HMSFarndale, September 1943
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMSFarndale
Ordered	4 September 1939
Builder	Swan Hunter, Wallsend
Laid down	21 November 1939
Launched	30 September 1940
Completed	27 April 1941
Identification	Pennant number:L70
Honours and awards	Malta Convoys 1941 Mediterranean 1941 Libya 1942 Atlantic 1942 Arctic 1942 North Africa 1942–43 Sicily 1943 Salerno 1943 Aegean 1943 South France 1944 North Sea 1945
Fate	Scrapped, 1962
Badge	On a Field Red, a plate thereon a fox's head caboosed Red within an annulet Blue
General characteristics Type II
Displacement	1,050 long tons (1,070 t) standard 1,430 long tons (1,450 t) full load
Length	85.3 m (279 ft 10 in)o/a
Beam	9.6 m (31 ft 6 in)
Draught	2.51 m (8 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shaftParsonsgeared turbines, 19,000 shp (14,200 kW)
Speed	27knots (31 mph; 50 km/h) 25.5 kn (29.3 mph; 47.2 km/h) full
Range	3,600 nmi (6,700 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
Complement	164
Armament	6 ×QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX 4 ×QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount Mk. VII 2 ×20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III 110depth charges, 2 throwers, 3 racks

HMSFarndale was a Type 2Hunt-classdestroyer of theRoyal Navy which served inWorld War II. She was scrapped in 1962. She was the only British warship so far to bear this name.My dad James McNamara served on HMS Farmdale during the war .He was wounded in the leg while the Farndale was protecting Russian convoys.

Farndale was ordered on 4 September 1939 under the 1939 War Emergency Build Programme.^[1] She was completed in April 1941. She was adopted by the civil community of Southgate, then in Middlesex, as part ofWarship Week in 1942.

She earned eleven battle honours for extensive service during World War II. This included service in the Mediterranean where she was severely damaged in February 1942, and resulted in extensive repairs in the UK that year. She then saw service with Russian convoys, followed by work to support the allied landings in Italy. Towards the end of the war she was nominated for service in the Far East in support ofOperation Zipper for landings in Malaya, which was cancelled with the end of the war.

She returned to Sheerness from the Far East in November 1945 and was transferred to theReserve Fleet. From 1946 until 1951 she was part of the Nore Local Flotilla and was then placed in reserve again at Hartlepool. She remained there until 1962 when she was sold toBISCO for scrapping byHughes Bolckow. She arrived at their breakers yard in Blyth on 29 November 1962.^[2]

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