HMS Bideford (L43)
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| Name: | HMS Bideford |
| Builder: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 10 June 1930 |
| Launched: | 1 April 1931 |
| Completed: | 27 November 1931 |
| Commissioned: | 23 February 1932 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: L43 (later U43) |
| Motto: | 'Bide your time' |
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| Fate: | Sold for scrapping on 14 July 1949 |
| Badge: | On a Field Blue, a Bridge silver, beneath it a ship silver upon 2 wavelets gold and green. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Shoreham-class sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,150 tons |
| Length: | 281 ft (86 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) |
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| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Complement: | 95 |
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HMS Bideford was a Royal Navy Shoreham-class sloop. She was named after the town of Bideford in Devon and was launched on 1 April 1931.
The British Admiralty ordered four sloops of the new Shoreham class as part of the 1929 construction programme, with two each ordered from Devonport and Chatham dockyards. They were an improved version of the Hastings class of the 1928 programme, which were themselves a modification of the Bridgewater class.
Bideford was 281 feet 4 inches (85.75 m) long overall, with a beam of 35 feet (10.67 m) and a draught of 10 feet 4 inches (3.15 m). Displacement was 1,100 long tons (1,100 t) standard. Two Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers fed two geared steam turbines which drove two propeller shafts. The machinery was rated at 2,000 shaft horsepower (1,500 kW), giving a speed of 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph).
The ship's main gun armament consisted of two 4-inch (102 mm) QF Mk V guns mounted fore-and-aft on the ship's centreline, with the forward gun on a High-Angle (HA) anti-aircraft mounting and the aft gun on a Low-Angle (LA) mounting, suitable only for use against surface targets. Four 3-pounder saluting guns completed the ship's gun armament.
Bideford was laid down at Devonport on 10 June 1930, launched on 1 April 1931 and completed on 27 November 1931.
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