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Revision as of 13:12, 24 December 2018

H.M.S. Express (1934)
Builder: Swan Hunter
Launched: 29 May, 1934[1]
Commissioned: 2 Nov, 1934
Broken up: 1956[2]

H.M.S. Express was one of eighteen "E" and "F" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 30 April, 1935 for service in the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet.[3]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 239.
  4. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), October 27, 1934, Issue 46896, p.7.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 239.


"E" and "F" Class Destroyer
"E" Class Leader
  Exmouth  
Destroyers
  Echo Eclipse Electra Encounter  
  Escapade Escort Esk Express  
"F" Class Leader
  Faulknor  
Destroyers
  Fame Fearless Firedrake Forester  
  Foresight Fortune Foxhound Fury  
<– "C" and "D" Class Destroyers (UK) "G", "H" and "I" Class –>


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