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HMS Shrewsbury

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Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Shrewsbury, after the English town of Shrewsbury:

  • HMS Shrewsbury was an 80-gun second rate launched in 1695. She was rebuilt in 1713 and broken up in 1749.
  • HMS Shrewsbury was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1758. She was condemned in 1783 and scuttled that year.
  • HMS Shrewsbury was a Hunt class minesweeper launched in 1918 and sold in 1927.

    • There was also HMS Shrewsbury Castle, a Castle class corvette launched in 1943. She was loaned to the Royal Norwegian Navy and renamed HNoMS Tunsberg Castle in 1944 and was sunk that year by a mine.

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    HMS Shrewsbury Wikipedia
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