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HMS Exeter was the second and last York-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the Mediterranean Fleet during the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935–1936, she spent the bulk of the 1930s assigned to the Atlantic Fleet or the North America and West Indies Station.
HMS Exeter (1763) was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1763. She was burned as unseaworthy in 1784. HMS Exeter (68) was a York-class heavy cruiser launched in 1929. She fought at the River Plate in 1939, and was sunk during the Second Battle of the Java Sea on 1 March 1942. HMS Exeter was planned as a Type 61 frigate. She was ordered in 1956 ...
HMS Exeter was a Type 42 destroyer, the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be named Exeter, after the city of Exeter in Devon. The vessel fought in the Falklands War and the first Gulf War , she was scrapped in 2011.
The captain, eight officers and 79 members of the crew were given the Freedom of the City of Exeter on 29 February 1940, and were welcomed by a crowd of 50,000 cheering residents. The crew marched through the streets with fixed bayonets, carrying HMS Exeter's shell-torn White Ensign through the streets. [8]
The wrecks of HMS Exeter and HMS Encounter were discovered by explorers – who had been looking for the wrecks for five years – in February 2007 only several miles apart, 90 miles (140 km) north-west of Bawean Island, 60 miles (97 km) from Exeter's captain's (Oliver Gordon) estimated sinking position, at a depth of approximately 60 m (200 ft ...
Captain Oliver Loudon Gordon MVO RN (26 Jan 1896 – 30 Jan 1973) [1] was in command of the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter from 11 March 1941 [2] until she was sunk in the Second Battle of the Java Sea on 1 March 1942. [3] He later wrote of his experiences both in command of the Exeter and as a prisoner of war in Japan in the book Fight It Out ...
HMS Glasgow - hit by unexploded bomb from a Douglas A-4B Skyhawk 12 May, withdrawn from war - Moderate Damage. Captain A.P. Hoddinott; HMS Cardiff. Captain M.G.T. Harris; HMS Exeter. Captain H.M. Balfour; County-class destroyers. HMS Glamorgan - hit by an Aérospatiale MM38 Exocet (surface-to-surface) anti-ship missile on 12 June (†14 ...
On February 24, De Ruyter departed as flagship for Admiral Doorman and his flag captain Eugène Lacomblé (who had previously served on board the ship as a lieutenant) for much of what was left of the ABDA fleet, consisting of three light cruisers, De Ruyter, Java and HMAS Perth, the heavy cruisers Houston and HMS Exeter, and nine destroyers ...