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{{short description|Destroyer of the Royal Navy}}

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|Ship name= ''Fernie''
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|Ship ordered=21 March 1939
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|Ship builder=[[John Brown & Company]], [[Clydebank]]
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|Ship identification=[[Pennant number]]: L11
|Ship badge=On a Field White upon a saltire couped Red, two foxes brushes in saltire Gold.
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|Ship honours=*English Channel 1940–44
*North Sea 1941–45
*Dieppe 1942
*Normandy 1944
|Ship fate=[[ship breaking|Scrapped]], 1956
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|Ship class=[[Hunt-class destroyer|Type I Hunt-class]] [[destroyer]]
|Ship displacement=*{{convert|1000|LT|t|0}} standard
*{{convert|1340|LT|t|0}} full load
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|Ship beam= {{convert|8.8|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship power= *2 × [[Admiralty boiler|Admiralty 3-drum boiler]]s
*{{cvt|19,000|shp|kW|lk=on}}
|Ship draught= {{convert|3.27|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
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*2 shafts; 2 geared [[steam turbine]]s
|Ship speed=*{{convert|27.5|kn|lk=in}}
*{{convert|26|kn}} full
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|Ship complement=146
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|Ship armament=*4 × [[QF 4 inch Mk XVI naval gun|QF {{cvt|4|in|mm|0}} guns]]
*4 × [[QF 2 pounder naval gun#QF 2-pounder Mark VIII|2-pdr ({{cvt|40|mm|in|1}})]] [[AA gun]]s
*2 × [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|{{cvt|20|mm|1}}]] AA guns
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'''HMS ''Fernie''''' was a [[Hunt-class destroyer|Type I Hunt-class]] [[destroyer]] built for the [[Royal Navy]] completed in mid-1940. She was adopted by the Civil Community of [[Market Harborough]], [[Leicestershire]], as part of the [[Warship Week]] campaign in 1942. She has been the only ship in the Royal Navy to carry this name.

==Service history==
On [[Ship commissioning|commissioning]] in 1940 ''Fernie'' completed work ups for service the [[English Channel]]. She provided escort cover during the evacuation of troops from French Channel Ports in June 1940. The following month she provided escort cover during the laying of the minefield of the northern barrage, north of [[North Rona]]. During the rest of the year she undertook escort duties in the English Channel.

During 1941 and 1942 she continued escort duties in the English Channel and North sea. In August 1942 she was part of the escort force supporting the landings in the abortive [[Dieppe Raid]] and was subject to heavy air attack during the raid.

In 1943 ''Fernie'' undertook convoy defence in the North Sea. In the following year was nominated to provide support for the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] landings in [[Normandy]]. She then returned to convoy escort and patrol duties in the North Sea and English Channel.

After August 1945 she was used as an air target ship at [[Rosyth]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Critchley |first=Mike |title=British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers |publisher=Maritime Books |location=Liskeard, UK |date=1982 |isbn=0-9506323-9-2 |pages=26}}</ref> She was subsequently placed in reserve at Chatham. She was then sold to [[British Iron & Steel Corporation|BISCO]] for scrap. She arrived for scrapping at Port Glasgow on 7 November 1956.

==References==
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==Publications==
* {{cite journal |last1=Atherton |first1=D. |last2=Brady |first2=Mark |last3=Buxton |first3=Ian |title=Question 46/01 |journal=Warship International |date=2002 |volume=XXXIX |issue=4 |pages=346–348|name-list-style=amp|issn=0043-0374}}
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}
* {{cite book|last1=English|first1=John|title=The Hunts: A History of the Design, Development and Careers of 86 Destroyers of This Class Built for the Royal and Allied Navies During World War II|date=1987|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Cumbria, UK|isbn=0-905617-44-4}}

==External links==
* [http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DE-Fernie.htm Profile on naval-history.net]

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[[Category:Hunt-class destroyers of the Royal Navy]]
[[Category:Naval ships of Operation Neptune]]
[[Category:Ships built on the River Clyde]]
[[Category:1939 ships]]
[[Category:World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom]]


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