HMT Richard Bacon

HMT Richard Bacon (FY3587) was a British Castle-class naval trawler completed in 1918. She served through both world wars under two different names and also had a lengthy career as a civilian fishing trawler. For a short while, she functioned as a support vessel for a famous transatlantic flight by a group of Italian bombers. She was scrapped in 1954 after her boiler failed during a storm.

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Richard Bacon
Castle-class naval trawler, naval trawler, Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Royal Navy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,

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1914-07-28T00:00:00Z

World War I

1917-11-02T00:00:00Z

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