Dates: Unknown - 1945

H . M . S . B O R E A S ( H 7 7 )



“BEAGLE” Class destroyer ordered from Palmer’s at Jarrow on Tyne in the 1938 Build Programme on 22nd March 1929. The ship was laid down on 22nd July 1929 and was launched on 11th June 1930 as the 5th RN ship to carry the name, introduced in 1757 for a 6th Rate and last used by a Trawler hired during WW1.Build was completed on 20th February 1931 at a contract price of £221,156 which excluded supply of guns and communications equipment by the Admiralty. Until 1938 this ship served in the 4th Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet and then joined the Home Fleet. Following a successful WARSHIP WEEK National Savings campaign in March 1942 she was adopted by the civil community of Southall, the in Middlesex and now part of the London Borough of Ealing.



B a t t l e H o n o u r s



LOUISBERG 1759 - HAVANA 1762 - ENGLISH CHANNEL 1940 - ATLANTIC 1941-2 - NORTH AFRICA 1942-43



H e r a l d i c D a t a

Badge : On a field Black, a winged figure Gold with

Silver breath.

(Note: Boreas is the God of the North wind.)



M o t t o

Vente favente : ’With favouring wind’

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