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HMS Sharpshooter

Dates: 1937 - 1965

HALCYON-Class Minesweeper ordered from HM Dockyard Devonport on 2nd March 1936 with sister ship to be named HMS HEBE. Turbine propulsion machinery was to be fitted. This ship was laid down on 8th June 1936 and was launched on 10th December that year. She was the 5th RN warship to carry this name which had been introduced for a 16 gun Gun Brig, built at Brightlingsea in 1802. The last was an S-Class Destroyer built by Beardmore in 1917 and sold in 1927. Build was completed on 17th December 1937 and she commissioned for service in the 1st Minesweeping Flotilla based at Portland. During WW2 this ship was adopted by the civil community of Penarth, Glamorgan after a successful WARSHIP WEEK National Savings campaign in March 1942.

Badge On a field Green a silver bow and a golden arrow.



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1937 - 1965
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