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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.
Pages in category "World War II cruisers of the United Kingdom" ... HMS Euryalus (42) HMS Exeter (68) F. HMS Fiji (58) HMS Forfar (F30) HMS Frobisher (D81) G.
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 Coventry - sunk on 25 May by three bombs from a Douglas A-4B Skyhawk (†19+1) - Fatal Damage. Captain D. Hart Dyke; HMS Glasgow - hit by unexploded bomb from a Douglas A-4B Skyhawk 12 May, withdrawn from war - Moderate Damage.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
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 ...
The crew marched through the streets with fixed bayonets, carrying HMS Exeter's shell-torn White Ensign through the streets. [8] Bell was replaced as captain of Exeter on 12 April 1940 and the following year became Flag Captain to the Flag Officer, Malaya , escaping the Fall of Singapore the following year and becoming captain of HMS Anson in ...
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.
John Gregson, actor, conscripted to serve on minesweepers in the Royal Navy during World War II. Used this experience playing the Captain of HMS Exeter, in the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate. Alec Guinness, actor, served during World War II, initially as a rating, but later commissioned in 1941. He commanded a landing craft taking part ...