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==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Gerald Douglas Yates|nick=Gerald D. Yates|appt=31 October, 1931|end=|note=temporary}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Gerald Douglas Yates|nick=Gerald D. Yates|appt=31 October, 1931|end=|note=temporary}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Philip Weyland Bowyer-Smyth|nick=Sir Philip W. Bowyer-Smyth|appt=21 May, 1932{{NLJul34|p. 241}}|end=28 July, 1934}}
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Revision as of 13:09, 11 March 2020

H.M.S. Fowey (1930)
Builder: Devonport Royal Dockyard[1]
Launched: 4 Nov, 1930[2]
Sold: 1946[3]

H.M.S. Fowey was one of eight Shoreham Class sloops completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Fowey was launched in a private ceremony on 4 November 1930. The wife of Colonel E. Treffry of Place, Fowey, performed the naming ceremony.[4]

Fowey was re-commissioned at Colombo on 16 July, 1932.[5]

Re-commissioned on 1 November 1934 for service in the Persian Gulf.[6]

Re-commissioned on 17 November, 1936.[7]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 56.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 56.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 56.
  4. "Launch of the Fowey." The Times (London, England), 4 Nov. 1930, p. 7.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 239.
  6. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 241.
  7. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 240.
  8. "New Sloop Fowey." The Times (London, England), 29 Aug. 1931, p. 3.
  9. The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 241.
  10. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 241.
  11. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 240.
  12. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  13. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  14. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  15. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  16. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  17. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  18. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  19. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  20. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  21. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  22. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  23. Uboat.net page on the ship.


Shoreham Class Sloop
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