 HMS Boadicea was a B @-@ class destroyer built for the Royal Navy ( RN ) around 1930 . Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet , she was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1936 . Before her departure , the ship evacuated civilians from Spain during the beginning of the Spanish Civil War of 1936 – 1939 . Boadicea later spent considerable time in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean . She was part of the Royal Navy task force during the invasion of Normandy in 1944 . Boadicea was sunk by German aircraft on 26 November 1944 .
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