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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. Bideford served in the Second World War. In May 1940 she helped in the Dunkirk evacuation, in which her stern was badly damaged. The River-class gunboat HMS Locust towed her back to Dover, which took 30 hours and ended on 31 May. Bideford survived the war and was scrapped in 1949.

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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. Bideford served in the Second World War. In May 1940 she helped in the Dunkirk evacuation, in which her stern was badly damaged. The River-class gunboat HMS Locust towed her back to Dover, which took 30 hours and ended on 31 May. Bideford survived the war and was scrapped in 1949.
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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. Bideford served in the Second World War. In May 1940 she helped in the Dunkirk evacuation, in which her stern was badly damaged. The River-class gunboat HMS Locust towed her back to Dover, which took 30 hours and ended on 31 May. Bideford was used in anti-submarine sweeps and as a convoy escort in the North Atlantic. She rescued 63 survivors of the torpedoed on 3 September 1941 and 31 from on 31 October 1942. In August 1943 while serving with the 40th Escort Group in the Bay of Biscay, Bideford was damaged by a Henschel Hs 293 guided missile. Bideford survived the war and was scrapped in 1949.
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