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HMS Exmoor |
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HMS Exmoor Laid Down : 7th June 1940 Launched : 12th March 1941 Completed : 18th October 1940 Type : Destroyer Class : Hunt Builder : Swan Hunter Country : UK Pennants : L08 Fate : Laid down as HMS Burton and renamed Exmoor in June 1941, following the loss (in February 1941)of the previous ship of that name. To Denmark (Valdemar Sejr), sold for breaking up in 1966. Later became : Valdemar Sejr |
| Adopted by Minehead, Somerset following Warship Week in 1942. In Reserve at Portsmouth from 1945 until her sale to Denmark. |
HMS Exmoor Photos for Sale |
  HMS Exmoor, 1944. |
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8th June 1939 - Laid down at Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.): Parsons 25th January 1940 - Pennant L61 25th January 1940 - Launched 25th January 1940 - Pennant L61 25th January 1940 - Launched 5th June 1940 - Lt.Cdr. Robert Tindle Lampard, RN Assumed Command 7th June 1940 - Laid down at Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend 18th October 1940 - Commissioned 25th February 1941 - Lost 25th February 1941 - Sunk. Torpedoed by German Torpedo Boats off Lowestoft 25th February 1941 - Lt.Cdr. Robert Tindle Lampard, RN Ceased Command 12th March 1941 - Launched 12th March 1941 - Pennant L08 12th March 1941 - Pennant L08 12th March 1941 - Launched June 1941 - Lt.Cdr. Lawrence St George Rich, RN Assumed Command 18th October 1941 - Commissioned 17th November 1942 - Arrived as escort for passage to Malta February 1943 - Lt. Donald Terry McBarnet, RN Assumed Command February 1943 - Lt.Cdr. Lawrence St George Rich, RN Relinquished Command 5th November 1943 - Lt. Donald Terry McBarnet, RN Relinquished Command 5th November 1943 - Cdr. John Jefferis, RN Assumed Command February 1944 - Cdr. John Jefferis, RN Relinquished Command February 1944 - Lt. Donald Douglas Howson, RN Assumed Command January 1945 - Lt. Donald Douglas Howson, RN Relinquished Command January 1945 - Cdr. John Holmes, RN Assumed Command 9th July 1945 - Cdr. John Holmes, RN Relinquished Command 9th July 1945 - Cdr. Bertram Wilfrid Taylor, DSC, RN Assumed Command October 1945 - Cdr. Bertram Wilfrid Taylor, DSC, RN Relinquished Command 1953 - Transferred to Denmark | |||
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