United Kingdom

Belleisle

ORP Mors

Sold, 1816

HMS Bellerophon

HMS Bigbury Bay was a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for Bigbury Bay in Devon.The ship was originally ordered on 19 January 1943 as a Loch-class frigate to be named Loch Carloway, but the order was changed before construction began. She was laid down on 30 May 1944 as Job Number J11825 by Hall Russell at Aberdeen, launched on 16 November 1944, and completed on 12 July 1945 with the pennant number K606.

Cook, Welton & Gemmill, Beverley

HMS Blackwood was the name ship of her class (also known as the Type 14-class frigate) of second-rate anti-submarine frigates built for the Royal Navy in the 1950s.

*Decca 1216 navigation radar

HMS Blanche was a 1760-ton, 6-gun Eclipse-class wooden screw sloop built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1860s by Chatham Dockyard.She was sent to the Australia Station in January 1868, arriving in April 1868. She undertook a punitive action against Solomon Island natives in September 1869. During 1870, she joined in the search for the schooner Daphne, which was unsuccessful. Under the command of Captain Cortland Simpson, she undertook a survey of Rabaul's Harbour in 1872. Blanche Bay is named after HMS Blanche. She finished service on the Australia Station in 1875. While sailing to England she was almost lost rounding Cape Horn in bad weather.After being refitted and rearmed, she was sent to the North America and West Indies Station, where she remained until 1881.

HMS Beckford (P3104) was one of 20 Ford-class patrol boats built for the Royal Navy in the 1950s.Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ford. This boat was named after Beckford, Worcestershire.Beckford was launched on 27 April 55. She was later renamed HMS Dee whilst serving as the training tender to the Mersey Division of the Royal Naval Reserve. In 1968 the vessel was chartered by the Plessey Group and renamed Robert Clive, then returned as HMS Dee to the RNR in January 1969.

*10 × single BL guns
*4 × single QF 3-pounder () guns
*2 × single torpedo tubes

Subsidiary

o/a

NRP Pacheco Pereira

HMS Basilisk was a Serpent-class bomb vessel of the Royal Navy, one of ten such vessels commissioned in 1695 to support land assaults on continental ports. Initially commissioned as part of Admiral John Berkeley's fleet during the Nine Years' War, she also saw service as an exploratory vessel along the St Lawrence River, and later as part of the victorious British forces at the Battle of Cape Passaro.At 163 tonnes burthen she was the largest vessel in her class and also the last survivor of it; all nine of her sister ships had been lost or broken up by the time she was decommissioned and broken up at Deptford Dockyard in 1729.

sold for commercial service 1945, scrapped 1968

Great Britain

HMS BYMS-2203 (J1003)

*4 × BL guns
*10 × QF 4.7-inch (120-mm) guns
*8 × 6-pounder quick-firing guns
*12 × 3-pounder (47 mm) quick-firing guns
*7 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes

* Belt:
* Upper Belt:
* Bulkheads:
* Decks:
* Conning Tower:
* Barbettes:
* Gunhouses:
* Casemates:

HMS Blazer is an Archer-class patrol vessel of the Royal Navy. She was built by Vosper Thornycroft. She is just over 20 metres long and 5.8 metres wide and powered by two Rolls-Royce turbo engines. The ship is based at HMS Nelson, the shore base in Portsmouth and was commissioned in 1988.She has four crew plus a commanding officer, and sails with a training officer and a complement of students.

HMS Barfleur (1768)

HMS Blackwood

HMS Awake

HMS Bacchus

overall
HMS Aylmer (K463)

Bahamas, 1943

title

HMS Dee (P3104)

HMS Blean was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was named after the Blean Beagles Hunt at the village of Blean just north of Canterbury. She had the shortest career of any of the Hunt-class destroyers.Built at Hebburn-on-Tyne by Hawthorn Leslie, she was laid down on 22 February 1941, launched on 15 January 1942 and commissioned on 23 August 1942.

HMSHost

November 1910

*400 nominal horsepower
*

HMS Audacious

HMS Belfast is a museum ship, originally a Royal Navy light cruiser, permanently moored in London on the River Thames and operated by the Imperial War Museum.Construction of Belfast, the first Royal Navy ship to be named after the capital city of Northern Ireland, and one of ten Town-class cruisers, began in December 1936. She was launched on St Patrick's Day, 17 March 1938.

HMS Banshee was one of three Banshee-class destroyers which served with the Royal Navy.She was launched on 17 November 1894 at the Laird, Son and Co shipyard, Birkenhead, and served most of her time in the Mediterranean. Banshee was sold off in 1912.

*
*3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers

HMS Beagle (H30)

* surfaced
* submerged

*Atlantic 1943–1944
*Salerno 1943
*South France 1944
*Aegean 1944

HMS Blake

Transferred to United Kingdom 6 December 1943

HMS Beckford (P3104) was one of 20 Ford-class patrol boats built for the Royal Navy in the 1950s.Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ford. This boat was named after Beckford, Worcestershire.Beckford was launched on 27 April 55. She was later renamed HMS Dee whilst serving as the training tender to the Mersey Division of the Royal Naval Reserve. In 1968 the vessel was chartered by the Plessey Group and renamed Robert Clive, then returned as HMS Dee to the RNR in January 1969. She was placed on the disposals list in 1982 and sold to Pounds Marine Shipping in 1984 She was fitted with schooner rig and (as of 2014) has been anchored off Shotley, Suffolk in Harwich harbour for "a very long time."

HMS Blanche

*2 × guns
*8 × 40 mm anti-aircraft guns
*20 × 20 mm anti-aircraftcannons

Baralong

Kansas City, Missouri

HMS Barfleur

*74 guns:
*Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders
*Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounders
*Quarterdeck: 4 × 12-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder carronades
*Forecastle: 2 × 12-pounders, 2 × 32-pounder carronades
*Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

Type 119 ASDIC

HMS Bahamas

USS Impulse

HMS Attacker

Pennant number: F78

HMS Bigbury Bay (K606)

On a Field Gold, an Aphis green

HMS Baralong

*2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
*2 shaft Parsons geared turbines,

"Premier in the First"

HMS Belmont (H-46)

*2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns
*4 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns

HMS Blackmore

Elk, a large deer species found in North America

Scrapped 1947

Belleisle was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1760.She was captured by the Royal Navy on 3 April 1761, and commissioned as the Third Rate HMS Belleisle.

Bigbury Bay, Devon

HMS BYMS-2282 was a BYMS-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was built as YMS-282 for the United States Navy but was transferred under Lend-Lease to the United Kingdom upon completion and never commissioned into the United States Navy. BYMS-2282 was transferred to the Polish Navy after conclusion of the war and served as ORP Mors.

* 2 × BL L/40 Mark VIII guns, mounting P Mark V
* 2 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun, mounting P Mark I
* 2 × single tubes for 21 inch torpedoes

HMS Begonia was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy during World War II. In 1942 she was lent to the United States Navy and commissioned as USS Impulse. Returned to the Royal Navy in 1945, Begonia was stricken and sold into merchant service. She was wrecked off the coast of Spain in 1970.

HMS Beverley (H-64)

June 1894

* p/p
* o/a

HMS Barfleur (1892)

*16 ref|5 ship's company, 1 training officer, 10 URNU students.|group=N
*12

HMS B2 was one of 11 B-class submarines built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

*1 shaft
*1 × 2-cylinder steam engine
*4 × rectangular boilers

pennant number: S05/Z27

HMS Barfleur was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Thomas Slade on the lines of the 100-gun ship Royal William, and launched at Chatham Dockyard on 30 July 1768, at a cost of £49,222. In about 1780, she had another eight guns added to her quarterdeck, making her a 98-gun ship; she possessed a crew of approximately 750. Her design class sisters were the Prince George, Princess Royal, and Formidable. She was a ship of long service and many battles.In June 1773, King George III reviewed the British fleet at Spithead. Barfleur, under Captain Edward Vernon, was on this occasion the flagship of the fleet commander, Vice-Admiral Thomas Pye.She distinguished herself as the flagship of Rear-Admiral Samuel Hood on the Leeward Islands station during the American War of Independence. Under Captain John Knight, she was flagship at the indecisive action of 28 April 1781 off Martinique against the French fleet of Rear-Admiral Comte de Grasse, at which Barfleur lost five men killed.She next took part in the battles of the Chesapeake, St. Kitts and the Saintes. At the Battle of the Chesapeake on 5 September 1781, under Captain Alexander Hood (later Lord Bridport), she was again the flag of Samuel Hood, second in command to Rear-Admiral Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves. The battle was lost to the French under de Grasse, which had a profound effect on the outcome of the American war.She saw further action in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, taking part in Richard Howe's victory at the Glorious First of June as the flagship of Rear-Admiral (W) George Bowyer, with Captain Cuthbert Collingwood in 1794. In this battle she engaged the French Indomptable on 29 May and took a major part in the general action of 1 June, with a total loss of 9 killed and 25 wounded.She later saw action under Lord Bridport at the Battle of Groix. In 1797 she was with Admiral Sir John Jervis at the Battle of Cape St Vincent.In 1805, under Captain George Martin, she was part of the Channel Fleet. Her final battle was fought in a squadron under Admiral Sir Robert Calder at the Battle of Cape Finisterre on 22 July 1805 in the attack on the combined Franco-Spanish fleet off Ushant. The action was fought in heavy weather, part of the time in thick fog. The master and four others were killed and Lieutenant Peter Fisher and six others were wounded.In 1807 under Captain Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke she served in the Channel Fleet. In 1808, under Capt. D. M'Cleod, she served as the flagship of Rear-Admiral Charles Tyler and was engaged in the blockade of Lisbon and the escort to Plymouth of the first division of the Russian squadron commanded by Vice-Admiral Dmitry Senyavin. In 1811, under Captain Sir Thomas Hardy, she was engaged in actions in support of the army under Lord Wellington at Lisbon.After the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars, Barfleur spent some years in ordinary at Chatham, and was finally broken up there in January 1819.

HMS Avenger was a wooden paddle wheel frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1845 and wrecked with heavy loss of life in 1847.

*90 guns:
*Gundeck: 26 × 32-pounders
*Middle gundeck: 26 × 18-pounders
*Upper gundeck: 26 × 9-pounders
*Quarterdeck: 10 × 6-pounders
*Forecastle: 2 × 6-pounders

HMS Berwick (1902)

fully loaded

December 1941

*Deck:
*Conning Tower:

*Mediterranean
*Libya
*Sicily
*Adriatic
*Southern France

Unknown

June 1909

formerly Arcadia

HMS Belleisle

HMS Blanche (1867)

Sails

*1 × 68-pounder pivot gun
*1 × 10-inch gun
*4 × 32-pounder guns

USS BYMS-203

p/p

HMS Attacker (D02) was an Attacker-class escort aircraft carrier that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War.Converted from the merchantman Steel Artisan, she was commissioned by the United States Navy on 30 September 1942 as USS Barnes (CVE-7), a Bogue-class escort carrier, but simultaneously transferred under the Lend-Lease program to the United Kingdom and commissioned by the Royal Navy as HMS Attacker the same day.Attacker served throughout the war, first as a convoy escort in the Atlantic.

HMS Beagle was a B-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy (RN) around 1930. Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1936. During World War II, the ship spent the bulk of the war on escort duty, participating in the Norwegian Campaign, the Battle of the Atlantic, Operation Torch, the Russian Convoys, and in the Normandy landings before accepting the surrender of the German garrison of the Channel Islands the day after the formal German surrender on 9 May together with another ship. One exception to this pattern was when she helped to evacuate British soldiers and civilians during the Battle of France in 1940. During the war, Beagle assisted in sinking one German submarine and claimed to have shot down two German aircraft. Redundant after the war, she was broken up for scrap in 1946.

*4 × 2pdrs
*2 × 12 in. mortars

HMS Blazer (P279)

Transferred to United States Navy

Wrecked on Waterhouse Island in Bass Strait

*Atlantic 1943
*South France 1944
*Salerno 1943
*Adriatic 1944

HMS Audacious was the lead ship of the Audacious-class ironclads built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. They were designed as second-class ironclads suitable for use on foreign stations and the ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station. She was decommissioned in 1894 and hulked in 1902 for use as a training ship. The ship was towed to Scapa Flow after the beginning of the First World War to be used as a receiving ship and then to Rosyth after the war ended. Audacious was sold for scrap in 1929.

* forward
* aft

HMS Belliqueux (1758)

At anchor in Harwich harbour (as of 2014)

HMS Attacker (D02)

yes

HMS Birmingham

HMS Belfast

At anchor in Harwich harbour

HMS Benbow

armoured cruiser

Mrs. James A. Gallagher

HMS Berwick was one of 10 Monmouth-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was assigned to the 2nd Cruiser Squadron of the Channel Fleet upon completion in 1903 and was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1906. She accidentally rammed and sank a British destroyer in 1908. Berwick was refitted in 1908–09 before she was transferred to the 4th Cruiser Squadron on the North America and West Indies Station later that year.She captured a German merchant ship shortly after World War I began. The ship patrolled for German commerce raiders and escorted convoys for the war. Berwick was assigned to the 8th Light Cruiser Squadron in 1919 before she was paid off and sold for scrap in 1920.

HMS BYMS-2203

HMS Beaver was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the ninth Royal Navy ship to be named Beaver, after the mammal of the same name.

Sir William Hotham , British naval officer who was commanding officer of at the Battle of Camperdown in 1797

HMS Blake was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 August 1808 at Deptford and named in honour of Admiral Robert Blake.On 26 September 1812, Blake and Franchise provided naval support to a land attack, at night, on Tarragona by troops under the command of General Joaquín Ibáñez Cuevas, Baron d'Eroles. The attack was successful, and resulted, inter alia, in the capture of several small vessels. The Spanish troops suffered three men killed and eight wounded; the British had no casualties whatsoever. Captain Edward Codrington, of Blake, wrote to Baron d'Eroles and to Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, that the officers and crew declined any prize money from the action, in favour of the Spanish troops, "in admiration of the valour and the discipline which they shewed upon the occasion."

HMS Begonia

HMS Betony (K274)

*120 tons standard
*160 tons full load

HMS Basilisk was a first-class paddle sloop of the Royal Navy, built at the Woolwich Dockyard and launched on 22 August 1848.
July 1852

See HMS Bellerophon for other ships of the same name.HMS Bellerophon was a dreadnought of the Royal Navy. She was the lead ship of the Bellerophon class, and the fourth Royal Navy vessel to bear the name of the mythic Greek hero. Built at the Royal Dockyard in Portsmouth and completed in 1909, Bellerophon first joined the 1st Battle Squadron and then upon the outbreak of war joined the 4th Battle Squadron where she remained until 1919. She was present at the Battle of Jutland where she fired sixty-two 12 inch rounds and received no damage. With the end of the war she was placed in the Reserve Fleet and sold for scrap in 1921 before being taken to the breakers two years later.

Elk

*1 × 3"/50 caliber gun mount
*2 × 20 mm guns
*2 × depth charge projectors

two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts

HMS Beaver (1911)

HMM5

*4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX
*4 × QF 2-pounder Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
*2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
*2 × torpedo tubes
*110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks

Portugal

HMS Aylmer was a Buckley class destroyer escort that served in the Royal Navy as a Captain class frigate during World War II. The ship was named after Matthew Aylmer, commander of HMS Royal Katherine at the Battle of Barfleur in 1692 during the War of the Grand Alliance.Originally destined for the US Navy, HMS Aylmer was provisionally given the name USS Harmon (later this name was reassigned to USS Harmon (DE-678), however the delivery was diverted to the Royal Navy before the launch.

HMS Audacious was the lead ship of the Audacious-class ironclads built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. They were designed as second-class ironclads suitable for use on foreign stations and the ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station. She was decommissioned in 1894 and hulked in 1902 for use as a training ship. The ship was towed to Scapa Flow after the beginning of the First World War to be used as a receiving ship and then to Rosyth after the war ended.

Pennant number C35

HMS Blazer is an Archer-class patrol vessel of the Royal Navy. She was built by Vosper Thornycroft. She is just over 20 metres long and 5.8 metres wide and powered by two Rolls-Royce turbo engines. The ship is based at HMS Nelson, the shore base in Portsmouth and was commissioned in 1988.She has four crew plus a commanding officer, and sails with a training officer and a complement of students. She is attached to the Southampton University Royal Naval Unit (SURNU), under the command of Lt Joseph Currin RN. Wider tasking includes: officer cadet training with Britannia Royal Naval College; VVIP visits; security patrols.In 1993 she was involved in a fishing incident with French trawlers at the port of Cherbourg.

HMS Banshee (1894)

Broken up, September 1772

HMS Beatrice

HMS Blackmore (pennant number L43) was an escort destroyer of the Type II Hunt class. The Royal Navy ordered Blackmore's construction three months after the outbreak of the Second World War. A. Stephen & Sons laid down her keel at their Glasgow yard on 10 February 1941, as Admiralty Job Number J1479. The ship was adopted by the civil community of Langport, Somerset after a successful Warship Week campaign. The ship was sold to the Royal Danish Navy and renamed HDMS Esbern Snare.

HMS Blackwood (F78)

HMS Blean (L47)

HMS Battler (D18) was an Attacker-class escort aircraft carrier that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War.She was commissioned by the United States Navy as USS Altamaha (CVE-6), a Bogue-class escort carrier, and transferred under the Lend-Lease program to the United Kingdom and commissioned by the Royal Navy as HMS Battler the same day.

*Fisgard in 1904
*Imperieuse in 1914

HMS Blake (1808)

HMS Beagle

Altamaha

HMS Berwick was one of 10 Monmouth-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was assigned to the 2nd Cruiser Squadron of the Channel Fleet upon completion in 1903 and was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1906. She accidentally rammed and sank a British destroyer in 1908.

*3 × boilers
* 2 × turbines, each
* 2 shafts

HMS Bahamas (K503)

* petrol
* electric

*1 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon on fo'c'sle
*3 × General purpose machine gunsref|When operational and not in URNU role.|group=N

Sold to the Royal Danish Navy in 1954 and renamed Esben Snare. Scrapped in 1966.

HMS Basilisk

First-class paddle sloop

HMS Belmont

The Queen's Walk, London, SE1 2JH

HMS Blanche was a 1760-ton, 6-gun Eclipse-class wooden screw sloop built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1860s by Chatham Dockyard.She was sent to the Australia Station in January 1868, arriving in April 1868. She undertook a punitive action against Solomon Island natives in September 1869. During 1870, she joined in the search for the schooner Daphne, which was unsuccessful. Under the command of Captain Cortland Simpson, she undertook a survey of Rabaul's Harbour in 1872.

Sold 1 December 1921; renamed Lady Cynthia; broken up 1957

Beckford (1984-)

HMS Belliqueux

USS Barnes

Pennant number: K66

HMS Benbow was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Brent of Rotherhithe and launched on 3 February 1813.In 1840 Benbow saw action in the bombardment of the city of Acre under the command of Admiral Robert Stopford.

HMS Bangor is a Sandown-class minehunter commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1999. She is named after the Northern Ireland seaside town of the same name, and the second Royal Navy vessel to bear the name.

HMS Beaver

Sold 20 June 1947 to Mr. John J. Witto of Staten Island, N.Y. and broken up for scrap

Sold to theRoyal Danish Navyin 1954 and renamed Esben Snare. Scrapped in 1966.

Coal hulk from August 1859

Sold for scrap, September 1886

Sail

HMCS Elk was an armed yacht serving with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. Prior to service with the Royal Canadian Navy, the ship was named Arcadia. She was used initially as a patrol vessel, but later saw use as a training and guard ship for submarines on the east coast. Following the war, Elk was sold for commercial use, renamed Grand Manan III and used as a short-haul passenger ferry before being broken up in 1968.

HMS Aphis

*1 × Foden diesel
*2 × Paxman 12YHAX 550hp Diesels

HMS Bermuda was an 18-gun Bermuda sloop of the Royal Navy.Bermuda was built in Bermuda of Bermuda cedar in 1805, as the lead ship of her class. The Bermudas were modified versions of the Dasher class of 1797, and eventually consisted of six ships. She was launched in 1805, and commissioned in October that year under the command of William Henry Byam, from Busy, Halifax. She only spent three years in service before being wrecked on Memory Rock, Little Bermuda on 22 April 1808. All the crew were saved and Captain Byam went on to command HMS Opossum.

Sold into Merchant service February 1947

HMS Bee

Beckford

HMS Barnstaple was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I.She served as Lady Cynthia after major modifications as a coastal steamship with the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia, Canada from 1925 to 1957.

HMS Blackmore (L43)

Sold, 1819

Battler

*Geared turbines
*two shafts
*2,000 shp

HMS Beckford (P3104)

HMS HOST logo.png

Broken up at Chatham in 1882

* 1 × 4-inch BL Mk.IX single gun
* 2 × .50 cal machine gun
* 2 × Lewis .303 cal machine gun
* 2 × Mk.II depth charge throwers
* 2 × depth charge rails with 40 depth charges
* originally fitted with minesweeping gear, later removed

*90 guns:
*Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders
*Middle gundeck: 30 × 18-pounders
*Upper gundeck: 30 × 12-pounders
*Forecastle: 2 × 9-pounders
*98 guns:
*Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders
*Middle gundeck: 30 × 18-pounders
*Upper gundeck: 30 × 12-pounders
*Quarterdeck: 8 × 12-pounders
*Forecastle: 2 × 9-pounders

Broken up, 1819

United States

"The Brum"

*2-cylinder oscillating steam engine
*Paddle wheels

HMS Begonia (K66)

HMS Bee (1915)

November 1846

Atlantic 1942-1945, Salerno 1943, Indian Ocean.

Wrecked onWaterhouse IslandinBass Strait

Typically between 170 & 180

HMS Black Prince was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Black Prince class of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 March 1816 at Woolwich Dockyard.In 1848 Black Prince became a prison ship at Chatham, and she was broken up in 1855.

HMS Bann

HMS Benbow was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Brent of Rotherhithe and launched on 3 February 1813.In 1840 Benbow saw action in the bombardment of the city of Acre under the command of Admiral Robert Stopford. At the height of the battle either Benbow or the naval steamer HMS Gorgon fired the shell that destroyed Acre's powder magazine, causing an explosion that greatly weakened the city's defences.Benbow was used for harbour service from February 1848 until August 1859, when she was converted to be used as a coal hulk. In 1892, after 79 years of service, she was sold out of the Navy, and was broken up in 1895 at Castle, Woolwich.

HMS Bermuda

A. Stephen & Sons Ltd.

*COGOG gas turbines, 2 shafts
*4 Rolls-Royce producing

HMS Berwick (1805)

*1 × 12-pounder gun
*2 × torpedo tubes

USS Hotham

wooden screw sloop

never

HMS Beagle was a B-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy (RN) around 1930. Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1936.

Tower Hill station

*Belt:
*Bulkheads:
*Battery:

HMS Aylmer was a Buckley class destroyer escort that served in the Royal Navy as a Captain class frigate during World War II. The ship was named after Matthew Aylmer, commander of HMS Royal Katherine at the Battle of Barfleur in 1692 during the War of the Grand Alliance.Originally destined for the US Navy, HMS Aylmer was provisionally given the name USS Harmon (later this name was reassigned to USS Harmon (DE-678), however the delivery was diverted to the Royal Navy before the launch. Commanding Officers were Lt Cdr A.D.P.Campbell RN, Cdr B.W.Taylor RN (Senior Officer 5th Escort Group) 30 August 1944 and Lt Cdr W.L.Smith RNR February 1945.HMS Aylmer was adopted by the Boy's Own Paper. The May 1945 issue has pictures of HMS Aylmer in the graving dock in Liverpool after she had rammed and sunk the U-1051 off Anglesey. In the May 1946 issue C.J.Olivant (the author of the article) describes the war service of HMS Aylmer.She was stationed in Belfast for the duration of her Wartime service with the 5th Escort Group.

Hunt class minesweeper (1916), Aberdare sub-class

Depot ship in 1902; training hulk 1906; receiving ship in 1914; storeship in 1920.

*Designed: 1,001(24/94) bm
*As built: 1,031 bmref|She was built 5 inches greater in the beam than designed.|group=Note

* Radar Type 1007 I-Band
* Sonar Type 2093

HMS BYMS-2203 (J 1003) was a YMS-class auxiliary motor minesweeper originally built for the United States Navy during World War II. Upon completion she was transferred to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease. She was returned to the U.S. Navy after conclusion of the war, and struck soon after. She was never commissioned in the U.S. Navy.She was laid down 15 January 1942 as YMS-203 by the Hiltebrant Dry Dock Co. of Kingston, New York.

November 1912

HMS B2

*2 × twin, 10 × single BL 6-inch Mk VII guns
*10 × single QF 12-pounder 12 cwt guns
*3 × QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns
*2 × single 18-inch torpedo tubes

*Main belt: 4.5 inches
*Main turrets: Up to 4 inches
*Decks over magazines: 3 inches
*Decks over machinery: 2 inches
*Bulkheads: 2.5 inches

Harding, Deptford Dockyard

HMS Barfleur was a predreadnought second-class battleship of the Royal Navy. She was part of the two-ship Centurion class, designed for long-range patrolling of the United Kingdom's far-flung empire. She mainly saw service in the Mediterranean and Home Fleet, along with Service at China Station, where she participated in ending the Boxer Rebellion. Her white painted hull had a curiously blue hue, leading to her nickname of the "Farbluer".

Pennant number: M109

Full rigged ship

* SeaFox mine disposal system
* Diver-placed explosive charges

*
*12 × Yarrow boilers

Converted to Q-Ship at Barry Docks

*1 × 16-cylinder Vickers petrol engine
*1 × electric motor

returned to the USN 1946

HMS Bee was an Insect class gunboat of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 December 1915. This class are also known as "Large China Gunboats".Initially built for service on the River Danube, after World War I the Insects were transported to China and served on the Yangtze River. In 1920, Bee became the flagship of the Yangtze patrol.On 12 December 1937, Bee, along with Ladybird, became involved in the Panay incident and came under fire from a Japanese artillery unit near Wuhu on the Yangtze.

*1,050 tons standard;
*1,490 tons full load

after 1716 rebuild

*10 × BL /45 Mk X guns in five twin Vickers BIX mountings
*16 × BL /50 Mk VII guns in single mounts and casemates
*4 × QF 3 pdr [1.85"/50 ] in single mounts
*3 × 18 in Whitehead torpedoes

HMS Bellerophon (1907)

*1 × 40 mm anti-aircraft gun
*2 × 20 mm anti aircraft guns

HMS Banshee

April 1915

HMS Beckford

HMS Barfleur was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 10 August 1697.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford, relaunching on 27 June 1716. She took part in the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1719, and then served during the War of 1739–48, including the Battle of Toulon in 1744, before being paid off in 1745. However, the Barfleur was reduced to an 80-gun third rate in 1755 and served throughout the Seven Years' War, prior to being hulked in 1764, and eventually broken up in 1783.

April 1806

Pennant number: D86

*1 × 3"/50 caliber guns
*2 × 20 mm guns
*2 × depth charge projectors

HMS Black Prince (1816)

HMS Birmingham was a Type 42 destroyer laid down by Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, at Birkenhead on 28 March 1972, launched on 30 July 1973 by Lady Empson, wife of Sir Derek Empson and commissioned on 3 December 1976. She was named for the city of Birmingham, England."The Brum" spent much of her useful life as Fleet Contingency Ship and spent considerable time in the post-Falklands conflict patrol role. In 1984 she patrolled the Falklands and acted as a radar picket ship along with the frigates Broadsword and Ajax. In 1985 she took part in Standing Naval Force Mediterranean, calling at Gibraltar, Palma de Mallorca, Naples, & Messina. On completion of de-ammunitioning at Rosyth and being sent for a successful refit at Rosyth dockyard, she returned to Portsmouth in 1988 for sea trials and re-acceptance to the fleet. Commanded by Roy Clare, now Director of the Maritime Museum in London, her first deployment post-refit was a tour to the Persian Gulf region, returning in March 1989.Birmingham paid off at Portsmouth on 10 December 1999. In early January 2000, and under her own power, she sailed to Devonport where, for the next two months, she was stripped of all her usable equipment. She was eventually towed back to Portsmouth in May 2000 where she was sold for scrap and left Portsmouth under tow for Spain on 20 October 2000.

Newport News SB. Co., Newport News, Virginia

Robert Clive

(Museum ship)

at on the surface

October 1870

HMS Blean

HMS Bee was an Insect class gunboat of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 December 1915. This class are also known as "Large China Gunboats".Initially built for service on the River Danube, after World War I the Insects were transported to China and served on the Yangtze River. In 1920, Bee became the flagship of the Yangtze patrol.On 12 December 1937, Bee, along with Ladybird, became involved in the Panay incident and came under fire from a Japanese artillery unit near Wuhu on the Yangtze. Ladybird took six shells and Bee dodged a shell as she came upon the scene.Bee was paid off in 1938 when the gunboat Scorpion, the new flagship, arrived. She was sold in Shanghai for scrap on 22 March 1939 for £5,225.

*2 × 4 inch Mk V dual purpose guns in single mounts
*8 × 40 mm Bofors AA guns in twin mounts
*21 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons in single and twin mounts

*1939:
*12 × Mk XXIII guns
*12 × Mk XVI dual purpose guns
*16 × 2-pounder (40 mm) anti-aircraft guns
*8 × AA machine guns
*6 × torpedo tubes

"Farbluer"

*Paxman Valenta 6RP200E diesels 1523 shp, diesel-electric drive, Voith Schneider Propellers, Schottel bow thrusters

Belliqueux

*Participated in:
*Battle of the Chesapeake
*Battle of St. Kitts
*Battle of the Saintes
*Battle of the Mona Passage
*Glorious First of June
*Battle of Groix
*Battle of Cape St. Vincent
*Battle of Cape Finisterre

*2 × Sea Dart surface-to-air missile launcher
*1 × Mk.8 gun

France

HMS Basilisk was a Serpent-class bomb vessel of the Royal Navy, one of ten such vessels commissioned in 1695 to support land assaults on continental ports.

HMS Bangor

HMS Blazer

HMS Avenger

*
*31 water-tube boilers

HMS Bahamas (K503) was a Colony-class frigate of the United Kingdom that served during World War II. She originally was ordered by the United States Navy as the Tacoma-class frigate USS Hotham (PF-75) and was transferred to the Royal Navy prior to completion.

Sold for scrap, 1912

Brent, Rotherhithe

The bow of a large blue warship, moored on a river, with a bridge in the background.

*Radar Type 974 navigation
*Sonar Type 174 search
*Sonar Type 162 target classification
*Sonar Type 170 targeting

HMS BYMS-2282 (J1082)

Broken up, 1783

Belliqueux was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1756.She was captured on 2 November 1758 by HMS Antelope in the Irish Sea. She was found by Antelope anchored off Ilfracombe, Antelope opened fire but the French ship surrendered without having fired a shot in return. The crew of 500 was captured. She was taken into the Royal Navy and commissioned as the third rate HMS Belliqueux.The captains were:from November 1758: captain Thomas Saumarez, in the West Indies (quit due to ill health)from 1761: captain Richard Edwards, in the Mediterranean.Belliqueux was broken up in September 1772.

*Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
*Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
*QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns, 10 × 32-pounder carronades
*Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns, 2 × 32-pounder carronades
*Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

San Diego Marine Construction Co., San Diego, California

HMS Aphis was a Royal Navy Insect-class gunboat. She was built by Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, launched on 15 September 1915 and completed in November 1915. She was based in Port Said at the beginning of World War I, served in Romania and then the China Station until 1940. All of her fighting service was in the Mediterranean, taking part in the invasion of Pantelleria and landings in the south of France, returning briefly to the Pacific in 1945. She was scrapped at Singapore in 1947. Her class was intended for shallow, fast flowing rivers and they also proved suitable for inshore operations when her relatively heavy weaponry could be used to support Army operations.In February 1942 after a successful Warship Week National Savings campaign, Aphis was adopted by the civil communities of Warminster and Westbury in Wiltshire.

pennant number: L43

*4 × 1 – 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns
*2 × 1 – QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk II AA guns
*2 × 4 – torpedo tubes
*20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers

HMS Barbara

HMS Bigbury Bay

full load

HMS Black Swan

* 1 × 30mm DS30M Mk2 gun
* 2 × Miniguns
* 3 × General purpose machine guns

Steve Johnson

Torpedoed and sunk byon 11 December 1942 11 miles north-west ofOran.

HMS Bermuda (1805)

HMS Blast

*2 × steam turbines
*2 × boilers
*1 × shaft

Wrecked on theSorelle Rocks,Maltaon 20 December 1847

*2-cylinder direct-acting steam engines
*paddle wheels

HMS Belfast berthed in the Pool of London; Tower Bridge can be seen behind.

On a Field Per fess Red and Black, a gridiron Gold

HMS Barfleur was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 10 August 1697.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford, relaunching on 27 June 1716. She took part in the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1719, and then served during the War of 1739–48, including the Battle of Toulon in 1744, before being paid off in 1745.

*3 × 40 mm Bofors guns
*2 × Limbo Mark 10 anti-submarine mortars
*2 × twin torpedo tubes

HMS Birmingham (D86)

HMS Belfast (C35)

Steam turbines, 1 shaft,

*4 × Admiralty oil-fired 3-drum boilers
*4 × Parsons single reduction geared steam turbines

Yarrow-type boilers, Vertical triple-expansion engines, 2 shafts, 2,200 ihp

See HMS Bellerophon for other ships of the same name.HMS Bellerophon was a dreadnought of the Royal Navy. She was the lead ship of the Bellerophon class, and the fourth Royal Navy vessel to bear the name of the mythic Greek hero. Built at the Royal Dockyard in Portsmouth and completed in 1909, Bellerophon first joined the 1st Battle Squadron and then upon the outbreak of war joined the 4th Battle Squadron where she remained until 1919.

HMSHost is a highway and airport food-service company, a subsidiary of the Italian company Autogrill S.p.A.. As of 2014, Steve Johnson was the CEO of HMSHost.

Sold into civilian service, 22 July 1946

Barque rig

HMS Avenger (1845)

HMS Berwick

Lynx HMA8

*2 × hangars
*1 × catapult

HMS Blanche was the second of two Blonde-class scout cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She led the 1st Destroyer Flotilla from completion until 1912 and was then briefly transferred to the 4th Destroyer Flotilla before the ship was assigned to the 3rd Battle Squadron in 1913. During World War I, Blanche was assigned to several different battleship squadrons of the Grand Fleet. She was present at, but did not fight in, the Battle of Jutland in mid-1916. The ship was converted into a minelayer in early 1917 and made 16 sorties to lay mines during the war. Blanche was paid off in 1919 and sold for scrap in 1921.

*3 × single /50 AA guns
* 2 × twin 40 mm guns
* 9 × single 20 mm
* 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
* 8 × Y gun depth charge projectors
* 2 × depth charge racks

*Hostibus hostis
*

de-commissioned Nov 1916

IWM

HMS Berschermer (1799)

* standard
* full load

HMS BYMS-2026 (J826)

*10 × 9-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns
*4 × rifled muzzle-loading 64-pounder guns

*1 × QF 4 inch forward
*QF 12-pounder aft
*2 × twin 0.303 inch machine guns

HMS Birmingham was a Type 42 destroyer laid down by Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, at Birkenhead on 28 March 1972, launched on 30 July 1973 by Lady Empson, wife of Sir Derek Empson and commissioned on 3 December 1976. She was named for the city of Birmingham, England."The Brum" spent much of her useful life as Fleet Contingency Ship and spent considerable time in the post-Falklands conflict patrol role.

HMS BYMS-2282

HMS Belfast is a museum ship, originally a Royal Navy light cruiser, permanently moored in London on the River Thames and operated by the Imperial War Museum.Construction of Belfast, the first Royal Navy ship to be named after the capital city of Northern Ireland, and one of ten Town-class cruisers, began in December 1936. She was launched on St Patrick's Day, 17 March 1938. Commissioned in early August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, Belfast was initially part of the British naval blockade against Germany. In November 1939 Belfast struck a German mine and spent more than two years undergoing extensive repairs. Belfast returned to action in November 1942 with improved firepower, radar equipment and armour. Belfast saw action escorting Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union during 1943, and in December 1943 played an important role in the Battle of North Cape, assisting in the destruction of the German warship Scharnhorst. In June 1944 Belfast took part in Operation Overlord supporting the Normandy landings. In June 1945 Belfast was redeployed to the Far East to join the British Pacific Fleet, arriving shortly before the end of the Second World War. Belfast saw further combat action in 1950–52 during the Korean War and underwent an extensive modernisation between 1956 and 1959. A number of further overseas commissions followed before Belfast entered reserve in 1963.In 1967, efforts were initiated to avert Belfast's expected scrapping and preserve her as a museum ship. A joint committee of the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum and the Ministry of Defence was established, and reported in June 1968 that preservation was practical. In 1971 the government decided against preservation, prompting the formation of the private HMS Belfast Trust to campaign for her preservation. The efforts of the Trust were successful, and the government transferred the ship to the Trust in July 1971. Brought to London, she was moored on the River Thames near Tower Bridge in the Pool of London, in Southwark, London, England. Opened to the public in October 1971, Belfast became a branch of the Imperial War Museum in 1978. A popular tourist attraction, Belfast receives over a quarter of a million visitors per year. As a branch of a national museum and part of the National Historic Fleet, Belfast is supported by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, by admissions income, and by the museum's commercial activities. The ship was closed to visitors following an accident in November 2011, and re-opened on 18 May 2012.

HMS Barnstaple (1919)

*Belt:
*Decks:
*Barbettes:
*Turrets:
*Conning tower:
*Bulkheads:

returned to the U.S. Navy, 12 November 1946

HMS Audacious (1869)

HMS Blake was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 August 1808 at Deptford and named in honour of Admiral Robert Blake.On 26 September 1812, Blake and Franchise provided naval support to a land attack, at night, on Tarragona by troops under the command of General Joaquín Ibáñez Cuevas, Baron d'Eroles. The attack was successful, and resulted, inter alia, in the capture of several small vessels.

*4 × QF 4 inch Mark XVI on 2 twin mounting HA/LA Mk.XIX
*4 × 40 mm Bofors A/A on 2 twin mounts Mk.V
*4 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on 2 twin mounts Mk.V
*1 × Hedgehog 24 barrel A/S projector
*2 rails and 4 throwers for 50 depth charges

deep load

steam triple expansion

HMS Blanche was the second of two Blonde-class scout cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She led the 1st Destroyer Flotilla from completion until 1912 and was then briefly transferred to the 4th Destroyer Flotilla before the ship was assigned to the 3rd Battle Squadron in 1913. During World War I, Blanche was assigned to several different battleship squadrons of the Grand Fleet. She was present at, but did not fight in, the Battle of Jutland in mid-1916.

HMS Baralong, also known as HMS Wyandra was a Royal Navy warship that was active during World War I. She was a "Special Service Vessel" (also known as a Q-ship) whose function was to act as a decoy, inviting attack by a U-boat in order to engage and (if possible) destroy it.

HMS Beatrice was a 98-ton displacement, schooner launched in 1860 at Newhaven.She was acquired by the Royal Navy and the Colony of South Australia on 27 September 1862 and served on the Australia Station and was used as a survey ship, and in this role she surveyed areas of the north coast of Australia, assisted the 1866 expedition of John McKinlay in the Northern Territory and surveyed the South Australian coast.In 1880, she was purchased outright by the Colony of South Australia, where she was converted into a hulk in 1881 as a mooring marker for the mail steamers at Glenelg. Later she was moved in 1888 to Semaphore as a lightship. She was sold in 1890 to private owners. Re-rigged she was stranded near Port Lincoln on 4 February 1897 and after being refloating was rebuilt. On a voyage to new owners on 14 July 1917 at Hobart she encountered heavy weather and became stranded at Tamar Heads, Tasmania.While transporting a load of timber from Hobart for Melbourne she was wrecked off the south-eastern side of Waterhouse Island in Bass Strait on 9 April 1921. Her crew was saved and her gear salvaged.Beatrice Islets in Nepean Bay on Kangaroo Island are named after HMS Beatrice.

Denmark

pennant number K606

HMS Attacker (D02) was an Attacker-class escort aircraft carrier that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War.Converted from the merchantman Steel Artisan, she was commissioned by the United States Navy on 30 September 1942 as USS Barnes (CVE-7), a Bogue-class escort carrier, but simultaneously transferred under the Lend-Lease program to the United Kingdom and commissioned by the Royal Navy as HMS Attacker the same day.Attacker served throughout the war, first as a convoy escort in the Atlantic. After further conversion by the Royal Navy in October 1943 as an assault carrier, the ship was busily engaged in the Mediterranean and later the Pacific theatres of war. In late August, Attacker witnessed the Japanese surrender of Malaya in Penang, as part of Operation Zipper.

*Arctic 1943
*North Cape 1943
*Normandy 1944
*Korea 1950–52

*
* full

* 6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX
* AAA - 2 × 4 12.7mm Vickers, 2 × 20mm
* 6 Thornycroft depth charge throwers

*PG-183
*PF-75

Belliqueux was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1756.She was captured on 2 November 1758 by HMS Antelope in the Irish Sea. She was found by Antelope anchored off Ilfracombe, Antelope opened fire but the French ship surrendered without having fired a shot in return. The crew of 500 was captured.

Modified

HMS Beatrice (1860)
HMS Beatrice was a 98-ton displacement, schooner launched in 1860 at Newhaven.She was acquired by the Royal Navy and the Colony of South Australia on 27 September 1862 and served on the Australia Station and was used as a survey ship, and in this role she surveyed areas of the north coast of Australia, assisted the 1866 expedition of John McKinlay in the Northern Territory and surveyed the South Australian coast.In 1880, she was purchased outright by the Colony of South Australia, where she was converted into a hulk in 1881 as a mooring marker for the mail steamers at Glenelg.

Pounds Marine Shipping

Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942, 1944.

HMS Baralong, also known as HMS Wyandra was a Royal Navy warship that was active during World War I. She was a "Special Service Vessel" (also known as a Q-ship) whose function was to act as a decoy, inviting attack by a U-boat in order to engage and (if possible) destroy it. Baralong was successful on two occasions in her career, sinking U-27 in August 1915, and U-41 in September 1915; however both these actions caused controversy, particularly the first, being referred to as the Baralong incidents.
Armstrong Whitworth & Co, Low Walker

Plessey Group

HMS Bermuda was an 18-gun Bermuda sloop of the Royal Navy.Bermuda was built in Bermuda of Bermuda cedar in 1805, as the lead ship of her class. The Bermudas were modified versions of the Dasher class of 1797, and eventually consisted of six ships. She was launched in 1805, and commissioned in October that year under the command of William Henry Byam, from Busy, Halifax. She only spent three years in service before being wrecked on Memory Rock, Little Bermuda on 22 April 1808.

HDMS Esbern Snare

November 1867

Hull number: PG-68

as built

*2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
*

pennant number: L47

* 3 × Parsons turbines
* 3 × oil-fired Yarrow boilers
* 3 × shafts

The Bahamas

* 1 × SW1C or 2C radar
* 1 × Type 123A or Type 127DV sonar

anti-aircraft frigate

HMS Basilisk (1848)

Mersey Division, Royal Naval Reserve

HMCS Elk (S05)

HMS Aphis was a Royal Navy Insect-class gunboat. She was built by Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, launched on 15 September 1915 and completed in November 1915. She was based in Port Said at the beginning of World War I, served in Romania and then the China Station until 1940. All of her fighting service was in the Mediterranean, taking part in the invasion of Pantelleria and landings in the south of France, returning briefly to the Pacific in 1945. She was scrapped at Singapore in 1947.

*Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus
*

Returned to Royal Navy

Pennant number: H30

ship rigged

Never commissioned in U.S. Navy

HMS Bangor (M109)

*2 × shafts
*2 × 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines

* o/a
* p.p.

William Redding, Wapping

HMS Belleisle (1761)

HMS Dee

Broken up, 1895

HMS Barnard Castle (K694)

* single shaft
* 2 × fire tube Scotch boilers
* 1 × 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine
*

Broken up, Deptford Dockyard, 1729

Poland

HMS Battler (D18)

*2 × shafts
*2 × Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines

HMS Barfleur was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Thomas Slade on the lines of the 100-gun ship Royal William, and launched at Chatham Dockyard on 30 July 1768, at a cost of £49,222. In about 1780, she had another eight guns added to her quarterdeck, making her a 98-gun ship; she possessed a crew of approximately 750. Her design class sisters were the Prince George, Princess Royal, and Formidable.

Canada

Robert Clive (1968-1969)

max 16 knots

escort carrier

Phil Reed

HMS Basilisk (1695)

Type III

HMS Barfleur was a predreadnought second-class battleship of the Royal Navy. She was part of the two-ship Centurion class, designed for long-range patrolling of the United Kingdom's far-flung empire. She mainly saw service in the Mediterranean and Home Fleet, along with Service at China Station, where she participated in ending the Boxer Rebellion. Her white painted hull had a curiously blue hue, leading to her nickname of the "Farbluer". She was flagship of the Home Fleet from 1906 to 1907, and was scrapped in 1910. However, on her way to the scrapyard, she got jammed underneath the pylons of a drawbridge, forcing it to remain open and blocking traffic while she had to be freed.

HMS BYMS-2203 (J 1003) was a YMS-class auxiliary motor minesweeper originally built for the United States Navy during World War II. Upon completion she was transferred to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease. She was returned to the U.S. Navy after conclusion of the war, and struck soon after. She was never commissioned in the U.S. Navy.She was laid down 15 January 1942 as YMS-203 by the Hiltebrant Dry Dock Co. of Kingston, New York. She was launched on 15 January 1943 and delivered 31 August 1943 and transferred to the Royal Navy as BYMS-2203.Little is known of her war record. She sailed from the United Kingdom to Malta as a part of Convoy KMS 43 on 11 December 1943, and, at least for a time, she served in the Pacific. After USS Bangust (DE-739) had already attacked a submarine target 60 miles (97 km) of Roi in June 1944, BYMS-2203 assisted USS Greiner, USS SC-1364, and BYMS-2282 on in searching for Japanese submarine RO-11, even though, unknown at the time, Bangust’s attack had already been successful.She was returned to U.S. custody on 12 November 1946 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register, 13 December 1946. Her final fate is unknown.

HMS Barfleur (1697)

*4 × shafts
*4 × Parsons steam turbines

HMS Blanche (1909)

HMS Benbow (1813)

*2 shafts, Rolls Royce M800T diesels, 1,590 bhp

Broken up 1976

July 1808