D-class destroyers and the Battle of Cape Spartivento

Laurence Batchelor · Post by **Laurence Batchelor** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:30 pm

Can someone please jog my memory as I could not find the older thread.

We had a long debate several months ago in indentifying a F-class destroyer from the 8th flotilla in a rare wartime photo I posted at the Battle of Cape Spartivento in November 1940.

These were operating at the time out of Gibraltar.
Can someone please tell me the ship we all agreed on through process of elimination?

I wish to know as I may have found more evidence that these F-class ships of the 8th Flotilla were not entirely painted in dark hull light upperworks, but had intricate disruptive camouflage schemes early in the war.

ar · Post by ar » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:29 am

Young Laurence,
Read you words carefully, you are mixing up two classes.

Laurence Batchelor wrote:Can someone please jog my memory as I could not find the older thread.

We had a long debate several months ago in indentifying a D-class destroyer from the 8th flotilla in a rare wartime photo I posted at the Battle of Cape Spartivento in November 1940.

These were operating at the time out of Gibraltar.
Can someone please tell me the ship we all agreed on through process of elimination?

I wish to know as I may have found more evidence that these F-class ships of the 8th Flotilla were not entirely painted in dark hull light upperworks, but had intricate disruptive camouflage schemes early in the war.

Laurence Batchelor · Post by **Laurence Batchelor** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:59 am

sorry for D-class read F-class.

Can you recall which it was we came to the conclusion had patterned camouflage in this photo?

Would my grey matter be right in saying we came to the conclusion it was HMS Fearless?

It appears our original thread from March has dropped off the boards.

ar · Post by ar » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:18 am

Still not clear. Or; I am losing it.

Laurence Batchelor · Post by **Laurence Batchelor** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:21 am

Perhaps

In other words does the above photo show HMS Fearless?

ar · Post by ar » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:35 am

I believe that it was a D class ship. Others will have a better memory than I.

Laurence Batchelor · Post by **Laurence Batchelor** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:02 am

It seems out of all I sent private messages to we all have forgot!

Whats your thoughts on this please?

http://www.shipmodels.info/mwphpBB2/vie ... 3&start=90

ar · Post by ar » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:13 am

I don't quite follow where you might be going with this?
If you could stay with one thing it might help, and I am not quite certain what that may be.

Laurence Batchelor · Post by **Laurence Batchelor** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:48 am

It's simple, the question:

what destroyer please is that in the above photo precisely?

We came to a conclusion through a process of elimination several months ago.

Everyone including myself have forgotten what is was.
I wish to know again please as it may have a bearing on some other camouflage information I have found.

Laurence Batchelor · Post by **Laurence Batchelor** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:22 pm

Petros jogged my memory it was in fact a D-class, HMS Defender H07 we narrowed it down as.

Right then forget I even breathed a word about the 8th Flotilla!

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