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    HMS Faulknor was the flotilla leader for the F-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. The ship had a particularly active operational...
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    appointed Rear Admiral John Campbell (1st Captain) and Captain Jonathan Faulknor (2nd Captain). Keppel put to sea from Spithead on 9 July 1778 with a force...
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    HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that was operated during the Second World War. Designed in 1934 to fit the...
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    Codrington (1930) Keith (1931) Kempenfelt (1932) Duncan (1933) Exmouth (1934) Faulknor (1935) Grenville (1936) Hardy (1936) Inglefield (1937) Capitani Romani-class...
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    HMS Fearless was an F-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion, the ship was attached...
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    to be scuttled on 15 May. Faulknor, Fury, Escapade, Echo, and Eclipse escorted more Arctic convoys in May–September, Faulknor sinking U-88 on 12 September...
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    the battlecruiser Renown, the light cruiser Despatch, and the destroyers Faulknor, Firedrake, Forester, Fury, Kelvin, and Jaguar – covering a convoy and...
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    ISBN 1-59114-119-2. Smith, Peter C. (2004). Destroyer Leader: The Story of HMS Faulknor 1935–46 (3rd revised and expanded ed.). Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK:...
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    HMS Fury was an F-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion, the ship was attached to...
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    ISBN 1-59114-119-2. Smith, Peter C. (2004). Destroyer Leader: The Story of HMS Faulknor 1935–46 (3rd revised and expanded ed.). Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK:...
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    ISBN 1-59114-119-2. Smith, Peter C. (2004). Destroyer Leader: The Story of HMS Faulknor 1935–46 (3rd revised and expanded ed.). Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK:...
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    ISBN 1-59114-119-2. Smith, Peter C. (2004). Destroyer Leader: The Story of HMS Faulknor 1935–46 (3rd revised and expanded ed.). Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK:...
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    HMS Foresight was one of nine F-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. She was assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion. Unlike...
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    Ostend: HMS Swift (destroyer leader), HMS Faulknor (Faulknor-class flotilla leader), HMS Matchless, HMS Mastiff (Thornycroft M-class destroyers) and HMS Afridi...
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  • primary source diary and supporting material by Jack Bowman, ERA aboard HMS La Malouine. PQ 17 at Convoyweb Helgason, Gudmundur. "PQ-17 The Greatest...
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    posted to the destroyer HMS Faulknor. Tovey received his first command on 13 January 1915, when he was appointed to the destroyer HMS Jackal, which as part...
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    convoy was defended by escort ships and the aircraft of the escort carrier HMS Avenger which used signals intelligence gleaned from Ultra and Luftwaffe...
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    Faulknor'. London: Kimber. — HMS Faulknor —————— (1976). Fighting flotilla: HMS Laforey and her sister ships. London: Kimber. — HMS Laforey; L-class destroyers...
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    1934 scrapped 1947 Faulknor  Royal Navy F Destroyer flotilla leader 1,475 24 May 1935 paid off 25 July 1945 Fearless Destroyer 1,428 19 December 1934...
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    483 The Cambridge Modern History, pp. 6:379-380 Contenson (1934), p. 159. Contenson (1934), p. 235. Chartrand, René (July 2006). Gibraltar 1779–1783:...
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    children's TV presenter, had a holiday cottage here in the early 1980s George Faulknor Francis Horwood (1838–1897), Deputy Lieutenant of Orkney (and youngest...
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    Spithead in company with the frigate Venus, commanded by Captain Jonathan Faulknor. After chasing some French vessels into Cherbourg, the two frigates lost...
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    'Q' position, between the funnels and were based on the F-class leader, Faulknor. Grenville was shorter and heavier than Hardy as she used compact Yarrow-type...
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  • U-39 14 September 1939 A Type IXA U-boat that was sunk by HMS Faulknor, HMS Firedrake, and HMS Foxhound, becoming the first U-boat to be sunk in World War...
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    1798 June 1795 Sir Richard King, 1st Baronet 1730 1806 June 1795 Jonathan Faulknor the elder 1795 died in the month of his promotion June 1795 Philip Affleck...
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