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HMS ''Bideford'' was a Royal Navy sloop. She was named after the town of Bideford in Devon and was launched on 1 April 1931. ==Construction and design== The British Admiralty ordered four sloops of the new as part of the 1929 construction programme, with two each ordered from Devonport and Chatham dockyards. They were an improved version of the of the 1928 programme, which were themselves a modification of the .〔Hague 1993, pp. 6, 12, 31.〕〔Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, pp. 55–56.〕 ''Bideford'' was long overall, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was standard.〔Hague 1993, p. 32.〕 Two Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers fed two geared steam turbines which drove two propeller shafts. The machinery was rated at , giving a speed of .〔Gardiner and Chesneau 1980, p. 56.〕 The ship's main gun armament consisted of two 4-inch (102 mm) QF Mk V guns mounted fore-and-aft on the ship's centreline, with the forward gun on a High-Angle (HA) anti-aircraft mounting and the aft gun on a Low-Angle (LA) mounting, suitable only for use against surface targets. Four 3-pounder saluting guns completed the ship's gun armament.〔〔 ''Bideford'' was laid down at Devonport on 10 June 1930, launched on 1 April 1931 and completed on 27 November 1931.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Bideford (L43)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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