&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Fame_1942_IWM_FL_13040.jpg) Fame at anchor, September 1942
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Fame |
| Ordered | 17 March 1933 |
| Builder | Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, Wallsend |
| Cost | £244,216 |
| Laid down | 5 July 1933 |
| Launched | 28 June 1934 |
| Completed | 26 April 1935 |
| Fate | Sold to the Dominican Republic, 4 February 1949 |
 Dominican Republic | |
| Name | Generalisimo |
| Namesake | Generalissimo |
| Acquired | 4 February 1949 |
| Renamed | Sanchez, 1962 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1968 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | F-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 329 ft (100.3 m) (o/a) |
| Beam | 33 ft 3 in (10.13 m) |
| Draught | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) (deep) |
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| Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h; 40.9 mph) |
| Range | 6,350 nmi (11,760 km; 7,310 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 145 |
| Sensors and processing systems | ASDIC |
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HMS Fame was an F-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion, the ship was attached to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1935–36 during the Abyssinia Crisis. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, she spent time in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Fame served in the Norwegian Campaign in 1940 before she was severely damaged when she ran aground in October. The ship was refloated several months later and spent a year and a half under repair. Fame was converted into an escort destroyer while under repair and was assigned to escort duties in the North Atlantic when the repairs were completed in mid-1942.
She sank two German submarines before she was transferred back to British coastal waters in May 1944 to protect the build-up for Operation Overlord. Together with two other destroyers, she sank another German submarine that month and was reassigned to escort duties off the west coast of Scotland in July, where she remained until the war ended in May 1945. Fame remained on active duty until mid-1947 when she was paid off. The ship was recommissioned a year later and was then sold to the Dominican Republic in 1949. She was scrapped in 1968.