HMS Milford

HMS Milford was a Shoreham-class sloop of the British Royal Navy built at Devonport Dockyard in 1931–1932. After peacetime operations on the Africa Station during the 1930s, Milford served during the Second World War. Her wartime service between 1939 and 1943 mostly involved convoy escort duties off Africa, but in 1940 she also took part in Operation Catapult and Operation Menace, both targeting Vichy French forces at Dakar, Senegal, and in the Battle of Gabon, in which she damaged the Vichy French submarine Poncelet so severely that Poncelet's commander Bertrand de Saussine du Pont de Gault scuttled her, to ensure she did not fall into enemy hands. After training duty in 1944 and 1945, Milford was placed in reserve in 1946 and sold in 1949.

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Shoreham-class sloop, sloop-of-war, HMNB Devonport, Royal Navy, United Kingdom, 

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1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

ship launching

1931-09-14T00:00:00Z

1931-09-14T00:00:00Z

keel laying

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Frameless

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link	page		uboat.net page@		Wikidata