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Revision as of 21:04, 29 September 2014

H.M.S. Fortune (1913)
Pendant Number: H.30 (1914)[1]
Builder: Fairfield[2]
Launched: 17 Mar, 1913[3]
Completed: Dec, 1913[4]
Sunk: 31 May, 1916[5]
Fate: at Battle of Jutland

H.M.S. Fortune was one of twenty destroyers of the Acasta class.

Service

At the Battle of Jutland, she operated with the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla and was sunk in night action under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Frank G. Terry.[6]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 63.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 307.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  6. ↑ Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. pp. 34, 44.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 320.

Bibliography


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