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Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Sloop
Class	Falmouth
Pennant	L 51 / U 51
Built by	Devonport dockyard (Plymouth, U.K.): Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd. (Scotstoun, Scotland)
Ordered
Laid down	14 Sep, 1931
Launched	11 Jun, 1932
Commissioned	22 Dec, 1932
End service
Loss position

History	Sold 3 June 1949. Commanding Officers: Capt. Robert Lionel Brooke Cunliffe, RN December 1937 - 6 October 1939 Capt. Robert John Shaw, MBE, RN 6 October 1939 – 20 June 1940 Capt. Sydney Keith Smyth, RN (retired) 20 June 1940 – 22 February 1941 Cdr. the Hon. Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin, RN (retired) 22 February 1941 – ca. early 1943 Lt.Cdr. Gerald MacClelland, RN ca. early 1943 - January 1944 DSC awarded on 1 January 1944 ??? Cdr. G.O. Slade, RN (retired) 6 March 1944 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List

Noteable events involving Milford include:

28 Mar, 1938
HMS Milford (Capt. R.L.B. Cunliffe, RN) anchored off Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and claimed the island for Britain.

HMS Milford (L 51 / U 51)