Fury HMS
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:17 pm
HMS Fury was built and engined by J.S. White & Co Ltd., Cowes, Isle of Wight. She was laid down in 1933 and 248 completed on the 18th May 1935.
Of 1350 tons standard displacement, with a length of 329' and a breadth of 33'3" she exceeded her design speed of 36 knots in her trials.
Her main armament on commencement of hostilities consisted of four 4.7" QF guns. This was reduced to three plus one 3 pdr. H.A. gun. Later two 20mm Oerlikon guns were added and later still the 3 pdr was replaced with two more 20mm Oerlikon guns. The ship also carried 2 x 21" QR Torpedo tubes, 2 throwers and one rail for depth charges. The outbreak of the war found HMS Fury attached to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow as part of the 8th Destroyer Flotilla. She was soon in action attacking, unsuccessfully, a submarine. Her main duties at this time was to screen units of the Home Fleet and in this role she was involved in the bombardment of Stavanger and in escorting first HS Suffolk back to UK after it had been damaged by a bomb and later HMS Kelly who was hit by a torpedo launched by an B-boat.
In July 1940 HMS Fury, together with the rest of 8th Destroyer Flotilla was transferred to Force H at Gibraltar. She remained with Force H until October 1941 when she returned to the 13K. During her time in the Mediterranean she also saw action with Force B off Cape Spartivento.
Following a refit in the Humber she went on escort duty with the Russian convoys, from Iceland to Murmansk. On the 29th March 1942 she sank U585 and damaged German destroyer ZZ6 which was later sunk by HMS Eclipse.
HMS Fury returned to the Mediterranean to take part in Operation Pedestal before
making her way back to Britain and then on to escorting the Russian convoys.
In 1943 she again joined Force Hand was involved in the invasion of Sicily and Italy. A spell in the Aegean then followed. She was kept busy supplying allied forces on the islands with stores and sinking enemy ships.
In one engagement an ammunition ship, an armed trawler and six landing craft were sunk. At the end of 1943 HMS Fury sailed back to Gibraltar for essential repairs. In May 1944 she returned to the Home Fleet and took part in Operation Neptune. Her task was to escort the convoys to Normandy and it was while on this task that she hit a mine and was driven ashore. An examination of the damage revealed she was beyond repair and she was sold for scrap.
Her battle honours include:
Spartivento 1940. Mediterranean 1941. Malta Convoys
1941-42. Atlantic 1941-43. Artic 1942-43. Sicily 1943. Salerno 1943. Aegean 1943. Normandy 1944.
Log Book July 1985.
Gibraltar SG523
Of 1350 tons standard displacement, with a length of 329' and a breadth of 33'3" she exceeded her design speed of 36 knots in her trials.
Her main armament on commencement of hostilities consisted of four 4.7" QF guns. This was reduced to three plus one 3 pdr. H.A. gun. Later two 20mm Oerlikon guns were added and later still the 3 pdr was replaced with two more 20mm Oerlikon guns. The ship also carried 2 x 21" QR Torpedo tubes, 2 throwers and one rail for depth charges. The outbreak of the war found HMS Fury attached to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow as part of the 8th Destroyer Flotilla. She was soon in action attacking, unsuccessfully, a submarine. Her main duties at this time was to screen units of the Home Fleet and in this role she was involved in the bombardment of Stavanger and in escorting first HS Suffolk back to UK after it had been damaged by a bomb and later HMS Kelly who was hit by a torpedo launched by an B-boat.
In July 1940 HMS Fury, together with the rest of 8th Destroyer Flotilla was transferred to Force H at Gibraltar. She remained with Force H until October 1941 when she returned to the 13K. During her time in the Mediterranean she also saw action with Force B off Cape Spartivento.
Following a refit in the Humber she went on escort duty with the Russian convoys, from Iceland to Murmansk. On the 29th March 1942 she sank U585 and damaged German destroyer ZZ6 which was later sunk by HMS Eclipse.
HMS Fury returned to the Mediterranean to take part in Operation Pedestal before
making her way back to Britain and then on to escorting the Russian convoys.
In 1943 she again joined Force Hand was involved in the invasion of Sicily and Italy. A spell in the Aegean then followed. She was kept busy supplying allied forces on the islands with stores and sinking enemy ships.
In one engagement an ammunition ship, an armed trawler and six landing craft were sunk. At the end of 1943 HMS Fury sailed back to Gibraltar for essential repairs. In May 1944 she returned to the Home Fleet and took part in Operation Neptune. Her task was to escort the convoys to Normandy and it was while on this task that she hit a mine and was driven ashore. An examination of the damage revealed she was beyond repair and she was sold for scrap.
Her battle honours include:
Spartivento 1940. Mediterranean 1941. Malta Convoys
1941-42. Atlantic 1941-43. Artic 1942-43. Sicily 1943. Salerno 1943. Aegean 1943. Normandy 1944.
Log Book July 1985.
Gibraltar SG523