Class and type Hastings-class sloop Laid down 21 May 1929 Beam 34 ft (10 m) Launched 12 February 1930 Weight 1,062 tons Builder Swan Hunter | Name HMS Folkestone Commissioned 25 June 1930 Construction started 21 May 1929 Length 76 m Displacement 948,000 kg | |
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Fate Sold 22 May 1947
broken up November 1947 | ||
HMS Folkestone was a Hastings class sloop of the Royal Navy that saw action in World War II. She was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. of Wallsend-on-Tyne, laid down on 21 May 1929 and launched on 12 February 1930. She was commissioned on 25 June 1930 under the pennant number L22/U22.
On 17 October 1940 off Iceland, HMS Folkestone rescued seven survivors from SS Doka, a Norwegian merchantman sunk by the German submarine U-93.
She was sold on 22 May 1947 and broken up in November that year by Ward, of Milford Haven.
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