HMT Bredon

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Career RN Ensign
Ordered: 15 March 1941
Laid down: 12 July 1941
Launched: 20 November 1941
Commissioned: 29 April 1942
Fate: Sunk by U-521 on 8 February 1943
Struck:
General characteristics
Displacement: 750 tonnes (1,005 tonnes deep)
Length: 155
Beam:
Draught: 12
Propulsion: One 1-SE Cylindrical Boiler
Speed:
Range:
Complement: 37 Seamen
Armament: 12 pounder HA/LA main gun, 3x 20 mm Anti Aircraft guns, 4x 0.5 in (2x2) machine guns
Motto:

His Majestys Trawler Bredon (Pennant Number T223) was a "Hill" class naval trawler that served as an anti-submarine escort trawler during the Second World War.