HMS Blackwood

HMS Blackwood is the name of several British naval warships named after Vice Admiral Henry Blackwood .

• HMS Blackwood should be a 1942 for the Royal Navy in Kiel set frigate , the captain-class call, but by the US Navy as USS Austin (DE-15) was put into service.
• HMS Blackwood (K313) was the name of a captain-class frigate that was laid down in 1942 and delivered to the Royal Navy as part of the lend lease program. The ship was sunk in 1944.
• HMS Blackwood (F78) denotes a Blackwood- class frigate that was laid down in 1955 and scrapped in 1976.

Note: HMS - sometimes also written with punctuation marks as HMS - is an acronym or abbreviation for His Majesty's Ship or Her Majesty's Ship and has been the official name prefix since 1789 , which is used by all warships in the service of the British Navy lead.

literature

• JJ Colledge, Ben Warlow: Ships of the Royal Navy, The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present . Chatham Publishing, London 2006, ISBN 1-86176-281-X , pp. 41 .