Fleetwood Shows the Flag

Smart Ships Company marching to Foulon  Cemetery in St. Peter Port in Guernsey on October 26th 1952  to take part in the  remembrance ceremony held each year for HMS Charybdis and HMS Limbourne

Two days out on the way to Arcachon all shipshape and Bristol fashion

Winners of talent competition  in Fleetwood

Stokers enjoy  good run ashore in Aberdeen

Stokers and Seamen enjoying the sunshine  in 1952

Fleetwood docking in Rotterdam Holland taking flood relief items during the heavy flooding of UK East coast and Holland in March 1953. She returned later in the same year to the same port on a courtesy visit.

Fleetwood crew entertain the Kay sisters  in 1956

10th October 1959  She finally dropped anchor and was sold to C.W. Dorking  of Gateshead for breaking up

HMS Fleetwood  F47 |
A Grimsby Class Sloop  | Early Action in Norway  | Atlantic & Operation Torch | Fleetwood Claims  2  U/Boats | Fleetwood's History & Battle Honours | Fleetwood Gets underway again in 1946 | Fleetwood Shows the Flag  | 1936  HMS. Fleetwood Association  1959