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in 1952 and then transferred to Gare Loch to perform similar duties there. She was refitted again in Rosyth five years later and served as an accommodation ship in
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859:"HMS Woolwich (F 80)"
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99:24 May 1933
40:in May 1937
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604:Resource
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492:Type 285
486:Several
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104:Launched
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