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Books, Web Sites, and Associations => Helping researchers => Topic started by: tigercat on 02 February 2020 01:24:29 pm
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I'm doing some research with idea of possibly writing a book into all the Ships associated with Hertfordshire.
These fall into 2 categories :
1) ships adopted at warship week
2 ships named after places in Herts
So far in category 2 I have HMS Aldenham , HMS St Albans , HMT Hertfordshire.
Any information will be gratefully received
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In Category 1 = HMS Tweed ( adopted by Hatfield)
HMS Puckeridge ( = Watford)
Woodpecker ( = Bushey)
and I suspect that there are more
In Category 2 = HMS Gaddesdon (1917) and HMS Puttenham (1956)
I would check out the names of the Ton, Ham and Ley classes of the 1950s - they were all named after villages; likewise the Hunt class of WW1 (1917 - 19) - although supposedly named after Hunts, the names actually covered small towns