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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | United Kingdom}} | UK|naval}} | Ship name= HMS Fernie | Ship namesake= | Ship ordered=21 March 1939 | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=John Brown & Company, Clydebank | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=8 June 1939 | Ship launched=12 December 1939 | Ship completed=8 June 1940 | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification=pennant number: L11 | Ship badge=On a Field White upon a saltire couped Red, two foxes brushes in saltire Gold. | Ship nickname= | Ship honours=*English Channel 1940-44- North Sea 1941-45
- Dieppe 1942
- Normandy 1944
| Ship captured= | Ship fate=Scrapped in 1956 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Type I Hunt-class destroyer | 1000|LT|t}} standard- {{convert|1340|LT|t}} full load
| 85|m|ftin|abbr=on}} o/a | 8.8|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 3.27|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=*2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, {{convert|19,000|shp|kW|abbr=on}}
| 27.5|kn|mph km/h|lk=in}}- {{convert|26|kn|mph km/h|abbr=on}} full
| 3500|nmi|km|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|15|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}- {{convert|1000|nmi|km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|26|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}
| Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship complement=146 | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=- 4 × QF {{convert|4|in|mm|sing=on|0}} Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk VIII AA guns on quad mount MK.VII
- 2 × 20-mm Oerlikon AA guns on single mounts P Mk. III
- 40 depth charges, 2 throwers, 1 rack
| Ship armour= | Ship notes=
}} | HMS Fernie was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by John Brown & Company on the River Clyde, and launched on 9 January 1940. She was adopted by the Civil Community of Market Harborough, Leicestershire, as part of the Warship Week campaign in 1942. She has been the only ship in the Royal Navy to carry this name. Service historyOn commissioning in 1940 Fernie completed work ups for service the English Channel. She provided escort cover during the evacuation of troops from French Channel Ports in June 1940. The following month she provided escort cover during the laying of the minefield of the northern barrage, north of North Rona. During the rest of the year she undertook escort duties in the English Channel. During 1941 and 1942 she continued escort duties in the English Channel and North sea. In August 1942 she was part of the escort force supporting the landings in the abortive Dieppe Raid and was subject to heavy air attack during the raid. In 1943 Fernie undertook convoy defence in the North Sea. In the following year was nominated to provide support for the Allied landings in Normandy. She then returned to convoy escort and patrol duties in the North Sea and English Channel. After August 1945 she was used as an air target ship at Rosyth.[1] She was subsequently placed in reserve at Chatham. She was then sold to BISCO for scrap. She arrived for scrapping at Port Glasgow on 7 November 1956. References1. ^{{cite book|last=Critchley |first=Mike |title=British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers |publisher=Maritime Books |location=Liskeard, UK |date=1982 |isbn=0-9506323-9-2 | |pages=26}}
Publications- {{colledge}}
- {{cite book|last1=English|first1=John|title=The Hunts : a history of the design, development and careers of 86 destroyers of this class built for the Royal and Allied Navies during World War II|date=1987|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Cumbria, England|isbn=0905617444}}
External links- Profile on naval-history.net
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