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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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Latest revision as of 19:34, 6 April 2018

H.M.S. Fortune (1913)
Pendant Number: H.30 (1914)[1]
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company[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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