HMS Bronington
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HMS Bronington is a former Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy, named HMS Humber between 1954 and 1958. This mahogany-hulled minesweeper was one of the last of the wooden-hulled naval vessels. Decommissioned in 1988, she was subsequently a museum ship, but sank at Birkenhead in 2016.
1954 Website,
Wikimedia, Wikidata
HMS Humber; M1115
length 46.33 metre,
Royal Navy, Cook, Welton & Gemmell,
- Facebook channel@
- National Historic Ships page@
Location: 53.4043, -3.0279, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
16 places
1954-06-04T00:00:00Z
1954-06-04T00:00:00Z
1954 HMS Bronington
1951-05-30T00:00:00Z
1951-05-30T00:00:00Z
keel laying
1954-06-04T00:00:00Z
1954-06-04T00:00:00Z
ship commissioning
1953-03-19T00:00:00Z
1953-03-19T00:00:00Z
ship launching
1988-06-30T00:00:00Z
1988-06-30T00:00:00Z
ship decommissioning
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| event | armed conflict | 430 | Alleluia Victory of Germanus | Pelagianism, battle, Germanus of Auxerre | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 615 | Battle of Chester | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1157 | Battle of Ewloe | Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Gwynedd, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1167 | Battle of Prestatyn Castle | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1199 | Battle of Mold Castle | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1213 | Battle of Holywell Castle | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1263 | Battle of Diserth Castle | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1282 | Battle of Hawarden Castle, | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1644 | Siege of Lathom House | Roundhead, Cavalier, siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1644 | Battle of Ormskirk | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1645 | Siege of Chester | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1645 | Siege of Lathom House | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1645 | Battle of Rowton Heath | Cavalier, Roundhead, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1648 | Battle of Winwick | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1651 | Battle of Warrington Bridge | battle, Commonwealth of England, Kingdom of Scotland | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1940 | Liverpool Blitz | United Kingdom, Nazi Germany, aerial bombing of a city | Wikidata |
| link | channel | Facebook channel@ | Wikidata | ||
| link | page | National Historic Ships page@ | Wikidata | ||
| organisation | arms industry | 1828 | Cammell Laird | shipyard, arms industry, shipbuilding, building of ships and floating structures, vehicle construction | Wikidata |
| organisation | shipbuilding company | Laird Brothers | shipbuilding company | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite 380m east of South Lane Farm | anti-aircraft battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 250m north east of New Farm Cottages | anti-aircraft battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 400m west of Sutton Fields Farm | anti-aircraft battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | 1875 | Seaforth Battery | artillery battery | Wikidata |
| site | artillery battery | 1906 | Crosby Battery | artillery battery | Wikidata |
| site | bunker | Birkenhead Wirral Metropolitan Borough Emergency Centre | Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, civil defense center | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Bootle Merseyside County Main Emergency Centre 2nd Site | Merseyside County Council, civil defense center | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Ellesmere Port Emergency Centre | Cheshire West and Chester, civil defense center | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Frodsham Anti -Aircraft Operations Room | bunker | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Liverpool Walker Gallery Merseyside County Main Emergency Centre 1st Site | civil defense center, Merseyside County Council | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Southport Dukes House bunker | bunker | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Southport Merseyside County Standby Emergency Centre | civil defense center, Merseyside County Council | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Southport Sefton Metropolitan Borough Emergency Centre | civil defense center, Merseyside County Council | Wikidata | |
| site | castle | 1001 | Halton Castle | ruins, castle | Wikidata |
| site | castle | 1069 | Chester Castle | English Heritage, castle | Wikidata |
| site | castle | 1257 | Ewloe Castle | Welsh princes' castles, Cadw, castle | Wikidata |
| site | castle | 1277 | Flint Castle | the Crown, Cadw, archaeological site, castle | Wikidata |
| site | castle | 1277 | Hawarden Old Castle | castle ruin | Wikidata |
| site | fort | 1825 | Fort Perch Rock | fort | Wikidata |
| site | museum | U-534 | preserved watercraft, U-boat, museum ship, Kriegsmarine | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | 1400 | Water Tower, Chester | fortified tower, museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1954 | HMS Bronington | preserved watercraft, museum ship, minesweeper, Royal Navy | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1972 | Cheshire Military Museum | independent museum, military museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1979 | Grange Cavern Military Museum | military museum | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 2000 | RAF Burtonwood Heritage Centre | heritage center, military museum | Wikidata |
| commons | image | HMS Bronington (M1115), West Float, Birkenhead | Commons | ||
