HMS ''Burslem'' was a
Hunt-class minesweeper of the
Royal Navy from
World War I. She was originally to be named ''Blakeney'', but this was changed to avoid any conflict between the vessel name and the
coastal location of the same name in Norfolk, instead the ship was named after
Burslem, a town in
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
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Hunt-class minesweepers (1916)
Royal Navy ship names
1918 ships
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