HMS Exmouth (H02)

	HMS Exmouth leaving the port of Bilbao, Basque Country, 1936.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Exmouth
Ordered	1 November 1932
Builder	Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down	15 March 1933
Launched	30 January 1934
Commissioned	9 November 1934
Motto	Deo Adjuvante; ("By God’s help");
Honours and; awards	Atlantic 1939
Fate	Sunk by German submarine U-22, 21 January 1940
Badge	On a Field Red, a lion passant Gold
General characteristics
Class and type	E-class destroyer flotilla leader
Displacement	1,495 long tons (1,519 t) (standard); 2,050 long tons (2,080 t) (deep load);
Length	343 ft (104.5 m) o/a
Beam	33 ft 9 in (10.3 m)
Draught	12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Installed power	38,000 shp (28,000 kW); 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers;
Propulsion	2 × shafts, 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	175
Sensors and ; processing systems	ASDIC
Armament	5 × single QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mark IX guns; 2 × quadruple QF 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) Vickers Mark III anti-aircraft machine guns; 2 × quadruple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers;

HMS Exmouth was an E-class destroyer flotilla leader built for the Royal Navy in 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. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 she spent considerable time in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Exmouth was assigned to convoy escort and anti-submarine patrol duties in the Western Approaches when World War II began in September 1939. She was sunk by a German submarine in January 1940 while escorting a merchant ship north of Scotland.

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