HMS Albrighton (L12)

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Navy: Royal Navy
Type: Escort destroyer
Class: Hunt (Type III) 
Pennant: L 12 
Built by: John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Laid down: 20 Nov, 1940 
Launched: 11 Oct, 1941 
Commissioned: 22 Feb, 1942 
End service: Sold for scrap to Eisen & Metall in 1969.
History: Sold to West Germany Navy on 14 May 1959 (like HMS Eggesford), where she served as the frigate Raule F 217.The ships bell is reported as displayed at the Albrighton Parish Church,Shropshire. 

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