HMS  Bleasdale (L50)

Casualty List

Navy

Royal Navy

Type:

Escort destroyer

Class:

Hunt (Type III) 

Pennant:

L 50 

Built by:

Vickers Armstrong Parsons (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.):

Laid down:

31 Oct, 1940 

Launched:

23 Jul, 1941 

Commissioned:

16 Apr, 1942 

End service:

1956

History:

1942
May. Joined 1st Flotilla for Channel convoy protection duties.
July. Escorted assault craft for the Dieppe raid as part of operation Jubilee.
October. Struck a mine and repaired at Portsmouth.
November. Provided convoy escort for the TORCH landings.
1943
Channel convoy protection.
1944
May. Collided with trawler and sent to Portsmouth for repairs.
June. Provided Anti Aircraft, Anti Submarine and gunfire support off JUNO beach.
October. Transferred to 21st Flotilla for duties in North Sea.
1945
March. Refitted for modifications prior to joining the 18th Flotilla departing for Trimcomalee.
May. Passage to Mediterranean for work up with Mediterranean Fleet.
July. Passage to Trincomalee.
September. Provided support for landings on Malayan coast (operation ZIPPER)
September. Attended Japanese surrender ceremony.
Paid off into reserve at Chatham.
1946
February. Recommissioned.
1952
Paid off.
1956
Broken up.Scrapped at Blythe on 14 September 1956. 

 

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