HMS Badsworth
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hms-badsworth-197-7517049
title:
HMS Badsworth
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HMS Badsworth (pennant number L03) was an escort destroyer of the Type II Hunt class. The Royal Navy ordered Badsworth's construction three months after the outbreak of the Second World War. Cammell Laird laid down her keel at their Birkenhead yard on 15 May 1940, as Admiralty Job No. J3260. After a successful Warship Week national savings campaign in March 1942, Badsworth was adopted by the civil community of Batley, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The ship was named after a fox-hunt in Y
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Destroyer of the Royal Navy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Badsworth
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date modified:
2023-03-13T03:31:11Z
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