HMS Fleetwood
HMS Fleetwood (U47)
Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fleetwood, after the town of Fleetwood. A third ship was planned as Fleetwood, but was renamed before being launched:
- was a Royalist ship captured by the Parliamentarians in 1655 and renamed Wexford.
- HMS Fleetwood was to have been a Hunt-class minesweeper. She was renamed HMS Ford in 1918 and was launched later that year.
- HMS Fleetwood (U47) was a Grimsby-class sloop launched in 1936 and broken up after 1959.
References[]
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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