HMS Forester

HMS Forester was one of nine F-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the early 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion, the ship was attached to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1935–36 during the Abyssinia Crisis. A few weeks after the start of World War II in September 1939, she helped to sink one German submarine and then participated in the Second Battle of Narvik during the Norwegian Campaign of 1940. Forester was sent to Gibraltar in mid-1940 and formed part of Force H where she participated in the attack on the Vichy French ships at Mers-el-Kébir and the Battle of Dakar between escorting the aircraft carriers of Force H as they flew off aircraft for Malta and covering convoys resupplying and reinforcing the island until late 1941. During this time the ship helped to sink another German submarine.

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1935  Wikidata
H74
speed 36 knot, draft 3.81 metre, length 100.28 metre, beam 10.13 metre, 4 cannon, 
F-class destroyer, destroyer, J. Samuel White, Royal Navy, United Kingdom, 

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1935-03-29T00:00:00Z

1935-03-29T00:00:00Z

1935 HMS Forester

1945-09-01T00:00:00Z

1945-09-01T00:00:00Z

ship decommissioning

1934-06-28T00:00:00Z

1934-06-28T00:00:00Z

ship launching

1935-03-29T00:00:00Z

1935-03-29T00:00:00Z

ship commissioning

1939-09-03T00:00:00Z

1939-09-03T00:00:00Z

Battle of the Atlantic

1940-04-09T00:00:00Z

1940-04-09T00:00:00Z

Norwegian Campaign

1935-04-19T00:00:00Z

1935-04-19T00:00:00Z

ship completed

1933-05-15T00:00:00Z

1933-05-15T00:00:00Z

keel laying

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Frameless

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