HMS Boadicea (H65)

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HMS Boadicea (H65) was a B-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during World War II.

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HMS Boadicea was constructed by Hawthorn Leslie and was launched on the 23rd September 1930 and completed on the 7th April 1931. She had a displacement of 1,360 tons. Her dimensions were 312' (pp), 323' (oa) by 32 1/4' by 8 1\2'. She was armed with four 4.7" guns, two two pounder pom-poms and eight 21 inch torpedo tubes. HMS Boadicea had a complement of 138.

Her earliest major engagement of the war was in support of the evacuation of the 51st Highland Division from Le Havre in June 1940. During this action she was extensively damaged and needed to return to Portsmouth for repair. During 1942 and 1943 she served on convoys to Russia and in support of Operation Torch; the invasion of North Africa.

HMS Boadicea was sunk on the 13th June 1944 while escorting a convoy of merchant ships from Milford Haven in support of the Normandy invasion. She was struck by an Hs 293 air-to-surface missile launched by a German Junkers 88; only 12 of her crew survived.

Her wreck lies 16 miles South West of Portland at 50:28:12N, 02:29:30W.

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