E and F-class destroyer
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The E- and F-class destroyers were a group of 18 destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. The ships were initially assigned to the Home Fleet, although they reinforced the Mediterranean F
Encounter moving slowly, July 1938
Foxhound's forward guns, August 1943
Eclipse at anchor before 1943
Exmouth leaving Bilbao, 22 October 1936
HMS Electra (H27)
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HMS Electra was one of nine E-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea, Electra was a witness to many naval battles, including the Battle of the D
E and F-class destroyer
…Greece as Navarinon in 1944; returned to RN in 1956 and scrapped Eclipse 22 March 1933 12 April 1934 29 November 1934 Sunk by a mine, 24 October 1943 Electra Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn 15 March 1933 15 February 1934 13 September 1934 Sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea, 27 February 1942 Encounter 29…
HMS Electra before the war wearing the single white stripe of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla