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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Esk''''' was one of eighteen [["E" and "F" Class Destroyer (1934)|"E" and "F" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Esk''''' was one of eighteen [["E" and "F" Class Destroyer (1934)|"E" and "F" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].


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==Captains==
==Captains==
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Esk''" nat=UK>
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Roger Prideaux Selby|nick=Roger P. Selby|appt=1935<ref>Selby Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/117/21.|D7615819}} f. ?.</ref>|end=|note=|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Stanley Napier Blackburn|nick=Stanley N. Blackburn|appt=c. April, 1935{{NavAppts|4 Mar. 1935, p. 21}}|end=|note=possibly later cancelled}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Eames Wilson|nick=William E. Wilson|appt=30 April, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 238}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Eames Wilson|nick=William E. Wilson|appt=30 April, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 238}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Geoffrey Hendley Peters|nick=Geoffrey H. Peters|appt=3 March, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 237}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Geoffrey Hendley Peters|nick=Geoffrey H. Peters|appt=3 March, 1937{{NLJul37|p. 237}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Richard John Hollis Couch|nick=Richard J. H. Couch|appt=14 February, 1938{{UBAllyWarship|4381}}|end=1 September, 1940{{UBAllyWarship|4381}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=killed when ship lost under his command}}
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==See Also==
==See Also==
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Latest revision as of 15:19, 12 July 2021

H.M.S. Esk (1934)
Pendant Number: H15
Builder: Swan Hunter
Launched: 19 Mar, 1934[1]
Sunk: 31 Aug, 1940[2]

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

Service

In 1937, she was assigned to 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. 237.
  4. ↑ Selby Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/21. f. ?.
  5. ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 4 Mar. 1935, p. 21.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 238.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 237.
  8. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
  9. ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.


"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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