High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Barrosa (D68) was a
later or 1943 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was
named after the Battle of Barrosa, which took place in 1811 between
British-Allied forces and France, and which ended in a French defeat.
Barrosa was built by John Brown & Company. She was launched on the
on 17 January 1945 and commissioned on 14 February 1947.