The Ships
| No | Name | Class | Service history |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | USS Craven (DD-70) | Caldwell | To Britain. Renamed HMS Lewes. Scuttled on October 12, 1945 |
| 02 | USS Conner (DD-72) | Caldwell | To Britain. Renamed HMS Leeds. Broken up in 1947 |
| 03 | USS Stockton (DD-73) | Caldwell | To Britain. Renamed HMS Ludlow. Sunk as target in 1945 |
| 04 | USS Wickes (DD-75) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Montgomery. Broken up in 1945 |
| 05 | USS Philip (DD-76) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Lancaster. Broken up in 1947 |
| 06 | USS Evans (DD-78) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Mansfield. Broken up in 1945 |
| 07 | USS Sigourney (DD-81) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Newport. Broken up in 1947 |
| 08 | USS Robinson (DD-88) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Newmarket. Broken up in 1945 |
| 09 | USS Ringgold (DD-89) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Newark. Broken up in 1947 |
| 10 | USS Fairfax (DD-93) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Richmond. To USSR in 1944. Renamed Zhivuchiy. Broken up in 1949 |
| 11 | USS Williams (DD-108) | Wickes | To Canada. Renamed HMCS St. Clair. Foundered in 1946 |
| 12 | USS Twiggs (DD-127) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Leamington. To USSR in 1944. Renamed Zhguchiy. Broken up in 1951 |
| 13 | USS Buchanan (DD-131) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Campbeltown. Destroyed in the St. Nazaire Raid on March 28, 1942 |
| 14 | USS Aaron Ward (DD-132) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Castleton. Broken up in 1947 |
| 15 | USS Hale (DD-133) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Caldwell. Broken up in 1944 |
| 16 | USS Crowninshield (DD-134) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Chelsea. To USSR in 1944. Renamed Derzkiy. Broken up in 1949 |
| 17 | USS Tillman (DD-135) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Wells. Broken up in 1945 |
| 18 | USS Claxton (DD-140) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Salisbury. Broken up in 1944 |
| 19 | USS Yarnall (DD-143) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Lincoln. To Canada in 1942. Renamed HMCS Lincoln. To USSR in 1944. Renamed Druzhny. Broken up in 1952. |
| 20 | USS Thatcher (DD-162) | Wickes | To Canada. Renamed HMCS Niagara. Broken up on 1946 |
| 21 | USS Cowell (DD-167) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Brighton. To USSR in 1944. Renamed Zharkiy. Returned to Britain in 1949 and broken up. |
| 22 | USS Maddox (DD-168) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Georgetown. To USSR in 1944. Renamed Doblestny. Broken up in 1949 |
| 23 | USS Foote (DD-169) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Roxborough. To USSR in 1944. Renamed Zhostkiy. Returned to Britain in 1949 and broken up in 1952 |
| 24 | USS Kalk (DD-170) | Wickes | To Canada. Renamed HMCS Hamilton. Broken up in 1945 |
| 25 | USS Mackenzie (DD-175) | Wickes | To Canada. Renamed HMCS Annapolis. Broken up in 1945 |
| 26 | USS Hopewell (DD-181) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Bath. Sunk on August 19, 1941 by U-204 |
| 27 | USS Thomas (DD-182) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS St. Albans. To USSR in 1944. Renamed Dostoyny. Broken up in 1949 |
| 28 | USS Haraden (DD-183) | Wickes | Initially to Britain and then on to Canada. Renamed HMS Columbia then HMCS Columbia. Broken up in 1945 |
| 29 | USS Abbot (DD-184) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS Charlestown. Broken up in 1947 |
| 30 | USS Doran (DD-185) | Wickes | To Britain. Renamed HMS St. Marys. Broken up in 1945 |
| 31 | USS Satterlee (DD-190) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Belmont. Sunk by U-82 on January 31, 1942 |
| 32 | USS Mason (DD-191) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Broadwater. Sunk by U-101 on October 18, 1941 |
| 33 | USS Abel P Upshur (DD-193) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Clare. Broken up in 1945 |
| 34 | USS Hunt (DD-194) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Broadway. Broken up in 1947 |
| 35 | USS Welborn C Wood (DD-195) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Chesterfield. Broken up in 1947 |
| 36 | USS Branch (DD-197) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Beverley. Sunk by U-188 on April 11, 1943 |
| 37 | USS Herndon (DD-198) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Churchill. To USSR in 1944. Renamed Deyatelny. Sunk on January 16, 1945 in uncertain circumstances |
| 38 | USS McCook (DD-252) | Clemson | To Canada. Renamed HMCS St. Croix. Sunk by U-952 on September 20, 1943 |
| 39 | USS McCalla (DD-253) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Stanley. Sunk by U-574 on December 18, 1941 |
| 40 | USS Rodgers (DD-254) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Sherwood. Sunk as target in 1945 |
| 41 | USS Bancroft (DD-256) | Clemson | To Canada. Renamed HMCS St. Francis. Foundered in 1945 while en route to scrap yard. |
| 42 | USS Welles (DD-257) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Cameron. Damaged beyond repair in air raid at Portsmouth on December 5, 1940 |
| 43 | USS Aulick (DD-258) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Burnham. Broken up in 1947 |
| 44 | USS Laub (DD-263) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Burwell. Broken up in 1947 |
| 45 | USS McLanahan (DD-264) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Bradford. Broken up in 1946 |
| 46 | USS Edwards (DD-265) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Buxton. To Canada in 1943. Renamed HMCS Buxton. Broken up in 1946 |
| 47 | USS Shubrick (DD-268) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Ripley. Broken up in 1945 |
| 48 | USS Bailey (DD-269) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Reading. Broken up in 1945 |
| 49 | USS Swasey (DD-273) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Rockingham. Struck mine on September 27, 1944, and sunk while under tow |
| 50 | USS Meade (DD-274) | Clemson | To Britain. Renamed HMS Ramsey. Broken up in 1947 |
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Famous quotes containing the word ships:
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
“Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
their bright ironical names
like jests of kindness on a murderer’s mouth;”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)