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HMS Whaddon (L45)
HMS ''Whaddon'' (L45) was a Type I Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by Alexander Stephen & Sons of Linthouse, Govan and launched on 16 July 1940. She was laid down on 27 July 1939 and commissioned 28 February 1941. She was adopted by the civil community of Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire, as part of the Warship Week campaign in 1942.
==Service history==
On commissioning in 1941 and during 1942 she was on North Sea defence duties, before being allocated for service in the Mediterranean.
In March 1943 she sailed for the Middle East and during that year she provided cover for the allied landings in Sicily and Salerno. Towards the end of the year she operated in the Adriatic. During the following year she was again deployed in the Mediterranean and the Aegean.
On 29 September 1945 ''Whaddon'' sailed from Gibraltar to Devonport and was placed in reserve.〔Critchley, Mike, "British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers", Maritime Books: Liskeard, UK, 1982. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2, page 29〕 She was scrapped at Faslane in April 1959. It has since had a British Sea Cadet Corps unit named after it, T.S Whaddon.
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