&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Milford_1944_IWM_FL_15277.jpg) HMS Milford in 1944
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Milford |
| Ordered | 24 April 1931 |
| Builder | Devonport Dockyard |
| Laid down | 14 September 1931 |
| Launched | 11 June 1932 |
| Completed | 22 December 1932 |
| Decommissioned | 1946 |
| Identification | Pennant number: L51 (1932–1940), U51 (1940-1949) |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 3 June 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Shoreham-class sloop |
| Displacement | 1,105 long tons (1,123 t) |
| Length | 281 ft (86 m) |
| Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Draught | 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) |
| Propulsion | Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 2,000 shp (1,491 kW) |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 95 |
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HMS Milford was a Shoreham-class sloop[a] of the British Royal Navy built at Devonport Dockyard in 1931–1932. After peacetime operations on the Africa Station during the 1930s, Milford served during the Second World War. Her wartime service between 1939 and 1943 mostly involved convoy escort duties off Africa, but in 1940 she also took part in Operation Catapult and Operation Menace, both targeting Vichy French forces at Dakar, Senegal, and in the Battle of Gabon, in which she damaged the Vichy French submarine Poncelet so severely that Poncelet scuttled herself. After training duty in 1944 and 1945, Milford was placed in reserve in 1946 and sold in 1949.[2][3]
Milford's original pennant number was L51, but it was changed to U51 sometime in May or June 1940.[3]
- ^ Hague 1993, pp. 12–13, 38
- ^ "HMS Milford (L 51 / U 51) of the Royal Navy - British Sloop of the Falmouth class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net". uboat.net. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
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