HMS Bleasdale
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HMS Bleasdale was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was a member of the third subgroup of the class, and saw service in the Second World War. All the ships of this class were named after British fox hunts. She was the first Royal Navy warship with this name, after the Bleasdale hunt in Lancashire.[1] In 1942 she was adopted by the civil community of Garstang in Lancashire, as part of Warship Week.
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Bleasdale on the Medway, c1943 (IWM) | |
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Name | HMS Bleasdale |
Ordered | 19 July 1940 |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle |
Laid down | 31 October 1940 |
Launched | 23 July 1941 |
Completed | 16 April 1942 |
Identification | Pennant number L50 |
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Fate | Scrapped in 1956 |
Badge | On a Field Red, a hunting horn and crozier in saltire, both Gold. |
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Class and type | Hunt-class destroyer |
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Length | 85.3 m (279 ft 10 in) o/a |
Beam | 10.16 m (33 ft 4 in) |
Draught | 3.51 m (11 ft 6 in) |
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Range | 2,350 nmi (4,350 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h) |
Complement | 168 |
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