HMS Goldfinch

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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Four ships of the Royal Navy and one shore establishment have borne the name HMS Goldfinch, probably after the bird the European goldfinch.

Ships

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  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was an Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". launched in 1910. She was wrecked on Start Point, Sanday Island, Orkney on 18 February 1915, and subsequently broken for scrap in April 1919.

Shore establishment

  • HMS Goldfinch was the name given to Ta' Qali airfield in Malta when it was transferred to the Fleet Air Arm on 1 April 1945 for use as a Fleet Requirements Unit.

References

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