HMS Bideford

Last updated December 28, 2021

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bideford, or the archaic variant HMS Biddeford, after the port town of Bideford, Devon. A sixth was planned but never built:

HMS Biddeford (1695) was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1695 and wrecked in 1699.
HMS Biddeford (1711) was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1711. She was rebuilt in 1727, and foundered in 1736.
HMS Bideford (1740) was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1740 and broken up by 1754.
HMS Bideford (1756) was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1756 and wrecked in 1761.
HMS Bideford was to have been a Hunt-class minesweeper, but was cancelled in 1918.
HMS Bideford (L43) was a Shoreham-class sloop launched in 1931 and sold for scrapping in 1949.

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

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