HMS Bradford (H72)
Navy: | Royal Navy |
Type: | Destroyer |
Class: | Town |
Pennant | H 72 |
Built by: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) |
Laid down | 20 Apr, 1918 |
Launched: | 22 Sep, 1918 |
Commissioned | 9 Oct, 1940 |
End service: | 19 Jun, 1946 |
History: | As HMS Bradford she performed escort duties in the Atlantic, including convoys to north Africa for operation Torch, from 1941 to 1943. On 3 May 1943 she was declared no longer fit for ocean escort work and was ordered decommissioned at Devonport. There, for the remainder of the war, she served as an accommodations ship. She was scrapped at Troon 19 June 1946. |