Talk:HMS Devonshire (39)

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Someone should probably disambiguate & write up previous ships by this name... but I don't know much of anything about them. -FZ 15:22, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Spanish Civil War, Menorca
This section does not make sense. I would hazard a guess it has been auto translated from another source, but i propose removing if sense can't be made of it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.195.66.80 (talk) 23:16, 24 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I've read it through a couple of times and can't make head nor tail of it, or whether it even involves Devonshire at all. There's a brief note already on her involvement in the surrender of Menorca, and given that the other material was unintelligible, I have removed it. Benea (talk) 00:51, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Incorrect pennant numbers applied to numerous pages !
HMS Devonshire (39) is a typical example of numerous Royal Navy ship pages citing an incomplete pennant number. The Royal Navy pennant numbering system is explained on another Wiki page. Simply quoting the number alone is daft, as a number of ships would be using the number at any one time. I suspect HMS Devonshires full pennant to be C39 during WWII. Can someone correct this annoying problem please...............--91.5.150.231 (talk) 23:40, 19 July 2013 (UTC)


 * If you've read this off the wikipedia page, you've apparently forgotten the detail that capital ships like aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, etc were not initially allocated the flag superiors, while the smaller vessels (destroyers, minesweepers, etc) were. So while Devonshire had the complete pennant number 39, the C was a later addition. Other ships also used 39 as a pennant number, but with a flag superior. So the destroyer HMS Amazon (D39) was D39, the sloop HMS Shearwater (L39) was L39. And Devonshire was just 39. Benea (talk) 23:58, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

HMS Devosnshire in Norway
The Honours Board for the ship is on display in the City Hall in Oslo Norway. My photograph taken in 2008. https://www.flickr.com/photos/bolckow/2342825103/in/album-72157604148944884/ Ian J. N. Stubbs (talk) 08:41, 2 February 2024 (UTC)