 Bleasdale on the Medway, c1943 (IWM) | |
| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMSBleasdale |
| 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. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Hunt-classdestroyer |
| Displacement |
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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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HMSBleasdale was aHunt-classdestroyer of theRoyal Navy. She was a member of the third subgroup of the class, and saw service in theSecond World War. All the ships of this class were named afterBritish fox hunts. She was the first Royal Navy warship with this name, after the Bleasdale hunt inLancashire.[1] In 1942 she was adopted by the civil community ofGarstang inLancashire, as part ofWarship Week.
On commissioningBleasdale served in the English Channel. In 1942 she was allocated as part of the Naval escort force for the unsuccessfulDieppe Raid in July 1942. In 1943 she remained in the English Channel. In 1944 she served mostly in the English Channel and was part of the escort force for the assault and landings in Normandy, as part of the D-Day operations. She provided gunfire support on Juno Beach.
In 1945 she was nominated for service in the Far East and underwent refit before passage. She was at Port Swetteneham in the Far East when the Japanese surrender was signed. She returned to the UK and was paid off at Chatham and placed in reserve on 16 November 1945.
In February 1946 she was recommissioned for the Nore Local Flotilla and the following year too part in Operation 'Big Bang' for the demilitarization of German defences at Heligoland. On 21 April 1952 she was again placed into reserve at Sheerness.
She was subsequently placed on the disposal list sold for scrap toHughes Bolckow. She arrived at theirship breaking yard at Blyth on 14 September 1956.[2]
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