&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Shoreham_1943_IWM_FL_6536.jpg) HMS Shoreham in 1943
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Shoreham |
| Ordered | 23 September 1929 |
| Builder | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down | 19 December 1929 |
| Launched | 22 November 1930 |
| Completed | 2 November 1931 |
| Identification | Pennant number: L32 (later U32) |
| Fate | Scrapped November 1950 |
| 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 |
| Armament | 2 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mk V guns (2×1) |
HMS Shoreham was the lead ship of the Shoreham-class of sloops built for the British Royal Navy. Completed in 1931, Shoreham served pre-war in the Persian Gulf. In the Second World War she served in the Gulf and Red Sea, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. She survived the war and was sold for commercial use in 1946 and was scrapped in 1950.