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    The Bittern-class sloop was a three-ship class of long-range escort vessels used in the Second World War by the Royal Navy. The Bittern class were built...
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    HMS Bittern was a Bittern-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Although the last to be completed she was the name ship of her class, replacing an earlier Bittern...
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  • seven ships of the Royal Navy USS Bittern, several ships in the United States Navy Bittern-class sloop a three-ship class of long-range escort vessels used...
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  • the name HMS Bittern, after the bird, the bittern: HMS Bittern (1796) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1796 and sold in 1833. HMS Bittern (1840) was a...
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    Second World War by the Royal Navy. They were an enlarged version of the Bittern class with an extra twin 4-inch gun mounting. They were fitted with Denny...
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    HMS Enchantress (L56) (category Bittern-class sloops)
    Enchantress (L56) was a Bittern-class sloop, built for the British Royal Navy. She was the lead ship of her class, being laid down as Bittern, but renamed as...
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    HMIS Sutlej (category Black Swan-class sloops of the Royal Indian Navy)
    HMIS Sutlej (U95) was a modified Bittern-class sloop, later known as the Black Swan class, which served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War...
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  • sloop[page needed] Grimsby-class sloop[page needed]1998 Kingfisher-class sloop[page needed] Bittern-class sloop[page needed] Egret-class sloop[page needed][page needed]...
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  • 1903, sold for breaking up in 1935. HMS Enchantress (L56) was a Bittern-class sloop launched in 1934, sold in 1945 and renamed Lady Enchantress, broken...
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    HMIS Narbada (category Black Swan-class sloops of the Royal Indian Navy)
    HMIS Narbada (U40) was a Modified Bittern class sloop, later known as the Black Swan class, which served in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during World War...
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    36th Escort Group, commanding from the Bittern-class sloop Stork. The escort group which consisted of two sloops (HMS Stork and Deptford) and six corvettes...
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    HMS Stork (L81) (category Bittern-class sloops)
    HMS Stork (L81) was a Bittern-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was active during the Second World War, serving in convoy escort groups, and was a successful...
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    Sixth-rate, corvette, and sloop classes of the Royal Navy. During the Age of Sail, warships were divided into ranks or classes. The English Royal Navy adopted...
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    mounting) Black Swan-class sloops Egret-class sloops Bittern-class sloop (modified) Grimsby-class sloop (modified) Bay-class frigates River-class frigates (part...
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    HMS Ibis Bittern-class sloop: HMS Enchantress Grimsby-class sloop: HMS Aberdeen Banff-class sloops: HMS Hartland & Walney Shoreham-class sloop: HMS Weston...
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    The Kingfisher class was a class of nine patrol sloops of the British Royal Navy built in three groups of three each during the 1930s, that saw service...
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  • in 1926 Mendoza-class destroyer ARA Tucumán (1928) - Built for the Argentine Navy. Bittern-class sloop escort vessel - (1936) Grom-class destroyer (1937)...
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  • HMS Stork (1916) was an R-class destroyer, launched in 1916, sold for breaking up in 1927. HMS Stork (L81) was a Bittern-class sloop, launched in 1936, broken...
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    18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop: HMS Belette, HMS Raleigh 18-gun Bittern-class sloop: HMS Plover 14-gun La Brave-class brig-sloop: HMS Insolent 7 × Gunboats...
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  • sloop 'Bittern' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022. "British sloop 'Cyane' (1796)". Threedecks. Retrieved 12 January 2022. "British sloop...
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    The Rosario class was a class of seven screw-sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1860 and 1862. A further six vessels were...
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    (Commander Frederick "Johnnie" Walker), usually composed of two Bittern-class sloops (HMS Stork and Deptford) and seven corvettes (HMS Convolvulus, Gardenia...
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  • Boreas and Eridge, and a second escort group from OG 70, comprising the sloop HMS Deptford, destroyers Nestor and Encounter, and the corvette Convolvulus;...
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  • before being transferred to the corvette HMS Marigold, and then the Bittern-class sloop HMS Stork and landed at Liverpool. "SS City of Oxford (1926)". www...
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  • HMS Termagant (1796) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
    HMS Termagant was an 18-gun sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1796 and sold in 1819. Termagant performed convoy duty during the French Revolutionary...
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    escorted Convoy UGS 14. The Bittern-class sloop HMS Stork was one of the sixteen warships that escorted Convoy GUS 25. The Flower-class corvette HMS Jonquil...
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  • scuttled in the Second Naval Battle of Narvik. HMS Bittern  Royal Navy 30 April 1940 A Bittern-class sloop that was sunk by German aircraft at Namsos. 64°28′N...
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    HMS Bittern was a Vickers three-funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates. She was the fourth ship to...
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    HMIS Godavari (category Black Swan-class sloops of the Royal Indian Navy)
    Mason, Geoffrey B. (10 June 2011). "HMIS Godavari (U 52) - Modified Bittern-class Sloop: including Convoy Escort Movements". Service Histories of Royal Navy...
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    to the Free French Navy. The Hunts were modelled on the 1938 escort sloop Bittern, a 262-foot (80 m) ship of 1,190 tons with 3,300 shp (2,500 kW) on geared...
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