th June 1937 - Arrived Portsmouth 30th June 1937 - Arrived St. Helier 16th July 1937 - Arrived Portland 20th July 1937 - Sailed Portsmouth for Stranraer 22nd July 1937 - Arrived Stranraer 8th October 1937 - Arrived Portland 22nd October 1937 - Arrived St. Jean le Luz January 1938 - 5th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet 12th March 1938 - Arrived Gibraltar 30th March 1938 - Arrived Sheerness 19th July 1938 - Escorted The King and Queen from Dover to France 24th January 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 31st July 1939 - Lt.Cdr. John Bostock, RN In Command 14th August 1939 - Sailed Sheerness for Rosyth 2nd September 1939 - Sailed Portland 3rd September 1939 - 12th Destroyer Flotilla, Division 24, Western Approaches Command 2nd October 1939 - Sailed the Loire escorting Convoy BC.65 3rd October 1939 - Arrived in Bristol Channel with Convoy BC.65 13th October 1939 - Sailed Dover 13th October 1939 - Sailed Southend escorting Convoy OA.19 17th October 1939 - Attacked U-Boat whils escorting Convoy HG.3 off Cape Trafalgar 17th October 1939 - Joined Convoy HG.3 17th October 1939 - Detached from Convoy OA.19 18th October 1939 - Joined Convoy HG.3 18th October 1939 - Escorted Steamer Sagaing from area 18th October 1939 - Joined Convoy HG.3 19th October 1939 - Detached Convoy HG.3 23rd October 1939 - Sailed Southend escorting Convoy OA.24G 26th October 1939 - Escorting Convoy OG.4 1st November 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 12th November 1939 - Sailed Southend escorting Convoy OA.34 14th November 1939 - Detached Convoy OA.34 21st November 1939 - Searched for a submarine one mile 180° from Rame Head 25th November 1939 - Attacked a submarine contact SW of Land's End in 49.17N, 07.14W 28th November 1939 - Sailed Southend escorting Concoy OA.43 30th November 1939 - Detached from Convoy OA.43 5th December 1939 - Sailed Portsmouth 6th December 1939 - Sailed Belfast 8th December 1939 - Detached from Force W and searched 85 miles NW of Cape Wrath. For U.43 9th December 1939 - Arrived Rosyth 10th December 1939 - Sailed Rosyth to relieve escorts with Convoy HN.4 11th December 1939 - Sailed Rosyth for Loch Ewe 11th December 1939 - Sailed Rosyth escorting German merchant ship Ilsenstein for Loch Ewe 12th December 1939 - Arrived Methil with Convoy HN.4 15th December 1939 - Searched Submarine contact off Buchanness 15th December 1939 - Arrived Loch Ewe 16th December 1939 - Attacked contact off Buchan Ness in 57-26N, 1-45W 16th December 1939 - Attacked Contact in 57-26N, 01-45W 18th December 1939 - Arrived Rosyth 23rd December 1939 - Arrived at Dundee from Scapa Flow, en route to Rosyth 30th December 1939 - Sailed Rosyth escorting base ship Manchester CityY and steamer Astronomer to Scapa Flow 2nd January 1940 - Arrived at Invergordan 2nd January 1940 - Sailed Invergordon with tanker Beaconstreet for Liverpool 3rd January 1940 - Sailed Liverpool for Plymouth and refit 9th January 1940 - With defects proceeded to Falmouth for repairs 25th January 1940 - Sailed the Tyne escorting convoy FS.81. 25th January 1940 - Sailed the Tyne escorting convoy FS.81. 27th January 1940 - Arrived Southend with Convoy FS.81 31st January 1940 - At Falmouth under repair 12th February 1940 - Exercised off Harwich. 17th February 1940 - Sailed Methil Escorting Convoy ON.14 20th February 1940 - Sailed Kirkwall escorting Convoy ON.14 22nd February 1940 - Sailed Bergen escorting Convoy HN.14 22nd February 1940 - Arrived Bergen with Convoy ON.14 22nd February 1940 - Arrived Bergen with Convoy ON.14 24th February 1940 - Sailed Bergen escorting Convoy HN.14 25th February 1940 - Sank U 63 SE of the Orkney 28th February 1940 - Sailed Methil escorting Convoy ON.16 2nd March 1940 - Sailed Bergen escorting Convoy HN.16 2nd March 1940 - Arrived Bergen with Convoy ON.16 5th March 1940 - Arrived Methil with Convoy HN.16 7th March 1940 - Sailed Methil escorting Convoy ON.18 10th March 1940 - Arrived Bergen with Convoy ON.18 10th March 1940 - Sailed Bergen escorting Convoy HN.18 13th March 1940 - Arrived Methil with the east coast section of Convoy HN.18 15th March 1940 - Sailed Methil escorting Convoy ON.20 18th March 1940 - Arrived Methil with Convoy HN.20 18th March 1940 - Arrived Bergen 18th March 1940 - Sailed Bergen escorting Convoy HN.20 1st April 1940 - 12th Destroyer Flotilla, 23rd Division 1st April 1940 - Lt. Cdr. J. Bostock in Command 1st April 1940 - Repairing at Rosyth 11th July 1940 - Sunk | |||
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