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    The Hastings class, also known as the Folkestone class, was a class of sloop which were built for the Royal Navy and the Royal Indian Navy in the interwar...
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  • Flower-class corvette Castle-class corvette 24-class sloop Bridgewater-class sloop[page needed] Hastings-class sloop Banff-class sloop Shoreham-class sloop[page needed]...
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    HMS Hastings was a Hastings-class sloop of the Royal Navy that saw action in World War II. She was built by HM Dockyard Devonport, laid down on 29 July...
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  • HMS Penzance (1747) was a frigate of 1747 The third HMS Penzance (L28) was a Hastings-class sloop launched in 1930 and torpedoed and sunk in 1940 whilst on convoy...
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    The Grimsby class were a class of 13 sloops laid down between 1933 and 1940. Of these, eight were built in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy, four...
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    vessels and fire ships were classed by the Royal Navy as sloops-of-war, and in practice these were employed in the role of a sloop-of-war when not carrying...
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    HMS Newport Shoreham-class sloop: HMS Rochester Hastings-class sloop: HMS Hastings Bridgewater-class sloop: HMS Sandwich Grimsby-class sloops: HMS Leith Armed...
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    HMS Penzance (L28) (category Hastings-class sloops)
    The third HMS Penzance (L28) was a Hastings-class sloop launched in 1930, and torpedoed and sunk in 1940 whilst on convoy protection duty by the German...
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    HMIS Hindustan (L80) was a Folkestone-class (also known as Hastings class) sloop which served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War II. Her pennant...
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  • Thumbnail for Black Swan-class sloop
    The Black Swan class and Modified Black Swan class were two classes of sloop of the Royal Navy and Royal Indian Navy. Twelve Black Swans were launched...
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    HMS Richmond Hastings-class sloop HMS Scarborough Ness-class combat stores ship RFA Lyness RFA Stromness RFA Tarbatness Fort Victoria-class replenishment...
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  • in 1885. HMS Hastings (1821) was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1821 and broken up in 1855. HMS Hastings (L27) was a Hastings-class sloop launched in...
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    200,063 gross register tons (GRT); and two warships, the British Hastings-class sloop HMS Penzance, and the French submarine Sfax (Q182). U-37 was then...
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    HMS Folkestone (L22) (category Hastings-class sloops)
    HMS Folkestone was a Hastings-class sloop of the Royal Navy that saw action in World War II. She was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. of...
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  • HMS Scarborough (L25) was a Hastings-class sloop launched in 1930 and sold in 1949. HMS Scarborough (F63) was a Whitby-class frigate launched in 1955 and...
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    The P class, nominally described as "patrol boats", was in effect a class of British coastal sloops. Twenty-four ships to this design were ordered in...
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    The Shoreham-class sloops were a class of eight sloops of the Royal Navy built in the early 1930s. Developed from the Bridgewater class, with a longer...
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    HMS Scarborough (L25) (category Hastings-class sloops)
    HMS Scarborough was a Hastings-class sloop of the Royal Navy launched in 1930. She served in the Second World War, especially as a convoy escort in the...
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    Cruizer class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops were the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging. A ship-sloop was rigged...
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    The Bridgewater-class sloop was a class composed of two sloops built for the Royal Navy, HMS Bridgewater and HMS Sandwich. The ships were part of the Royal...
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  • Thumbnail for Aubrietia-class sloop
    The Aubrietia-class sloops were a class of twelve sloops built under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy in World War I as part of the larger...
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  • months aboard as a junior midshipman. HMIS Hindustan (L80) was a Hastings-class sloop of the Royal Indian Marine launched in 1930. She was involved in...
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  • west. On 14 June HX 47’s Western Approaches escort arrived. These were the sloops HMS Sandwich, from escorting the outbound convoy OA 164, and HMS Fowey from...
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    Cruizer class was a class of six 17-gun wooden screw sloops built for the Royal Navy between 1852 and 1856. The wooden sloops of the Cruizer class were designed...
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    Sixth-rate, corvette, and sloop classes of the Royal Navy. During the Age of Sail, warships were divided into ranks or classes. The English Royal Navy adopted...
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    order of the merchant ships but did not command the escort. The Hastings-class sloop HMS Scarborough was sole naval escort for the first three quarters...
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    Sydney on 5 October 1940; at first with only one escort ship; the Hastings-class sloop HMS Scarborough. A wolf pack of U-boats found the convoy on 16 October...
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  • on 5 October. At first the convoy had only one escort ship, the Hastings-class sloop HMS Scarborough. A wolf pack of U-boats found the convoy on 16 October...
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  • Thumbnail for Anchusa-class sloop
    Anchusa-class sloops were built under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy in World War I as the final part of the larger "Flower class", which...
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  • & Sawyer 1990, pp. 389–90. Sources Hague, Arnold (1993). Sloops: A History of the 71 Sloops Built in Britain and Australia for the British, Australian...
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