![]() ![]() USS Claxton (DD-140), commissioned as HMS Salisbury (I-52) on 5 Dec. 1942, breaching the drydock and destroying Campbeltown. ![]() Nazaire, France to destroy the only drydock on the Atlantic coast capable of accepting the German battleship Tirpitz the charge detonated on 29 Mar. 1940 fitted with a large demolition charge, Campbeltown rammed the Normandie Lock in St. USS Buchanan (DD-131), commissioned as HMS Campbeltown (I-42) on 9 Sep. 1943 and was sunk with the loss of all but four of the ship's company of 152. 1942 Beverley was torpedoed by U-188 on 11 Apr. USS Branch (DD-197), commissioned as HMS Beverley (H-64) on 8 Oct. 1940 wrecked while being towed for scrapping on 14 Jul. USS Bancroft (DD-256), commissioned as HMCS St Francis (I-93) on 24 Sep. USS Bailey (DD-269), commissioned as HMS Reading (G-71) on 26 Nov. USS Aulick (DD-258), commissioned as HMS Burnham (H-82) on 8 Oct. USS Abbot (DD-184), commissioned as HMS Charlestown (I-21) on 23 Sep. USS Aaron Ward (DD-132), commissioned as HMS Castleton (I-23) on 9 Sep. Destroyers Transferred to Great Britain as a Result of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement: The 50 Ships Including their Royal Navy Names, Pennant Numbers and Subsequent Disposition. ![]()
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