HMS Exeter

Type:
Cruiser
Class:
Builder:
Devonport Dockyard
Plymouth, England
Pennant Number:
68
Ordered:
March 15, 1928
Launched:
July 18, 1929
Keel Laid:
August 1, 1928
Commissioned:
July 27, 1931
Fate:
Sunk Mar. 1, 1942 by Japanese cruisers Nachi, Haguro, Ashigara, Myoko and destroyers
Akebono, Inazuma, Yamakaze, Kawakaze, Ikazuchi in the Battle off Bawean Island.

Location: Java Sea 90 miles north of Bawean Island, Indonesia.
(04.25S - 112.32E)

54 crewmen killed, 651 picked up by Japanese ships and remained POW's for the remainder
of the war, many of them died in Japanese POW camps.
(Roll of Honour)


Notes
Dec. 13, 1939:
Engaged the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate.
Hits from Admiral Graf Spee killed 58 crewmen, 8 others died of wounds later.

Feb. 27, 1942:

Damaged in action with Japanese warships in the Battle of the Java Sea, en route
for repairs when sunk Mar. 1, 1942



Builder's Data
Page published July 8, 2009