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HMS Egret Laid Down : 21st July 1937 Launched : 31st May 1938 Completed : 10th November 1938 Type : Sloop Class : Egret Builder : White Country : UK Pennants : L75, U75 Fate : Sunk 27th August 1943. |
| She was the first Allied warship to be sunk by a guided missile. |
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  HMS Egret, June 1943. |
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21st July 1937 - Laid down at J.S. White & Co. (Cowes, U.K.) 31st May 1938 - Pennant 75 31st May 1938 - Launched 10th November 1938 - Commissioned 9th January 1939 - Sailed Portsmouth 13th January 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 15th January 1939 - Sailed Gibraltar for Malta 18th January 1939 - Arrived Malta 22nd January 1939 - Sailed Malta for Port Said 22nd January 1939 - Sailed Malta for Port Said 25th January 1939 - Arrived Port Said 4th March 1939 - Arrived and Sailed Bal Haf for Mukatta 6th March 1939 - Sailed Mukalla 1st April 1939 - Sailed Siez for Aden 6th April 1939 - Arrived Aden 8th May 1939 - Sailed Aden for Djibouti 12th May 1939 - Arrived Kamaran 2nd June 1939 - Capt. John Campbell Annesley, DSO, RN Assumed Command Command 27th July 1939 - Arrived Ismailia 10th August 1939 - Sailed Aden and Joined Convoy "Heron 16th August 1939 - Arrived Aden 2nd September 1939 - Red Sea Division, East Indies Command, Colombo and Trincomalee 6th September 1939 - Sailed Aden for Mombasa 16th October 1939 - Shadowed German steamer 8th November 1939 - Sailed Durban 27th November 1939 - Arrived at Port Said from the Indian Ocean and departed for Malta, en route to England 7th December 1939 - Completed trefit at Malta 10th December 1939 - Arrived Gibraltar 11th December 1939 - Sailed Gibraltar 16th December 1939 - Arrived Freetown 19th December 1939 - Sailed Freetown escorting Convoy SLF.13 19th December 1939 - Sailed Freetown escorting Convoy SLF.13 2nd January 1940 - Detached from Convoy SLF.13 2nd January 1940 - Arrived Cardiff for duty with Convoy C 4th January 1940 - In collision with steamer Sea Valour. Was repaired at Cardiff in three weeks 19th January 1940 - Capt. John Campbell Annesley, DSO, RN Relinquished Command 19th January 1940 - Cdr. Dering Parker Evans, RN Assumed Command 27th January 1940 - Joined Convoy FN.81 28th January 1940 - Arrived on the Tyne with Convoy FN.81 1st February 1940 - Sailed Methil escorting Convoy FS.84 2nd February 1940 - A submarine contact was made Off Blea Wyke Point 3rd February 1940 - Arrived The Tyne with Convoy FS.84 7th February 1940 - Sailed Southend escorting Convoy FN.86 9th February 1940 - Sailed Methil escorting Convoy MT.6 9th February 1940 - Arrived on the Tyne with Convoy FN.86 10th February 1940 - Sailed th Tyne escorting Convoy FS.92 10th February 1940 - Arrived on the Tyne with Convoy MT.6 10th February 1940 - Attacked a Submarine contact NNW of St Abbs Head 13th February 1940 - Sailed Southend escorting Convoy FN.93 15th February 1940 - Arrived on the Tyne with Convoy FN.93 20th February 1940 - Attacked a submarine contact seven miles 290° from Flamborough Head 20th February 1940 - Sailed Rosyth escorting Convoy MT.15 21st February 1940 - Arrived Southend 24th February 1940 - Sailed Southend escorting Convoy FN.103 2nd March 1940 - Sailed the Tyne escorting Convoy FS.110 4th March 1940 - Arrived Southend with Convoy FS.110 5th March 1940 - Sailed Southend escorting Convoy FN.112 7th March 1940 - Sailed the Tyne escorting Convoy TM.21 7th March 1940 - Arrived in the Tyne with Convoy FN.112 9th March 1940 - Sailed the Tyne escorting Convoy FS.117 11th March 1940 - Arrived Southend with Convoy FS.117 12th March 1940 - Sailed Southend escorting Convoy FN.119 14th March 1940 - Investigated periscope sighting one mile southwest of Elie Ness 14th March 1940 - Arrived in the Tyne with Convoy FN.119 1st April 1940 - Rosyth Escort Force 1st April 1940 - Cdr. D.P. Evans in Command 1st April 1940 - Repairing at Rosyth 20th April 1940 - Cdr. Emile Frank Verlaine Dechaineux, RAN Assumed Command 20th April 1940 - Cdr. Dering Parker Evans, RN Relinquished Command 19th May 1940 - Cdr. Emile Frank Verlaine Dechaineux, RAN Relinquished Command 19th May 1940 - Cdr. Dering Parker Evans, RN Assumed Command 14th January 1941 - Cdr. Dering Parker Evans, RN Relinquished Command 14th January 1941 - Cdr. Edmund Mount Haes, RN Assumed Command 8th February 1942 - Cdr. Charles Robert Stanier Farquhar, RN Assumed Command 8th February 1942 - Cdr. Edmund Mount Haes, RN Relinquished Command June 1943 - Lt. George Henry Cook, RN Assumed Command June 1943 - Cdr. Charles Robert Stanier Farquhar, RN Relinquished Command August 1943 - Lt. George Henry Cook, RN Relinquished Command August 1943 - Lt.Cdr. John Valentine Waterhouse, DSO, RN Assumed Command 27th August 1943 - Sunk on by an Hs293 guided bomb. 27th August 1943 - Lt.Cdr. John Valentine Waterhouse, DSO, RN Relinquished Command | |||
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