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.