High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Bicester (pennant number L34) was an escort destroyer of the Hunt Type II class. The Royal Navy ordered Bicester`s construction three months after the outbreak of the Second World War.Hawthorn Leslie Co. laid down her keel at their Tyne yard on 29 May 1940, as Admiralty Job Number J4210. The ship was named after a fox hunt in Oxfordshire.