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Five ships of the
Royal Navy
have borne the name
HMS
Foam
, a
figurative term for the sea
:
HMS
Foam
(1856)
, a wooden
Albacore
-class
gunboat
launched in 1856 and sold for breaking in 1867.
HMS
Foam
(1871)
, a composite
Ariel
-class
gunboat launched in 1871 and sold for breaking in 1887.
HMS
Foam
(1896)
, a
Thornycroft
two funnel, 30-knot destroyer (classified as a
D-class destroyer
in 1912) launched in 1896 and sold for breaking in 1914.
HMS
Foam
(1919)
, an Admiralty steel
drifter
, launched in 1919, sold in 1921, and renamed
Starwort
.
HMS
Foam
(1943)
, J405 a
Lend-Lease
Catherine
-class
minesweeper
launched in 1943 and returned to the US Navy in 1946.
See also
HMS
Northern Foam
a 655-ton trawler hired in 1939 and returned to her owners in 1945.
References
Colledge, J. J.
; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969].
Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy
(Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-86176-281-8
.
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