HMS Chiddingfold or HMS Badsworth, class Hunt II

You can make one of class "Hunt II" destroyer escorts: HMS Chiddingfold or HMS Badsworth.

Historical information

HMS Badsworth (L03) was an escort destroyer of the Type II Hunt class. The Royal Navy ordered Badsworth‍ 's construction three months after the outbreak of the Second World War. After a successful Warship Week national savings campaign in March 1942, Badsworth was adopted by the civil community of Batley, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The ship was named after a fox-hunt in Yorkshire.

INS Ganga (D94) was a Type II Hunt-class destroyer of the Indian Navy. She was leased from the Royal Navy in 1952, where she served in World War II as HMS Chiddingfold (L31). Chiddingfold was ordered on 4 September 1939 under the 1939 War Emergency Build Programme. She was commissioned around October 1941.

She earned battle honours in World War II for Norway, 1941 and English Channel, 1945.

Following the war, she was reduced to Reserve status early in 1946 and laid-up on 25 March 1946. In 1950 she was transferred to the Reserve Fleet at Harwich and remained there until 1952 when she was towed to Liverpool for a refit.