HMS Goldfinch

HMS Goldfinch

Three ships of the Royal Navy and one shore establishment have borne the name HMS "Goldfinch", probably after the bird the European Goldfinch:

hips

*HMS "Goldfinch" was an "Albacore" class wooden screw gunboat launched on 1856-02-02 and broken up 1869.
*HMS "Goldfinch" was a "Redbreast" class composite gunboat launched in 1889 and sold in 1907.
*HMS "Goldfinch" was an "Acorn" class destroyer launched in 1910. She was wrecked on Start Point, Sanday Island, Orkneys on 1915-02-18, and subsequently broken for scrap in April 1919.

hore establishment

HMS "Goldfinch" was the name given to Ta' Qali airfield in Malta when it was transferred to the Fleet Air Arm on 1945-04-01 for use as a Fleet Requirements Unit.

References

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