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HMS Firedrake Page 2 |
 | | HMS Firedrake, an 'F' class Destroyer, was ordered under the 1932 program on the 17th March 1933. |
 | | Laid down on the 5th July 1933, the HMS Firedrake was launched on 28th June 1934, by Mrs Blake, wife of Rear Admiral Geoffrey Blake DSO, the Fourth Sea Lord. |
 | | On the 25th March, together HM ships Icarus and Impulsive, the Firedrake was sent to search for the U-boat responsible for sinking the tanker Daghestan, on passage from Scapa to Sullum Voe, five miles north-east of the Pentland Skerries earlier that day, but without success. |
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