HMS Tweed

Last updated April 21, 2022

HMS Tweed may refer to any one of several Royal Navy ships named for the River Tweed, including:

HMS Tweed (1759)
HMS Tweed was an Amazon-class frigate ordered and laid down in 1795, but was renamed HMS Glenmore on 30 October 1795 before her launch in 1796.
HMS Tweed (1807), a ship-sloop wrecked in 1813.
HMS Tweed (1823), a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate built in 1823 at Portsmouth and sold in 1852.
HMS Tweed (1877), a torpedo gunboat.
HMS Tweed (K250), River-class frigate of 1,460 tons displacement launched about 1943 and sunk on 7 January 1944 during the Second World War.

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HMS Tweed (K250) was a River-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). Tweed was built to the RN's specifications as a Group I River-class frigate, though Tweed was one of the few powered by a turbine engine. She served in the North Atlantic during World War II.

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