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3 unusual facts about HMS Partridge


HMS Partridge

The second Partridge was a 10 gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched at Plymouth Dockyard on 22 March 1822 and stranded aground off the Dutch island of Vlieland on 28 November 1824.

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Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Partridge, after the bird.

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The seventh Partridge was a P class destroyer launched at Govan on 5 August 1941 and sunk by the German submarine U-565 commanded by Wilhelm Franken in the Mediterranean on 18 December 1942.



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