HMS Kingfisher (L70) (later K70) was a Royal Navy patrol vessel and the lead ship of the Kingfisher-class sloops, laid down in 1934 and commissioned in...
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1907. HMS Kingfisher was to have been a river gunboat. She was ordered in 1912, but was subsequently cancelled. HMS Kingfisher (L70) was a Kingfisher-class...
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give the gun crews a measure of protection on the exposed fo'c'sle. Kingfisher (L70) — built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan....
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generally displayed on the ship's hull, though not on destroyer leaders such as HMS Montrose pennant D1. In May–June 1940 the Royal Navy was in the process of...
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